Digital Manuscript ProjectStirrings Still / Soubresauts
[0003] The day or night the nightlight glim his light went out he was not left
in the dark.[0004] For light of a kind came then through the one
small window set high in say the eastern wall.[0005] Under it on stood a stool on which until he could no more
its three legshe he used now and then to mount to see the empty sky.
[0006] Why he
did not crane out to see what leay below was because the window
would not open or because he would not open it.[0007] Perhaps he knew
only too well what lay below and never wished did not wish to see it again.
[0008] So he would simply steand there high above the earth on the uhnsteady
stool with his hands flat against the wall and see through the
clouded pane the unclouded sky.
[0009] Its soft changeless light unlike
any light he could remember from the days and lnights when day
followed hard on night and grateful night on day vice versa.[0010] This light from
without then such as it was became his only light till it in its
turn went out and left him in the dark.[0011] Till it in its turn went out.
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Stirrings Still / Soubresauts © 2011 Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscript Project.
Editors: Dirk Van Hulle and Vincent Neyt