Digital Manuscript ProjectNot I / Pas moi
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Transcribed by: Dirk Van Hulle & James Little
Holding Library: University of Reading (MS 1227/7/12/1)
Abbreviated in the Manuscript Chronology as EM1.
Untitled original manuscript of Not I. Black ink pen [...]. Dated 20 March 1972-21 April 1972. 27 x 21 cm. [5] leaves.
[...] The first date, Paris, 20 March 1972, appears at the top of the first page,
and the fifth page is dated Paris, 1 April 1972. Stage directions are given in the
top and left-hand margins of the first page. On the back of page five, labelled 6
by Beckett, under heading 'Addenda', three passages are added. These passages continue
on the back of page 4, labelled 7 by Beckett and again headed 'Addenda'. This page
contains passages labelled D to H, developing sections on, for example, the beam,
or the brain begging, and a note on the Auditor's movements. It is dated 21 April
1972.
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Editors: James Little and Vincent Neyt