for the down-stroke of the Roman N when suddenly too soon too soon a few more little scenes suddenly I cross it out good and deep Saint Andrew of the Black Sea and opener signifying again I’m subject to these whims my life again above in the light the sack stirs grows still again stirs again the light through the worn thread strains less white sharp sounds distant still but less it’s evening he crawls tiny out of the sack me again I’m there again the first is always me then the others what age my God fifty sixty eighty shrunken kneeling arse on heels hands on ground splayed like feet very clear picture thighs aching the arse rises the head drops touches the straw it’s preferable sound of sweeping the dog’s tail we want to go on home at last my eyes open still to light I see each halm sounds of hammers three or four at least hammers chisels crosses perhaps or some other ornament I crawl to the door raise my head yes I assure you peer through a chink and so I would go to the world’s end on my knees to the world’s end right round it on my knees arms forelegs eyes an inch from the ground I’d smell the world again my laughter in dry weather raises the dust on my knees up the gangways between decks with the emigrants homer mauve light of evening mauve wave among the streets the serotines abroad already we not yet not such fools I’m the brain of the two sounds distant still but less its the evening air does that one must understand these things and later drawing near that it’s only a creaking of wheels drawing near iron felly jolting on the stones the harvest perhaps coming home but the hooves in that case no matter there I am again how I last on my knees hands joined before my face thumb-tips before my nose finger-tips before the door my crown or vertex against the door one can see the attitude not knowing what to say whom to implore what to implore no matter it’s the attitude that counts it’s the intention how I last some day it will be night and all asleep we shall slip out the tail sweeps the straw it hasn’t all its wits mine now to think for us both here come the veils most dear from left and right they wipe us away then the rest the whole door away life above little scene I couldn’t have imagined it I couldn’t thump on skull no point in post mortems and then what then what we’ll try and see last words cut thrust a few words DO YOU LOVE ME CUNT no disappearance of Pim end of part two leaving only part three and last one can’t go on one goes on as before can one ever stop put a stop that’s more like it one can’t go on one can’t stop put a stop so Pim stops life above in the light he can’t give any more me permitting or thump on skull I can’t take any more it’s one or the other and what them him me I’ll ask him but first me when Pim stops what becomes of me but first the bodies glued together mine on the north good so much for the trunks the legs but the hands when Pim stops where are they the arms the hands what are they at his right way off on the right axis of the clavicle or cross Saint Andrew of the Volga mine about his shoulders his neck I can’t see good so much for the right arms and their hands I can’t see it’s not said in keeping and the others the left the arms we’re talking of our arms full stretch before us the hands together in the sack good so much for the four arms the four hands but how together touching simply or clasped clasped but how clasped as in the handshake no but his flat mine on top the crooked fingers slipped between his the nails against his palm it’s the position they have finally adopted clear picture of that good and parenthesis the vision suddenly too late a little late of how my injunctions by other means more humane my behests by a different set of signals quite different more humane more subtle from left hand to left hand in the sack nails and palm