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Belacqua ends up sitting on his own tombstone. The unnamed groundsman in "Draff" who tended to
Belacqua's grave is back, now named Mick Doyle and intending to rob the grave. Belacqua bets Doyle he'll find nothing there. Only stones are found.
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He is then struck by a stray golf ball, hit by Lord Haemo Gall of
Wormwood, an impotent giant, whose main concern is producing a male heir. Belacqua is kidnapped for this purpose, but the child turns out to be a girl.
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in 1933. The editor asked
Beckett for an additional story to help bulk up the physical book. Beckett agreed, and chose to place the new story after the existing ten, and did so by giving an afterlife to Belacqua.
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Beckett later (1962) gave the typescript to
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that was originally written in 1933. The Europa Press published a stand alone version of the story in 1935. This edition included 25 copies signed by Becket.
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Beckett International Foundation at the University of Reading. In addition to the story,
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After what seems like forty days, Belacqua is approached and ravaged by
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contains an introduction, extensive annotations (longer than the text), and the 1933 letters from
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His editor, Charles
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110:The story was finally published in 2014, by
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239:The Development of Samuel Beckett's Fiction
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551:Television
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341:Eleutheria
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171:2014-06-29
62:Background
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432:Footfalls
425:That Time
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541:Cascando
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506:Embers
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