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[3369] (Inspecting the sky) [3371] Seven o'clock...[3372]eight o'clock...

[3373] That depends on the time of year. ^{it is.}

[3374] Is it evening?

[3377] It looks as if it was rising backwards.

[3378] Impossible.

[3379] Perhaps it's the dawn.

[3380] Don't talk nonsense ^{be a fool}. [3381] It's the west over there.

[3382] How do you know?

[3383] (Anguished) [3384] Is it evening?

[3385] Anyway it hasn't moved.

[3386] I tell you it's rising.

[3387] Why don't you answer?

[3388] Give us a chance! [3388|001] ^yu

[3389] (Reassuring) [3390] It's evening, Sir, it's evening,
night is drawing nigh. [3391] My friend here would have
me doubt it and I must confess he shook me for a
moment. [3392] But it is not for nothing I have
lived through this long day and I can assure you
it is very near the end of its repertory. [3393] (pause)
[3394] How do you feel now?

[3395] How much longer must we cart him round.

[3396] (They half release him, catch him again as
he falls)

[3397] We are not caryatides!

[3398] You were saying that your sight used to be good,
if I heard you right.

[3399|001] Yes, wonderfully good ^{Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful sight}.

[3401] (Irritably) [3402] Expand! [3403] Expand!

[3404] Let him alone. [3405] Can't you see he's thinking of
the days when he was happy? [3406] (pause) [3407] Memoria