Digital Manuscript ProjectKrapp's Last Tape / La Dernière Bande

[0106]
things [that will matter to me] worth [the recalling] having [20 years]
[xxx xxx xxx] in later life
when all the dust has - [this] when
all this dust has settled.
[0111] Miss [Williams] Old Miss [Williams] always sings
at this hour.[0112] But not this evening.
[0112|001] I hope nothing has happened to her.
[0126] Pause.
[0127] I have just listened to [one of the] old an old year,
tapes, passages at random.[0128] I did not
check it in the [catalogue] register, but it must
be at least ten or twelve years ago.
[0129] [I was living,
then with Alba][in xxx alley] [ADDITION]Addition on page
14vAt that time I was living off and on in ?
street.[0141] I must say I - (A stops
machine, broods [at length], starts machine
again.) - find [it a great h] [this] a
[great] help before embarking on a new ..
er .. review review.[0142] I find it hard to
believe that young man was I.[0143] Even the
voice is unfamiliar.[0145] Aspirations,[0147] resolutions.
[0149] To drink less, in particular.[0152] [He speaks]
of 17 hundred hours, out of the preceding
8000 odd, spent consumed on licensed premises
alone.[0155] Plans for a fuller sexual life.[0156] Last
illness of his father.[0156|001] References to his life's
work.[0164] Closing with a - (brief laugh) -
an appeal to Providence.
[0172] Pause of 10 seconds.[0173] Sound of a cork [drawn popping.[0174] Ten seconds.[0175] Second pop.
with]
[0176] Ten seconds. [0177] Third pop.[0178] Ten seconds.[0179] [ADDITION]Addition on page
14vBrief burst of song.
[0183] A comes back into light [from an un-
expected angle], [say front right],
sits down, resumes his pose, switches
on machine.[0184] back on the year that
[0184] back on the year that
[0172] Pause of 10 seconds.[0173] Sound of a cork [drawn popping.[0174] Ten seconds.[0175] Second pop.
with]
[0176] Ten seconds. [0177] Third pop.[0178] Ten seconds.[0179] [ADDITION]Addition on page
14vBrief burst of song.
[0183] A comes back into light [from an un-
expected angle], [say front right],
sits down, resumes his pose, switches
on machine.
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Krapp's Last Tape / La Dernière Bande © 2015 Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscript Project.
Editors: Dirk Van Hulle and Vincent Neyt