beloved.
last. no. just beloved.
heavy. this place is heavy.
how you get so smart?
yes you are!
you don't go no more?
you so smart. tell me about your brothers.
can i help?
where you go in the morning?
what time you go?
i remember a woman who was mine and i remember bein snatched away from her.
i'm helpin make your bread.
where your diamonds?
on your ears.
tell me. tell me about your diamonds.
tell me. tell me about your diamonds.
your woman never fixed up your hair?
tell me 'bout her.
what happened to her?
can i have some more pudding?
i don't have nobody.
this place. i was looking for this place i could be in.
she told me. when i was at the bridge, she told me.
i walked here. a long, long, long, long way. nobody bring me.
i take the shoes! i take the dress! the shoe strings don't fit! i.
i want to go to sleep now.
nowhere. look at me do this!
now you! come on! come on!
in the dark my name is beloved.
dark. i'm small in that place. i'm like this here.
hot. nothing to breathe there. no room to move.
i wait; then i got on the bridge. i stay there in the dark, in the daytime, in the dark in the daytime. long time.
no. after. when i got out.
to see her face.
yes. sethe.
no. never. this is where i am.
don't tell me what to do? don't never tell me what to do!?
she's the one! she's the one i need! you can go but she's the one i have to have!
you have brothers or sisters?
sethe told us you been walking for eighteen years. where you been all that time?
you be surprised what you start remembering once you start talking.
i want you to touch me on the inside part and call me my name.
she don't love me like i love her. i don't love nobody but her.
i want you to touch me on the inside part.
you have to touch me. on the inside part. and you have to call me my name.
call me my name.
call me.
i'll go if you say it.
she likes him here.  make him go away.
it's like my dreams. i get two dreams, see. one, i exploding. buuooggg. the other i being swallowed. sometimes it's hard to keep my head on my neck, or these legs connected to my hips. one day i think i might wake up and i'll be in pieces.  maybe it's starting.
yes.
what?
what do these do?
can we try them?
i know it.
and she is mine.
i am not separate from her. there is no place where i stop. her face is my own and i want to be there in the place where her face is and to be looking at it too. a hot thing. in the beginning i could see her. i could not help her because the clouds were in the way. but i could see her. the shining in her ears. i look hard at her so she will know that the clouds are in the way. i cannot lose her again. i see her face which is mine. it is the face that was going to smile at me in the place where we crouched before i come up out of the blue water. sethe's is the face that left me. sethe's sees me in her and i see the smile. she is my face smiling at me. it is the face i lost. now we can join. a hot thing.
why did you leave me who am you?
where are the men without skin?
can they get in here?
what do you know about it? i sleep where i want.
breakfast ready? i'm hungry!
you don't sit with me!!
you don't sit with me!! i don't sit with people who leave me!
i had another dream last night. the dead man laying on top of me and i had nothing to eat. and the ghosts without skin stuck their fingers in me and said beloved in the dark and bitch in the light.
you gave me the bad dreams. you left me behind.
you're weren't nice to me. you didn't smile at me.
liar!
i want somethin' sweet.
not for me, you don't! you don't let me eat the pies.
i look just like her.
raaain!!! raaaain!