Catastrophe Practice by Nicholas Mosley

Author:Nicholas Mosley
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2013-08-25T04:00:00+00:00

Anderson listens. Then he puts the slide under the microscope.

The voice continues.

— My arms so tight;

The bounds of hell —

Anderson puts his eye to the microscope.

On what seems to be the street-level at the very top of the structure a bright light comes on. (At this level there can be seen what look like the bottoms of buildings.)

On to this level there comes, from the right, a woman, Hortense. She wears shorts and a T-shirt and has a haversack on her back.

She looks over her shoulder apprehensively, as if someone has been following her.

Then she puts her haversack on the ground and stands with her back to the audience as if she were beside a road waiting for a lift.

Anderson looks up from his microscope. As he does this the light at the top of the structure becomes dim.

Hortense looks at the manhole, left.

Anderson stands. He pushes up, on its wire, the light that hangs above the microscope. As he does this, the manhole on the street closes. Hortense stares at it Then she comes to the front of the structure and looks over.

Then she goes to the manhole and tries to force her fingers into a crack to lift it up.

Anderson watches the audience.

Hortense goes to her haversack, opens it, and takes from it a frogman’s breathing apparatus, which she puts on.

Then she comes to the front edge of the top of the structure and looks over.

The light at street-level becomes watery. Anderson sits behind his table again and pulls down on its wire the light that hangs above the microscope. The cover of the manhole, behind Hortense, opens.

Hortense, through her frogman’s mask, stares at the audience.

After a time, from the darkness of the room, right, there comes the sound of flute music again — the sonata by Bach.

Anderson puts his eye to the microscope.

The light at street-level steadies and becomes clear.

Hortense goes to the manhole, the cover of which is now open, picks up her haversack, and still wearing her frogman’s apparatus, begins to climb down the ladder in the shaft on the left. When she reaches the first-floor level she puts an ear to the outside wall of the Moor’s room. From the darkness of the Moor’s room, left, there comes the sound of three loud thumps, or bangs, as if of some heavy object being hit against the floor.

The flute music stops.

Then there are three flashes as if of lightning, or gunfire, at the street-level above.

Hortense takes her ear away from the outer wall of the Moor’s room. She looks at the audience. Anderson looks up from his microscope.

The light at street-level becomes watery.

Hortense climbs on down the second ladder in the shaft on the left. When she comes to the lower level she puts down her haversack and rummages inside it.

Anderson gets up from the table and tip-toes to the wall of his room, left Outside this, Hortense has taken from her haversack what appears to be an electric drill. Then quickly, in mime, she seems to drill four holes in the outside wall of Anderson’s room.

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