Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
L'Innommable / The Unnamable
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Synoptic Sentence View: Sentence 460

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L'Innommable Segment 460, version 1 (MS-HRC-SB-3-10, f. 15v)

Et n'étaient sans n'était la lointaine évidence de mes paumes, de mes plantes, de mes fesses, de mes genoux, dont je n'ai pas encore su me débarrasser, je me dirais donnerais volontiers la forme sinon la consistance d'un œuf, avec 2 trous quelque part pour m'empêcher d'éclater.

L'Innommable Segment 460, version 2 (Minuit 1953, p. 36)

Et sans la lointaine évidence de mes paumes, de mes plantes, dont je n'ai pas encore su me débarrasser, je me donnerais volontiers la forme, sinon la consistance, d'un œuf, avec deux trous n'importe où pour empêcher l'éclatement.

The Unnamable Segment 460, version 3 (MS-HRC-SB-5-9-1, f. 17r)

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And but for the distant evidence of my palms, my soles, I would gladly give myself the shape, if not the consistency, of an egg, with two holes no matter where to prevent it from bursting,

The Unnamable Segment 460, 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.

And but for the distant evidence of my palms, my sl soles,[] which I haven't yet been able to get rid of I would gladly give mtyself the shape, if not the consoistency, of an egg, with two holes no matter where to prevent it from bursting,

The Unnamable Segment 460, version 5 (MS-WU-MSS008-3-71, f. 17r)

And but were it not for the distant testimony of my palms, my soles, which I have not yet been able to quash, I would gladly give myself the shape, if not the consistency, of an egg, with two holes no matter where to prevent it from bursting,

The Unnamable Segment 460, version 6 (Grove Press 1958, p. 23)

And were it not for the distant testimony of my palms, my soles, which I have not yet been able to quash, I would gladly give myself the shape, if not the consistency, of an egg, with two holes no matter where to prevent it from bursting,

L'Innommable Segment 460, version 7 (Minuit 1971, p. 30)

Et sans la lointaine évidence de mes paumes, de mes plantes, dont je n'ai pas encore su me débarrasser, je me donnerais volontiers la forme, sinon la consistance, d'un œuf, avec deux trous n'importe où pour empêcher l'éclatement.