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[0029]
much later ... perhaps something ...
she had to say ... could that be it? ...
tiny little [⁁]thing ... hole in the bog ... never
any love ... spared that ... speechless
all her days ... stand waiting for the
bag ... [pay go] pay and go without a
word ... how she survived ... now this ...
[0029]
something she had to say ... could
that be it? ... something that would
say ... how it was ... could [-] ... what? ...
had been? ... yes ... something that would
say ... how it had been ... how she had
survived ... [lived] lived on ... to be sixty ...
[0029]
something she ... what? ... sixty-five? ... how she
lived on ... to be sixty-five ... something she
didn't know herself ... wouldn't know if she heard ...
then forgiven ... back in the field merciful God ...
[0030] back in the field ... could that be it? ...
bound to in the end ... out with it in the
end ... say enough everything go on long enough ...
[0030] then back in the field ... face buried in
the grass ... nothing but the larks ... pick it
up there ... get on with it from there ... another
few - ... what? [not that] ... [not] that? ...
nothing to do with that? ... all right ...
something else ... think of something else ...
long after ... not that either ... all right ...
something else again ... so on ... hit on
it in the end ... think everything go on
long enough ...
[0031] then back in the ... what? ...
not that? ... nothing to do with that? ...
nothing she could think? ... nothing she could ...
what? ... I? ... no ... no! ... [she] she could ... nothing she could ...
she ... tiny little girl ... parents unknown ...
hole in the bog ... [no] no love ... spared that ...
speechless all her days ...
[0034] keep on trying ...
trying to ... trying to what? ... all the time
body like gone ... only the face ... face and
[xxx] keep on ... what? ... the buzzing ...
yes ... all the time the buzzing ... so-called ...
the beam ... on and off ... painless ... so
far ... ah! ... so far ... keep on [⁁]trying ...
[0035] (curtain
starts slowly down) ... trying what ... no matter ...
keep on ... hit on it in the end ... back in
then back ... back in the field ... back in
the grass ... nothing but the larks ... pick it up -
[0036] Curtain full down. House dark. Voice
continues behind curtain, unintelligible,
10 seconds, ceases as house lights up.
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