Digital Manuscript ProjectThat Time / Cette fois
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Transcribed by: Francisca Rojas del Canto & James Little
Holding Library: University of Reading (MS 1477/10)
Abbreviated in the Manuscript Chronology as ET6.
Untitled typescript, with manuscript additions and corrections by Samuel Beckett,
of a revised version of That Time; undated. 30 x 21 cm. 6 leaves. At least two stages of revisions, with corrections
made in black ink, red ball-pen and type; examples of each are to be found in left
margin and in text. This typescript divides the text into the A, B and C monologues,
and presents them in an unfragmented block. Thus, A occupies ff. 1-2, B ff. 3-4 and
C ff. 5-6. Each leaf is headed 'Continuity', followed by the appropriate letter: A,
B, or C. [...]
In this important transitional draft, the sections of the monologues are divided using
lines in black ink which underscore the last line of each section, recalling the device
used in the columnar draft MS [1477]/3. In conjunction with this, there is a sequence
of numbers in the same ink in the left margin. These numbers are placed adjacent to
the appropriate section and refer to the position of that particular unit in the overall
A, B, C sequence. There is a secondary listing of numbers in red ink further to the
left in the same margin, which refers to the mass of calculations found in the lower
portion of f. 4.
That Time / Cette fois © 2022 Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscript Project.
Editors: James Little and Vincent Neyt