MS-UoR-1227-7-7-1

[0270] of the sun. glare.[0271] I bent over her
to get them in the shadow and they
opened.[0272] (Pause.)[0276] We drifted into the ^{in among
a patch of} reeds and got stuck.[0277] The noise ^way they
made going ^went down under the blunt ^{xxx blunt} stem,
hissing.

[0279] I went down across her lay down
across ^her with my face in her breasts and
my hand on her.[0280] We lay there without
moving.[0281] But underneath us all moved,
and moved us, ^gently up and down, and to and
fro.
[0282] (Pause.)
[0283] Past midnight.[0284] Never knew -

[0285] (A switches off, sits brooding, [0286] feels ^fumbles in his
pockets, takes out an envelope, fumbles,
puts back the envelope, gets up and
goes front right into shadows. [0287] Ten
seconds.[0288] Noise Sound of bottle against
glass, then brief siphon. [0289] Then Ten
seconds. [0290] Bottle against glass alone.

[0291] Ten seconds Fifteen seconds.[0292] He comes
back front left into light, with an
unused tape in his hand, sits down,
takes tape off machine and lays it
on table, puts tape in his hand on
machine, takes envelope from
his pocket, consults back of it, switches on
and begins to record.

[0293] A Just been listening to that stupid
bastard I was 30 years ago, hard
to believe I was ever as bad as that.
[0293|001] xxx xxx with them and xxx
xxx xxx, xxx xx xxx
xxx[0296] The eyes she had!

[0297] (Broods,
realizes he is recording silence, switches
off. Broods.)[0299] Everything there, everything,
all the -[0300] (Realizes this is not being
recorded, switches on.)Everything
there, everything every bleeding thing,

[0301] Everything
there, everything every bleeding thing,
[0297] (Broods,
realizes he is recording silence, switches
off. Broods.)[0299] Everything there, everything,
all the -[0300] (Realizes this is not being
recorded, switches on.)