© by Samuel Barclay Beckett (1906 - 1989)
The strokes now faint now clear as if...
Language: English
The strokes now faint now clear as if carried by the wind but not a breath and the cries [ ... ]
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- by Samuel Barclay Beckett (1906 - 1989), written 1986-1989, appears in Stirrings Still, London : John Calder, copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
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- by Rebecca Saunders (b. 1967), "Soliloquy", 2007 [ 6 voices ], Edition Peters
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