upper lake with the punt

"-upper lake, with the punt, bathed off the bank, then pushed out into the stream and drifted. She lay on at the floorboards with her hands under her head and her eyes closed. Sun blazing down, bit of a breeze, water nice and lively. I notice a scratch on her tight and asked her how she came by it. Picking gooseberries, she said. I said again I thought it was hopeless and no good going on and she agreed, without opening her eyes... I asked her to look at me and after a few moments - after a few moments she did, but the eyes just slits, because of the glare. I bent over her to get them in the shadow and they opened....Let me in. We drifted in among the flags and struck. The way they went down, sighing, before the stem... I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. She lay there without moving. But under us all moved, and moved us, gently, up and down, and from side to side."
- samuel beckett

2004-11-23 | 6:25 p.m.
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