Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
L'Innommable / The Unnamable
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Synoptic Sentence View: Sentence 1406

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L'Innommable Segment 1406, version 1 (MS-HRC-SB-3-10, f. 61v)

Et je naîtrais dans un dernier soupir, ou dans un de ces hoquets qui nuisent déparent hélas trop souvent à la solennité du trépas.

L'Innommable Segment 1406, version 2 (Minuit 1953, p. 113)

Et naîtrai enfin dans un dernier soupir, ou dans un de ces hoquets qui déparent hélas trop souvent la solennité du trépas.

The Unnamable Segment 1406, version 3 (MS-HRC-SB-5-9-2, f. 14r)

and with my latest breath be born at last, or to the sound of one of those hiccups which mar alas too often the solemnity of death.

The Unnamable Segment 1406, version 4 (MS-HRC-SB-5-10, f. 62r)

and with giving up the ghost be born at last, to the sound perhaps of one of those hiccups which mar alas too often the somlenmnity of the last trépas moments passing..

The Unnamable Segment 1406, version 5 (MS-WU-MSS008-3-71, f. 62r)

and giving up the ghost be born at last, to the sound perhaps of one of those hiccups which mar alas too often the solemnity of the passing.

The Unnamable Segment 1406, version 6 (Grove Press 1958, p. 76)

and giving up the ghost be born at last, to the sound perhaps of one of those hiccups which mar alas too often the solemnity of the passing.

L'Innommable Segment 1406, version 7 (Minuit 1971, p. 93)

Et naîtrai enfin dans un dernier soupir, ou dans un de ces hoquets qui déparent hélas trop souvent la solennité du trépas.