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Stirrings Still / Soubresauts has a complicated genesis, and many different versions. Although the catalogue numbers reflect the chronology of versions, only the chronology of UoR MSS
2935/3/11,
2935/3/12,
2935/3/10 and
2935/3/9 differs slightly from the order suggested by the archive numbers, some documents (in
Stirrings Still / Soubresauts notably the 'Super Conquérant' Notebook, UoR MS 2934) contain more than one version of a particular passage. The versions in this document are not successive, since Beckett made alternate use of this notebook and loose sheets of paper. In the case of Beckett's penultimate text, the writing of the three sections that eventually became
Stirrings Still (sections 1, 2, and 3) was preceded by three abandoned sections. To distinguish them, the abandoned sections are identified by a zero preceding the number ('before
Stirrings Still', sections 01, 02, and 03).