Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Footfalls / Pas

MS-UoR-1552-6

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Segment 1

M
[0272] heard you respond. [0273] (Pause.) [0274] I heard you say Amen. [0275] (Pause.)
[0276] How could you have responded if you were not there?
[0277] (Pause.) [0278] How could you possibly have said Amen if, as
you claim, you were not there?
[0279] (Pause.) [0280] The love of
God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with
us all, now, and for evermore.
[0281] Amen. [0282] (Pause.) [0283] I heard

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Segment 2

[0283] you distinctly. [0284] (Pause. [0285] Resumes pacing. [0286] After four
steps halts without facing front.
[0287] Pause. [0288] Resumes
pacing, halts facing front at R.
[0289] Pause.) [0290] Amy. [0291] (Pause.
[0292] No louder.) [0293] Amy. [0294] (Pause.) [0295] Yes, Mother. [0296] (Pause.) [0297] Will
you never have done?
[0298] (Pause.) [0299] Will you never have done
...revolving it all.
[0300] (Pause.) [0301] It? [0302] (Pause.) [0303] It all.
[0304] (Pause.) [0305] In your poor mind. [0306] (Pause.) [0307] It all. [0308] (Pause.)
[0309] It all.

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Segment 3

[0310] Pause. [0311] Fade out on strip. [0312] All in darkness.

[0313] Pause.

[0314] Chime even a little fainter still. [0315] Pause for echoes.

[0316] Fade up to even a little less still on strip.

[0317] No trace of May.

[0318] Holdt ten seconds.

[0319] Fade out.

[0320] Curtain.

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