Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
That Time / Cette fois

MS-UoR-1477-1

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[0040] always winter then always raining
year after year winter and rain
always going in somewhere to get out
of the cold & wet sopping in the old
green coat places you didn't have to
pay to get in like [xx] the Public Library
that was another time great thing
free culture in bad weather far
from home

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[0053] that time
when you went into the Public
Library out of the cold & wet was
that the time what was it [then]
you were never the same after
something to do with dust was
it then that last try nothing else
left to try

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[0053] sitting at the [table] big round
table with a lot of old ones reading
their books & not a sound to be
heard
[0056] only the leaves turning
and then something to do with dust
whole place suddenly full of dust

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[0056] opened your eyes and nothing but
dust nothing to be seen from floor
to ceiling only dust [xxx] and not
a sound only come & gone come
& gone no one come & gone in no
time

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[0030] never looked back after that

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[0030] turning-point that was a great
word with you before they dried
up [you squirming on the same
old spit ever since they lugged
you out never xx xxx dark]
and only
one the first & last that time

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[0030] you were curled up like a worm in
the [xxx in the xxx] slime in the dark
& [xxx] & they lugged you out & dried you off
& straightened you up that was
your turning-point never had
another after that never looked
back after that

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[0047] another [stop] that winter was in
the Post Office it [xxxe xxx xight]
pushed open the door like anyone
else and [took a seat] at the
table with the telegram forms &
the postal-order forms & the registered
letter forms

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[that time last what time]
no time but the one time

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[0056] come & gone come & gone come & gone
born & died in no born & died
[get me] born & died in no
time

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