Fiona Shaw reads an extract from A Game Of Chess - The second part of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land:"My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me."Speak to me. Why do you never speak. Speak."What are you thinking of? What thinking? What?"I never know what you are thinking. Think."I think we are in rats' alleyWhere the dead men lost their bones."What is that noise?"The wind under the door."What is that noise now? What is the wind doing?"Nothing again nothing."Do"You know nothing? Do you see nothing? Do you remember"Nothing?"I rememberThose are pearls that were his eyes."Are you alive, or not? Is there nothing in your head?"ButO O O O that Shakespearean Rag —It's so elegantSo intelligent"What shall I do now? What shall I do?""I shall rush out as I am, and walk the street"With my hair down, so. What shall we do to-morrow?"What shall we ever do?"The hot water at ten.And if it rains, a closed car at four.And we shall play a game of chess,Pressing lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door.When Lil's husband got demobbed, I said —I didn't mince my words, I said to her myself,HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIMENow Albert's coming back, make yourself a bit smart.He'll want to know what you done with that money he gave youTo get yourself some teeth. He did, I was there.You have them all out, Lil, and get a nice set,He said, I swear, I can't bear to look at you.And no more can't I, I said, and think of poor Albert,He's been in the army four years, he wants a good time,And if you don't give it him, there's others will, I said.Oh is there, she said. Something o' that, I said.Then I'll know who to thank, she said, and give me a straight look.

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