Transcribed by: Dirk Van Hulle & Shane Weller

Holding Library: University of Reading (MS 1227/7/9/1)

abbreviated in the Manuscript Chronology as FLS

"Original manuscript of untitled opening page of draft of L'Innommable. Undated. One leaf, taken neatly from a broadlined exercise book. 21 x 17 cm. This draft begins 'Où maintenant?' and concludes 'je ne me tairai jamais. Jamais'. Written in dark blue ball-pen. Forty-six lines of text, covering a page and a half. Light to moderate corrections, the majority being complete deletions with a single instance of substitution. Beckett does not observe the lines of the paper; the text becomes increasingly densely packed as the draft develops to accommodate two or even three lines of script in the single line space. This section constitutes a slightly variant draft of the opening section of the published version of L'Innommable."

Bryden, Mary, Julian Garforth and Peter Mills (1998), Beckett at Reading: Catalogue of the Beckett Manuscript Collection at the University of Reading (Reading: Whiteknights Press and the Beckett International Foundation), p. 183

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