Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Not I / Pas moi

MS-UoR-1227-7-12-3

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Segment 1

[0029] herself...wouldn't know if she heard...then forgiven...
merciful God...tender mercies...new every morning ...
[0030]back in the field...could that be it?...
bound to it in the end...out with it in the end...say every-
thing go on long enought...then back in the field...face
buried in the grass...nothing but the larks...pick it up
there...get on with it from there...another few - ...what?...
not that?...nothing to do with that?...[]nothing she could say?...all right...something
else...think of something else...long after...not that either..

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Segment 2

[0030]all right...something else again...so on...hit on it in
the sned end...think everytghing go on long enough...
[0031]then back
in the - ...what?...not that?...nothing to do with that?...
nothing she could think...nothing she - ...what?...I who?...what?...no...
no!...she...tiny little thing...before her time...parents unknown...hole in
the bog...no love...spared that...speechless all her days...[][B]
[0034]keep on trying...trying to...trying to what? not knowing what hoping what...not knowing what.. ..what she was trying...whole body
like gone...only the face...keep on - ...whqat?...the buzzing?..

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Segment 3

[0034]yes...all the time the buzzing...so-called!...the beam...on
and off...poking around...painless...so far...ha!...keep on trying...
[0035](curattain starts slowly down)...what?...trying what? not knowing what...no
matter...keep on...hit on it in the end...then back...back
in the field...face in the grass...nothing but the larks...
pick it up -

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Segment 4

[0036]Curtain full down. House dark. Voice continues behind curtain,
unintelligible, ten seconds, ceases as house lights up
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Addition 1
...tender mercies...new every morning
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Addition 2
nothing she could say?...
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Addition 3
who?...what?
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Addition 4
...before her time
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Addition 5
hoping what...not knowing what.. ..what she was trying
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Addition 6
poking around...
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