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Thirty-nine today, sound as a bell, apart from my old weakness, and intellectually I have now every reason to suspect at the… [hesitates.] … crest of the wave - or thereabouts.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone. [Pause.] In a way. [Pause.] I love to get up and move about in it, then back to… [hesitates.] ...me. [Pause.] Krapp.
For full scene, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Beckett, Samuel, “Krapp’s Last Tape,” Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett, Faber & Faber, 2006, p. 216-217.
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