Digital Manuscript ProjectThat Time / Cette fois
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stock still alwayws stock still like that time on the stone or
that time in the dunes stretched out parallel in the sun gazing up
at the blue with the glider or eyes closed blue dark blue dark
stock still side by side picture float up and there you were
wherever it might be
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A8 [0041] huddled there on the dororstep in the old green greatcoat in the
plale sun with the nightbag needless on your knees not knowing
where you were little by little not knowing where you were or
when you were or what for place might have been uninhabited for
all you knew or cared so much the better like that time on the
stone where none ever came
B8 [0039] [0042] S stock still side by side in the sun then sink and vanish without
your having stirred any more than the two knobs on a dumbbell
except the eyelids and the lips every now and again to vow and
all around too all still all sides wherever it might be no stir
or sound only faintly the leaves in the little wood behind you
or the ears or the bent or the reeds as the case might be of man
no sight or sound
[0045] CB7or alone in the same the same scenes alone wherever they might be
making it up that way to keep going keep it going keep it out
on the stone for example alone on the end of the stone with the
wheat and the blue or on the towpath st
end the old yera old year couldn't never end stuck in December like time
could go no further earth no further that time in the Post Office E
all bustle Christmans bustle in off the street when no one was looking out
[0047] of the cold and wet pushed open the door like anyone esle and
straight for the table neither right nor left with all the forms
and the ballpoints at the end of on their chains sat down on the
first vacant seat and were taking a look round for a changee be-
fore dozing drowsing away
A9 [0046] [⁁]only alone the child on the stone in the middle of among the giant nettles with the
sun coming in where the wall had fallen down poring on his book
well on into the night
some moods till they'd all be out on the roads looking for you him
[or making up talk splitting himself up two or more talking to
himself that way being together that way] where none ever came
assault or ejection having clearly no business
in the place to say nothing of the personal scandalous [⁁]shocking appearance so a look
round for once at your fellow men and women thanking God for once again
bad and all as you were you were not as they till it began to dawn
that for all the attention reprobation you were getting you might as well not
[0050] have been there at all the eyes passing over you and going through
you as though you were so much thin air never once resting dwelling on you
with the wonted abhorrence but passing by you or over you or clean
through you like so much thin air was that the time or was that
another time an earlier time a later time
A10 [0049] eleven or twelve sitting in the ruin on the flat stone in the mid-
dle of among the nettles in the dark or moonlight muttering away now one
voice now another there was childhood for you till sitting there
on the doorstep in the pale sun you found yourself at it again not a curse for the
passers pausing to gape at the scandal huddled there in the sun
where it had no warrant clutching the nightbag drooling away out
loud and the white hair pouring out down from under the hat and so
sat on in that pale sun forgetting it all
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