Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Footfalls / Pas

MS-UoR-1552-7

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Segment 1

[0037] (M halts facing front at R. [0038] Pause.)

M:

[0039] Would you like me to inject you again?

V:

[0040] Yes, but it is too soon.

[0041] (Pause.)

M:

[0042] Would you like me to change your position?

V:

[0043] Yes, but it is too soon.

[0044] (Pause.)

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Segment 2

M:

[0045] Straighten your pillows? [0046] (Pause.) [0047] Change your drawsheet?
[0048] (Pause.) [0049] Pass you the bedpan? [0050] (Pause.) [0051] The warming-pan?
[0052] (Pause.) [0053] Dress your sores? [0054] (Pause.) [0055] Sponge you down?
[0056] (Pause.) [0057] Moisten your poor lips? [0058] (Pause.) [0059] Pray with you?
[0060] (Pause.) [0061] For you?

[0062] (Pause.)

V:

[0063] Yes, but it is too soon.

[0064] (Pause.)

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Segment 3

M:

[0065] What age am I now?

V:

[0066] And I? [0067] (Pause. [0068] No louder.) [0069] And I?

M:

[0070] Ninety.

V:

[0071] So much?

M:

[0072] Eighty-nine, ninety.

V:

[0073] I had you late. [0074] (Pause.) [0075] In life. [0076] (Pause.) [0077] Forgive me again.
[0078] (Pause. [0079] No louder.) [0080] Forgive me again.

[0081] (Pause.)

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Segment 4

M:

[0082] Well?

V:

[0083] In your forties.

M:

[0084] So little?

V:

[0085] I'm afraid so. [0086] (Pause. [0087] M resumes pacing. [0088] After first turn at
L
.)
[0089] May. [0090] (Pause. [0091] No louder.) [0092] May.

M:

[0093] (Pacing.)[0094] Yes, Mother.

V:

[0095] Will you never have done? [0096] (Pause.) [0097] Will you never have done
. . . revolving it all?

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Segment 5

M:

[0098] (Pacing.)[0099] It?

V:

[0100] It all. [0101] (Pause.) [0102] In your poor mind. [0103] (Pause.) [0104] It all. [0105] (Pause.)
[0106] It all.

[0107] (M continues pacing. [0108] Five seconds. [0109] Fade out on strip.)

[0110] (All in darkness. [0111] Steps silent.)

[0112] (Long pause.)

[0113] (Chime a little fainter. [0114] Pause for echoes.)

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