Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
L'Innommable / The Unnamable
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Synoptic Sentence View: Sentence 150

Versions

L'Innommable Segment 150, version 1 (Minuit 1953, p. 14)

Mais je dirai dès maintenant, pour plus de sûreté, que j'attends beaucoup de ces lumières, comme d'ailleurs de tout élément analogue d'incertitude vraisemblable, pour m'aider à continuer et éventuellement à conclure.

The Unnamable Segment 150, version 2 (MS-HRC-SB-5-9-1, f. 05r)

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But I shall remark without further delay, in order to be sure of doing so, that I am relying on these lights, as indeed on all similar sources of credible perplexity, to help me continue and perhaps even conclude.

The Unnamable Segment 150, version 3 (MS-HRC-SB-5-10, f. 04r)

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But I shall remark without further delay, in order to be sure of doing so, that I am counting relying on these lights, as indeed on all other similar sources of credible perplexity, to help me continue and perhaps even conclude.

The Unnamable Segment 150, version 4 (Spectrum, p. 6)

But I shall remark without further delay, in order to be sure of doing so, that I am relying on these lights, as indeed on all other similar sources of credible perplexity, to help me continue and perhaps even conclude.

The Unnamable Segment 150, version 5 (MS-WU-MSS008-3-71, f. 05r)

But I shall remark without further delay, in order to be sure of doing so, that I am remlying on these lights, as indeed on all other similar sources of credible perplexity, to help me continue and perhaps even conclude.

The Unnamable Segment 150, version 6 (Grove Press 1958, p. 8)

But I shall remark without further delay, in order to be sure of doing so, that I am relying on these lights, as indeed on all other similar sources of credible perplexity, to help me continue and perhaps even conclude.

L'Innommable Segment 150, version 7 (Minuit 1971, p. 12)

Mais je dirai dès maintenant, pour plus de sûreté, que j'attends beaucoup de ces lumières comme d'ailleurs de tout élément analogue d'incertitude vraisemblable pour m'aider à continuer et éventuellement à conclure.