Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Krapp's Last Tape / La Dernière Bande
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Krapp's Last Tape Segment 86, version 1 (MS-UoR-1227-7-7-1, f. 13r)

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 ... a ... a fuller ... a more ... more natural ... a more ... absorbing engrossing (lowering his voice) ... sexual life. (Pause.) [] Enthusiastic. 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 -

Krapp's Last Tape Segment 86, version 2 (MS-UoR-1227-7-7-1, f. 14r)

Thirty-seven today, sound apparently in wind and limb, apart from my old trouble, and intellectually, I have little doubt, at the peak of my powers, or thereabouts.

Krapp's Last Tape Segment 86, version 3 (MS-UoR-1227-7-7-1, f. 11v)

Thirty-seven today etc.

Krapp's Last Tape Segment 86, version 4 (MS-HRC-SB-4-2-1, f. 1r)

Thirty-seven today, sound apparently in wind (he he rimes this word with mind) and limb, apart from my old trouble, and intellectually I have little doubt at the peak of my powers, or thereabouts.

Krapp's Last Tape Segment 86, version 5 (MS-HRC-SB-4-2-2, f. 2r)

Thirty-seven today,and sound apparently in wind and limb,[] as a whistle, apart from the old trouble, and intellectually I have little doubt at the peak of my powers, or thereabouts.

Krapp's Last Tape Segment 86, version 6 (MS-HRC-SB-4-2-3, f. 2r)

Thirty-seven today, sound as a - a...(hesitates)...whistle, apart from my old trouble, and intellectually I have little dou now every reason to believe suspect at the½ the...(hesitates)...peak apogee crest of my powers - or thereabouts.

Krapp's Last Tape Segment 86, version 7 (MS-HRC-SB-4-2-4, f. 2r)

Thirty-nine today, sound as a...(hesitates)...whistle bell, apart from my old weakness, and intellecutually I have now every reason to suspect at the...(hesitates)...crest of my powers the wave - or½ or thereabouts.

Krapp's Last Tape Segment 86, version 8 (MS-UoR-1659, f. 2r)

Thirty-nine today, sound as a bell, apart from my old weakness, and intellectually I have now every reason to suspect at the...(hesitates)... crest of the wave - or thereabouts.

Krapp's Last Tape Segment 86, version 9 (MS-HRC-SB-4-2-5, f. 2r)

Thirty-nine today, sound as a bell, apart from my old weakness, and intellectually I have now every reason to suspect at the...(hesitates)... crest of the wave - or thereabouts.

Krapp's Last Tape Segment 86, version 10 (MS-HRC-SB-4-2-7, f. 5r)

Thirty-nine today, sound as a bell, apart from my old weakness, and intellectually I have now ever reason to suspect at the...(hesitates) ...crest of the wave—or thereabouts.

Krapp's Last Tape Segment 86, version 11 (Faber and Faber 1959, p. 11)

Thirty-nine today, sound as a bell, apart from my old weakness, and intellectually I have now every reason to suspect at the...(hesitates)...crest of the wave - or thereabouts.

Krapp's Last Tape Segment 86, version 12 (MS-SYR-GP-95, f. 14r)

Thirty-nine today, sound as a bell, apart from my old weakness, and intellectually I have now every reason to suspect at the ... (hesitates) ... crest of the wave–or thereabouts.

La Dernière Bande Segment 86, version 13 (MS-HRC-SB-4-2-6, f. 3r)

Trente-neuf ans aujourd'hui, solide comme un pont, à part mon vieux point faible, et intellectuellement, j'ai maintenant tout lieu de le soupçonner, au...(il hésite)...à la crête de la vague - ou peu s'en faut.

La Dernière Bande Segment 86, version 14 (Les Lettres Nouvelles, p. 7)

Trente-neuf ans aujourd'hui, solide comme un pont, à part mon vieux point faible, et intellectuellement, j'ai maintenant tout lieu de le soupçonner, au... (il hésite) ...à la crête de la vague — ou peu s'en faut.

La Dernière Bande Segment 86, version 15 (Minuit 1959, p. 14)

Trente-neuf ans aujourd'hui, solide comme un pont, à part mon vieux point faible, et intellectuellement, j'ai maintenant tout lieu de le soupçonner, au... (il hésite) ...à la crête de la vague — ou peu s'en faut.

Krapp's Last Tape Segment 86, version 16 (MS-HRC-SB-5-4, f. 14r)

Thirty-nine today, sound as a bell, apart from my old weakness, and intellectually I have now every reason to suspect at the...(hesitates) ...crest of the wave - or thereabouts.