MS-HRC-SB-4-2-2

[0246] place left in my memory, and no thankfulness, for the
miracle that - ⁽pause) - fo^r the fire that set it alight.
[0247] What I saw then was that the assumption I had been going on
all my life, namely -[0248] (A switches off impatiently,
winds tapes forward, switches on again)[0249] - granite rocks the
foam flying up in the light of the beacon and the anemometer
spinning like a propellor, clear to me at last that ^the
da^rk I have ^{been fighting off all this time} is in reality my most -

[0247] What I saw then was that the assumption I had been going on
all my life, namely -[0248] (A switches off impatiently,
winds tapes forward, switches on again)[0249] - granite rocks the
foam flying up in the light of the beacon and the anemometer
spinning like a propellor, clear to me at last that ^the
da^rk I have ^{been fighting off all this time} is in reality my most -

[0250] (A curses, switches off, wind^s tape forward, switches on
again)[0251] - unshatterable association till my dying day of
storm and night with the light of the understanding and -
[0252] (A curses louder, switches off, winds tape ^violently for-
ward, switches on again)[0253] - my face in her brea^sts and my
hand on her.[0254] We lay there without moving.[0255] But underneath us
all moved, and move^d us, ^gently, up and down, and from side
to side.

[0256] Pause.
[0257] Past midnight.[0258] Never knew such a silence.
[0260] Pause.
[0261] Here I end this -
[0262] ^A switches off, winds tape back, switches on again.

[0263] - upper lake, with the punt, bathed off the bank, then
pushed out into the stream and drifted.[0264] She lay stretc^hed
out on the floorboards with her hands under her head and
her eyes closed.[0265] Sun blazing down, bit of a breeze,
and the water nice and lively.[0266] I noticed a scratch on her
thigh and asked her how she got it.[0267] Picking gooseberries,
she said.[0268] I said again I thought it was hopeless and no
good going on, and she agreed, without opening her eyes.

[0270] I asked her to look at me and after a few moments - (pause)
- after a few moments she did, but the eyes just slits,
because of the glare.[0271] I bent over her to get them in the
shadow and they opened.[0272] (Pause. [0273] Low.)[0274] Let me in.[0275] (Pause.)
[0276] We drifted in among the reeds and stuck.[0277] The way they bent,
sighing, before the stem.

[0279] I lay down across her with my
face in her brea^sts and my hand on her.[0280] We lay without mov-
ing.[0281] But underneath us all moved, and move^d us, [⁁] ^gently, up and down,
and from side to side.
[0282] Pause.
[0283] Past midnight.[0284] Never knew -

[0285] A switches off, ^broods, [0286] fumbles in his waistcoat
pockets, ta^kes out an o^ld envelope, fumbles, puts back the
envelope, looks at his watch, gets up and goes
backstage into darkness. [0287] Ten seconds. [0288] Sound of bottle
against glass, then brief siphon.

[0289] Ten seconds. [0290] Bottle
against glass alone. [0291] Fifteen seconds. He comes back front
left into light, with an unused tape in his hand, sits
down, takes tape off machine, lays it on table, puts the

[0292] He comes back front
left into light, with an unused tape in his hand, sits
down, takes tape off machine, lays it on table, puts the