MS-UoR-1227-7-7-1

[0106] things [that will matter to me] ^{worth [the recalling] having} [20 years]
[xxx xxx xxx] in later life
when all the dust has - [this] when
all this dust has settled.

[0107] [I try to
be the old man who one day perhaps will
listen to this] I close my eyes and try and
imagine them.
[0108] Pause.
[0110] Extraordinary silence [this evening] ^{this evening}. I
strain my ears and do not hear a sound.

[0111] ^{Miss [Williams] Old Miss [Williams] always sings
at this hour.}[0112] ^{But not this evening.}
[0112|001] ^{I hope nothing has happened to her.}
[0126] Pause.
[0127] I have just listened to [one of the] old ^{an old year,}
tapes, passages at random.[0128] I did not
check it in the [catalogue] ^register, but it must
be ^{at least} ten or twelve years ago.

[0129] [I was living
then with Alba], [in xxx alley] ^{[ADDITION]Addition on page 14vAt that time I was living off and on} in ?
street.[0141] I must say I - (A stops
machine, broods [at length], starts machine
again.) - find [it a great h] [this] a
[great] help before embarking on a new ..
er .. review review.[0142] I find it hard to
believe that young man was I.[0143] Even the
voice is unfamiliar.[0145] Aspirations,[0147] resolutions.

[0149] To drink less, in particular.[0152] [He speaks]
of 17 hundred hours, out of the preceding
8000 odd, spent ^consumed on licensed premises
alone.[0155] Plans for a fuller sexual life.[0156] Last
illness of his father.[0156|001] References to his life's
work.[0164] Closing with a - (brief laugh) -
an appeal to Providence.

[0165] ([Prolonged]
laugh.)[0166] What remains of all that
twaddle ^lumber,[0167] a girl in a shabby green
coat, on a railway-station platform?
[0169] Pause.
[0170] When I look -
[0171] A stops the machine, broods, gets up
and [walks] ^goes backstage into [the shadows].

[0172] Pause of 10 seconds.[0173] Sound of a cork [drawn
with] popping.[0174] Ten seconds.[0175] Second pop.
[0176] Ten seconds. [0177] Third pop.[0178] Ten seconds.[0179] ^{[ADDITION]Addition on page 14vBrief burst of song.}
[0183] A comes back into light [from an un-
expected angle], [say front right],
sits down, resumes his pose, switches
on machine.[0184] back on the year that

[0184] back on the year that
[0172] Pause of 10 seconds.[0173] Sound of a cork [drawn
with] popping.[0174] Ten seconds.[0175] Second pop.
[0176] Ten seconds. [0177] Third pop.[0178] Ten seconds.[0179] ^{[ADDITION]Addition on page 14vBrief burst of song.}
[0183] A comes back into light [from an un-
expected angle], [say front right],
sits down, resumes his pose, switches
on machine.