Digital Manuscript ProjectKrapp's Last Tape / La Dernière Bande

[0211]
[place = overle af] recollect particularly, all white and starch, splendid [place = supralinear] incomparable
bosom, with a big black hooded pram. [place = overwritten] , [place = margin top] most funereal thing.[0212] Whenever I looked in her
direction she had her eyes on me.[0213] But [place = supralinear] one day when I was
foolish [place = supralinear] ingenuous enough
enough to
speak to her [place = supralinear] try and pat her on the bottom [Stet] she threatened to call a policeman.[0217] The
face she had. [place = overwritten] ![0218] Eyes[0219] like - moonstone. [place = overwritten] ![0220] (Pause.)
[0223] I was there
when - (Krapp switches off, broods, switches on again) - the
blind went down, one of those dirty brown roller affairs,
throwing a ball for a dog [place = supralinear] an Aberdeen [place = inline] fox terrier as chance would have it.[0224] I happened
to look up and there it was.[0225] All over, at last.[0226] I sat on for
a few moments with the ball in my hand and the dark barki dog
yapping [place = supralinear] elping and pawing at me.[0227] (Pause.)[0228] Moments.[0228|001] (Pause.)[0229] Her
moments. My moments.[0230] (Pause.)[0231] The dog's moments.[0232] (Pause.)
[0233] In
the end I held it out to him and he took it in his mouth, ge
gently.[0234] An [place = supralinear] small old [place = inline] , tennis ball, black and sodden, but unpunctured. [place = inline] , [⁁] [place = margin left] solid rubber ball. [⁁]
[0235] (Pause.)[0236] I wonder will that mean something some day.
[0236] [place = margin left] I shall feel it, in my hand, until my dying day.
[0246] This I
imagine is what I have chiefly to set down this evening,
against the day when my work will be done and perhaps no
place left in my memory, and no thankfulness, fot eh for the
mirav [place = overwritten] cle that - for the fire that set it alight that -
that...(hesitates)...for the fire that set it alight.
[0247] What
I [place = supralinear] suddenly saw then was [place = overwritten] [⁁] [place = margin left] was this, [⁁] that the assumption [place = supralinear] belief I had been going on all
my life, namely that -[0248] (Krapp switches off impatiently, winds
tape forx [place = overwritten] ward, switches on again)[0249] - granite rocks the foam flyin
flying up in the light of the beacon and the anemometer [place = supralinear] wind gauge spin-
ning like a propellor, clear to me at last that the dark I have [place = supralinear] had been fighting against [place = supralinear] too [⁁] [place = margin left] have always struggled to keep under x is in reality my most -
[0250] (Krapp
curses, switches off, winds tape forward, switches on again)[0251] -
- unshatterable association til [place = overwritten] until my dying day [place = margin left] ...(hesitates)...dissolution between storm of storm and night with the light of the understanding
and night
and -[0252] (Krapp curses louder, switches off, winds tape violently
forward, switches on again)[0253] - my face in her breasts and my
hand on her.[0254] We lay there without moving.[0255] But underneath us
all moved, and moved us, [place = margin left] gently up and down, and from side to side.
[0263] - upper lake, with the punt, bathed off the bank, then
pushed out into the stream and drifted.[0264] She lay stretched out
on the floorboards with her hands under her head and her eyes
closed.[0265] Sun blazing down, bit of a breeze, water nice and
lo [place = overwritten] ively.[0266] I noticed a scratch on her thigh and asked her how
she got [place = supralinear] came by it.[0267] Picking gooseberries, she said.I said again I
[0268] I said again I
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