Digital Manuscript ProjectKrapp's Last Tape / La Dernière Bande

[0003] Front centre,[0004] sitting on a small
plain wooden chair at before a small
plain wooden table, X.[0004|001] About 70.
[0005] [place = supralinear] xx window from antiquated clothes. Coat and [0008]
trousers of different suits.Collar hanging open.[0004] [place = supralinear] Little [place = inline] Little wearish old man.
[0005] Red rusty baggy [place = supralinear] Rusty black narrow trousers, [⁁] [place = supralinear] too short for him.[0006] [place = supralinear] Black xxx
[place = margin left] Rusty black sleeveless waistcoat [place = supralinear] , 4 pockets.[0007] xxx xxx
[place = supralinear] Heavy silver watch & chain.[0008] Grimy white
shirt open at neck. No collar.
[0009] Surprising pair of yellow boots [place = supralinear] white cricket boots,
size ten, very narrow & pointed.
[0010] Pallid face.[0011] Purple nose.
[0014] Very near-sighted and[0015] hard of
hearing.[0014] No glasses.
[0016] Croaking voice,[0017] characterist characteristic accent.
[0019] On the table a tape-recorder and
a number of cardboard boxes
containing recorded tapes.
[0020] Table and immediately adjacent area
in strong light.[0021] Rest of stage in shadow
darkness.
[0036] A (reading from ledger, his nose down on it).
[0037] Box three Box ... thr [place = supralinear] rree ... spool ... five.
[0038] (He turns his head front without rai
and stares front.[0039] With relish.)[0040] Spool!
[0041] (Pause.)[0042] Spooool![0045] (He turns back to
table, starts peering & poking
at the boxes.)
[0049] (He opens it, peers at the spools it
contains.)[0050] Spool ... (He peers at
ledger, finds the entry.) Five. (He
peers at spools) Five ... five ...[0051] (He
takes out a spool, xx straightens up,
holds up the spool between finger
& thumb.)[0052] Box thrree, s [place = overwritten] Spoool five.
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