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Exact textual stateFalse Start

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StateDraft 2 false startSurviving witnesses1TSS catalogue units1
Textual identity is not textual authority. “Catalogue primary/default” selects the default catalogue representation; it does not mean that this wording is automatically Howard’s most authoritative text.

Textual relationship

Branch Of Draft 2

Surviving manuscript evidence

The records below describe surviving physical typescripts, carbons, manuscript material and documentary catalogue evidence for this exact textual state. TSS numbers identify physical catalogue units; they are not story or draft IDs.

Draft 2 false start - single surviving Howard typescript pageHoward typescript
Extent1 pageCompletenessIncomplete

Physical extent: Single-page false start; breaks off in its opening sentence

TSS: 64660

A separate Howard false start beginning with the automobile crash and breaking off after the opening phrase.

Additional documentary notes

  • Single surviving page: The false start survives as a single page. (witness level)
  • False Start: First Cuts identifies this as a separate false start rather than part of the five surviving Draft 2 pages. (witness level)

Source: Hardboiled Manuscripts, Volume 1 v0.75, Editorial Notes p. 211; false start p. 227