Digital Manuscript ProjectNot I / Pas moi

Birth ... hole in bog - name forgotten - parents
unknown - premature - no love - waifs' home
Field ... aetat. 65 - picking cowslips to make a ball -
April morning - idly - stop & stare into space
- eye fixed on distant cowslip & going towards it
when all went out - fantasy of returning there -
lie down face in grass - nothing but the larks
insentience ... first total - doesn't know what position
she's in - only eyelids moving since ray
disappears - this questioned with memory
of field - then lips moving and whole
speaking apparatus - also eyes 100° - (mention
earlier!!) [place = margin left] cut - fear lest this extend to whole
frame unfounded so far -
buzzing .. so-called - not in ears but heart of skull -
preventing her from hearing - from thinking -
dull roar like falls - now regularly forgotten
in enumeration of woes
brain .. working from beginning - first thought -
next though always much later - gets
gradually out of hand - raving - flickering
around - snatching at straws - bringing
up past - preventing her from hearing -
the odd thought like the odd word - no
idea what she's thinking - flashes in the dark -
can't stop it [place = inline] (amplify) [place = margin left] [✓]
interruptions .. to propose 1st person "what? - who? - what? -
no - no!" (passim) - to remind of
buzzing (passim) - to correct age (bis) -
to deny she had to say [place = supralinear] tell anything [place = infralinear] (how reconcile with )
to deny she had to think anything
(bis)
to object to bog (1) [place = margin left] [✓]
beam ... from beginning - moon image - moon
denied - just part of punishment -
but painless - so far - same spot at
first [place = inline] (not explicitly stated [place = supralinear] made clear) then flickering
(analogy with thought) - ferreting -.
pain beginning [place = inline] (not made clear) [place = margin left] [✓]
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