Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
L'Innommable / The Unnamable
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Synoptic Sentence View: Sentence 1570

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L'Innommable Segment 1570, version 1 (MS-HRC-SB-3-10, f. 68v)

Que N'ayant pu être Mahood, comme je l'aurais pu, j'ai à être Worm, comme je ne le pourrai pas.

L'Innommable Segment 1570, version 2 (Minuit 1953, p. 123)

Que, n'ayant pu être Mahood, comme je l'aurais pu, j'ai à être Worm, comme je ne le pourrai.

The Unnamable Segment 1570, version 3 (MS-HRC-SB-5-9-2, f. 19r)

That, since I couldn't be Mahood, as I might have been, I must be Worm, as I can't be.

The Unnamable Segment 1570, version 4 (MS-HRC-SB-5-10, f. 68r)

That since I couldn't be Mahood, as I might have been, I must be Worm, as I cannot be.

The Unnamable Segment 1570, version 5 (MS-WU-MSS008-3-71, f. 68r)

That since I couldn't be Mahood, as I might have been, I must be Worm, as I cannot be.

The Unnamable Segment 1570, version 6 (Grove Press 1958, p. 84)

That since I couldn't be Mahood, as I might have been, I must be Worm, as I cannot be.

L'Innommable Segment 1570, version 7 (Minuit 1971, p. 101)

Que, n'ayant pu être Mahood, comme je l'aurais pu, j'ai à être Worm, comme je ne le pourrai.