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S1R,—Mr. Beckett was generously served by his re- viewer. However,

Julia Strachey is wrong when she calls Jacques Moran a sadistic clergyman. He is of the Catholic laity; he explicitly states on p. 130 that he is one of the lay faithful. She should beware, too, of treating All That Fall as an entirely new work. There is strong evidence that it is a reassemblage of material discarded from Watt, which was completed in 1945.—Yours faith- fully, GERARD KEENAN

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