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In November 1930, shortly after Beckett returned from two years as exchange lecteur at the ENS in Paris to take up a teaching post at his alma mater Trinity College, Dublin, he gave an address in French to the Modern Languages Society in the form of a spoof lecture, which seems to have much amused the academic community.1 Much of the material, though, especially those portions of it which obliquely show Beckett struggling with his own...