Tom Stoppard Plays 2 by Tom Stoppard

Author:Tom Stoppard [Tom Stoppard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780571297573
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2012-12-08T16:00:00+00:00

End of flashback

(Smack!)

BEAUCHAMP: Missed him again! (Pause.) All right, don’t tell me then.

(BEAUCHAMP’s TAPE: snap crackle pop …)

Fascinating, isn’t it? Layer upon layer of what passes for silence, trapped from an empty room—no, trawled—no, like—no matter! I know that in this loop of tape there is some truth about how we live, Donner. These unheard sounds which are our silence stand as a metaphor—a correspondence between the limits of hearing and the limits of all knowledge: and whose silence is our hubbub?

DONNER: Are you going out, Beauchamp? I’d like to get on.

BEAUCHAMP: I have nothing to go out for.

DONNER: Get some fly-killer.

BEAUCHAMP: All right, if you’ll let me record a clean loop while I’m out. I don’t want you whistling and throwing things about when you can’t get the likeness right.

DONNER: I am getting it right.

BEAUCHAMP: Yes, she’s very good. May I make a small suggestion?

DONNER: No.

BEAUCHAMP: Her nipples were in fact——

DONNER: Get out!

BEAUCHAMP: Courtesy costs nothing. All right, I’ll see if Martello is in the pub, and I’ll be back in an hour or so.

(Changing tapes.)

There. Will you press the switch when I’m out of the door?

DONNER: Yes.

BEAUCHAMP: Promise?

DONNER: I promise, Beauchamp.

BEAUCHAMP: Poor Sophie. I think you’ve got her, Donner.

(BEAUCHAMP’s feet down the stairs. Open and close door. The fly starts to buzz. It comes close to the microphone and the sound is distorted slightly into a droning rhythm.)

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