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!!) 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 (amplify)[✓]
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