MS-UoR-1227-7-7-1

[0086] Tape. This day, being in the
third decade of the Ram,
I enter upon my 31^st
year, sound ^apparently in wind and
limb, apart from my old
trouble, and intellectually,
I have little doubt, at the
height ^peak of my powers.

[0086|001] (Pause.
With fervour.) May the all
all-merciful Providence -
(Pause. With fervour. ^Continues)

[0086|002] May
the star which shone on
my cradle in xxx Great
stood above my cradle ^bassinet in
North Great Georges Street
continue to burn, as heretofore,
in my breast and in my
labours.

[0086|003] (Pause. In a lower
voice.) In particular may I
be given the strength, in the
years coming years, to ...
(Hesitation. Finally, still lower.)
to drink less. (Pause.)^Solemnly.)

[0086|004] In the
past year ^{12 months} I spent, in l on licensed
premises alone, anything between ^from
seventeen and ^to nineteen hundred
hours. (Pause.) Nineteen Nineteen hundred
hours. (Pause.)

[0086|005] Oh I know, I know,
I have had these crises before, but
never ^{at no time} quite so acutely as today
this afternoon, sitting ^{lying on the grass,} in the park, in
the sun. (Pause.) What would help me
more than anything, I think, is a ...
fuller ... ^{[ADDITION]Addition on page 12va ... a fuller ... a more ... more natural ...
a more ... absorbing engrossing} (lowering his voice) ... sexual
life. (Pause.) [←] ^{[ADDITION]Addition on page 12vEnthusiastic. Intercourse!} with real partners.

[0086|006] (Pause.) These nineteen hundred hours,
for example, if ^{in the future} instead of having ^of
spent them bibul spending them
bibulating, I were to spend them -

[0171] A stops the machine, then gets remains
motionless a moment, then gets up