Consolation

after my own disaster:

… on the last day of August 1953 Beckett sighed with despair as he read his copy [of Watt], just as he blanched at the sight of the ‘awful magenta cover from the Merlin press’ with its frame of busy asterisks. His own copy (number 85 of the ordinary edition) shows that he found over eighty spelling and typographical errors, and that, on page nineteen, an entire sentence had been omitted.