MS-UoR-1477-1

[0047] [⁁]^{that time in} the Post Office that was another
another refuge out of the cold
& wet that time in the Post Office
pushed open the door like anyone
else and made straight for the
table neither right nor left straight to the
long table with all the forms to fill

[0047] in and the ballpoint kindly
provided at the end of a chain sat
down and was taking a look round
for once before dozing away [0050] perhaps
just fear of attack or ^ejection
having clearly no business in
the place not to mention your personal
appearance & monopolizing into the bargain

[0050] ^space that could ill be spared a
look around then with some apprehension
at your fellow men & women thanking God
again bad & all as you were you
were not as they till it began to dawn
that for all the attention you were getting
you might as well not have been there at

[0050] all the eyes passing over you and going
through you as though you were so much
thin air never resting on you with the
usual abhorrence but passing by you or
over you or through you as though
you were so much thin air was that
the time or was that another time an
earlier time a later time

[0001]

[0057|001] 5 s [0057] Silence. [0057|002] Ten seconds. [0058] Breath just audible.
[0059] After 3 seconds eyes open.

[0001] The differentiation of A B C
as shades of the same shd.
be sufficiently conveyed
by diversity of source &
theme. If not it may be
indicated by selective
recording

DIRECTIONS

[0007] All in darkness except the Listener's face
spotlit about 8' above stage level
midstage off centre.

[0008] Old face & long flowing white hair as if
seen from above spread on a pillows .

[0009] The voices A B C are his own coming
to him from both sides & above (see note)
[0010] They relay one another without any break
in general flow except when silences
indicated