Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Not I / Pas moi

MS-TCD-4664

MS. Pages: cover - 13r 13v - 18r 18v - backcover
[p. 18v]

You speak what you hear etc.
When you hear, Tell a story, you tell one. Not now.
(possibility of using →)


Other minds? ... oh, quantities.

DOODLE 37
[p. 19r]

not counting ... (rise of tears) ... not counting ... (Tears. End of tears. Pause. Tremulous.) Say 250.

Pause

(Still a little tremulous.) Satisfactory? (Pause. Do.) Oh very ... apparently ... on the whole.

Pause.

(Still a little tremulous.) And otherwise? (Pause. Do.) Fine ... apparently ... (breaking down again) ... same parts ... more or less ... agreement ... most subjects ...

(Tears. End of tears. Pause.)

(Normal voice.) In the world? - (Pause.) God knows. (Pause.) Pestilence & famine. (Irritated.) For God's sake!

Pause.

The incident? - (Long pause. Deep breath.) Well ... briefly ... . (Pause.)

[p. backcover]
MS. Pages: cover - 13r 13v - 18r 18v - backcover