MS-UoR-2935-1-4

Long last period

Some proof that he was not only not underground
but high above ground level
[0003] The day or nigt the nightlight went out
he was not left quite in the dark.[0004] For light
too of a kind came came through the clouded
panes of a small window set high in say
the northern wall.

[0005] Under this window on its
three legs stood a stool on which before he
used now & then to mount until he could no
more ^longer & look at at ^{to see} the empty sky.[0006] Why ^{on earth} he
never ^{did not} craned out to see what lay below was either
because the window would no longer open or
because he was determined ^would not to open it.

[0007] Perhaps
he knew only too well what lay below and
never wanted to see it again.[0008] So he would
simply stand then ^{high above the earth} on the ^unsteady stool with his hands
on ^against the wall to preserve his balance and look
at ^{see through the clouded pane} the empty ^cloudless sky.[0009] Its strange ^{xxx soft? [√]} light neither
daylight nor moonlight nor starlight xxx nor
any light he could remember from the days
& nights when day followed night & night day ^{vice versa}.

[0010] quenched by the gl glim at his bedside till
it went out x this faint light from without was ^thus his sole light
till it in its turn went out leaving him in quite in
the dark x to possibly his no little relief & possibly not
[0011] till it in its turn went out

[0041] To his ears too throughout this afterlife a clock
afar striking the hours and half hours.[0043] Its
strokes now clear as if carried by a wind
& now faint in the still air.[0044] Cries too
now faint now clear