Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
L'Innommable / The Unnamable
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Synoptic Sentence View: Sentence 449

Versions

L'Innommable Segment 449, version 1 (MS-HRC-SB-3-10, f. 14v)

Je me sens le dos droit, le cou droit et non tordu, et là-dessus la tête, bien assise, comme sur son bâtonnet la boule du bilboquet.

L'Innommable Segment 449, version 2 (Minuit 1953, p. 35)

Je me sens le dos droit, le cou droit et sans torsion et là-dessus la tête, bien assise, comme sur son bâtonnet la boule du bilboquet.

The Unnamable Segment 449, version 3 (MS-HRC-SB-5-9-1, f. 17r)

The chronology of the sentence versions relating to the first 23 pages of this manuscript differs from the chronology of the rest of the text. For a more detailed analysis: click here.

I feel my back straight, my neck rigid and untwisted, and up on top of it straight and free of twist, and up on top of it the head, like the ball of the cup-and-ball in its cup at the top of the stick.

The Unnamable Segment 449, version 4 (MS-HRC-SB-5-10, f. 18r)

The chronology of the sentence versions relating to the first 24 pages of this typescript differs from the chronology of the rest of the text. For a more detailed analysis: click here.

I feel my back straight, my necjk straight rigid erect [Stet] and untwisted free of twist and up on top of it the head, like the ball of the cup-and-ball in its cup[] socket cup at the op top at the end at the top of the little rod stick.

The Unnamable Segment 449, version 5 (MS-WU-MSS008-3-71, f. 17r)

I feel my back straight, my neck erect stiff and free of twist and up on top of it the head, like the ball of the cup-and-ball in its cup at the end of the stick.

The Unnamable Segment 449, version 6 (Grove Press 1958, p. 22)

I feel my back straight, my neck stiff and free of twist and up on top of it the head, like the ball of the cup-and-ball in its cup at the end of the stick.

L'Innommable Segment 449, version 7 (Minuit 1971, p. 29)

Je me sens le dos droit, le cou droit et sans torsion et là-dessus la tête, bien assise, comme sur son bâtonnet la boule du bilboquet.