Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
L'Innommable / The Unnamable
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Synoptic Sentence View: Sentence 665

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L'Innommable Segment 665, version 1 (MS-HRC-SB-3-10, f. 25v)

Mais je l'accable je l'accable peut-être à tort, mon bon maître, il n'est peut-être pas comme moi seul comme moi, mon bon maître, mais associé à d'autres, pourvus tous d'une part de mon abjection, tous aussi bons que lui, voulant mon bien qu comme lui, mais ayant sur de ce dernier des conceptions divergentes.

L'Innommable Segment 665, version 2 (Minuit 1953, p. 53)

Mais je l'accable peut-être à tort, mon bon maître, il n'est peut-être pas seul comme moi, mon bon maître, pas libre comme moi, mais associé à d'autres, tous aussi bons que lui, voulant mon bien comme lui, mais ayant sur ce dernier des vues divergentes.

The Unnamable Segment 665, loose jotting 3 (MS-HRC-SB-5-9-1, f. 26v)

accabler

The Unnamable Segment 665, version 4 (MS-HRC-SB-5-9-1, f. 27r)

But perhaps I blacken But perhaps I blacken him unjustly, my good master, perhaps he is not solitary like me, not free like me, but associated with others, equally good, equalled equally concerned with my wellbeing, but differing as to its nature.

The Unnamable Segment 665, version 5 (MS-HRC-SB-5-10, f. 28r)

But perhaps I arraign blacken him unjustly, my good master, perhaps he is not solitary like me, not free like me, but associated with others, equally good, equally concerbned with my welfare, but differeing as to its nature.

The Unnamable Segment 665, version 6 (MS-WU-MSS008-3-71, f. 27r)

But perhaps I malign him unjustly, my good master, perhaps he is not solitary like me, not free like me, but associated with others, equla[a]lly good, equally concerned with my welfare, but differing as to its nature.

The Unnamable Segment 665, version 7 (Grove Press 1958, p. 35)

But perhaps I malign him unjustly, my good master, perhaps he is not solitary like me, not free like me, but associated with others, equally good, equally concerned with my welfare, but differing as to its nature.

L'Innommable Segment 665, version 8 (Minuit 1971, p. 44)

Mais je l'accable peut-être à tort, mon bon maître, il n'est peut-être pas seul comme moi, mon bon maître, pas libre comme moi, mais associé à d'autres, tous aussi bons que lui, voulant mon bien comme lui, mais ayant sur ce dernier des vues divergentes.