Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Not I / Pas moi

MS-UoR-1227-7-12-6

MS. Pages: 01r - 05r 06r - 06v
[p. 06r]

[0034] matter..[0035](curtain starts down)..keep on..hit on it in the end..then back..gGod is love..[]tender mercies..new every morning..back in the field..April morning.. face in the grass..nothing but the larks..pick it up -

[0036] Curtain fully down. House dark. Voice continues behind curtain, 10 seconds unintelligible, 10 seconds, ceases as house lights up.

[0037] Note 1
Movement: this consists of simple sideways raising of hidden arms clear of sides and their falling back with if possible just audible thud of hands on thighs. It lessens with each recurrence till scarcely perceptible at third. There is just enough pause to contain it as MOUTH recovers from vehement refusal to relinquish third person.

[0038] Note 2
"Any": pronounce "anny".(for example)
baby pronounce babby
either pronounce eether


Buzzing
1. b..so called!..in the ears..though of course actually..
not in the ears at all..in the skull..dull roar in the skull..
and all the time this ray or beam

2. ..yes..all silent but for the b....so-called!..no part
3 ..yes ..all dead still but for the b.. so called..when suddenly
4 ..yes ..all the time the buzzing..so called..all that together..
5 ..yes ..all the time the buzzing ..dull roar like falls..and the beam
6 ..yes..all the time the buzzing.. dull roar..in the skull..and the beam
7 ..yes..all the time the buzzing..dull roar ..like falls..in the skull..and the beam

[p. 06v]

[0008] came & went - came & went
[0010] ? oh long after - sudden flash - she was being punished
[0011] offhand - when she had suffered
[0011] meant to be suffering.. ha!..
[0012] so like her..in a way..
[0021] lips moving..as of course till then she had not ..
[0033] now this..this..quicker




.Interruptions Inviting "I" 5
70 for 60 2
Tongue 2
Position (kneeling, lying) 2
tense (had been for was) 1
Nothing to do with (telling, thinking) 2
Girl for thing 1
buzzing 7
22 (?)[]



Buzzing
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