Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
L'Innommable / The Unnamable
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Synoptic Sentence View: Sentence 1667

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L'Innommable Segment 1667, version 1 (MS-HRC-SB-3-10, f. 73v)

Mais cela est naturellement impossible, puisque Worm ne pouvait savoir comment il était, ni qu'il était, c'est ainsi qu'ils veulent que je raisonne.

L'Innommable Segment 1667, version 2 (Minuit 1953, p. 131)

Mais cela est naturellement impossible, puisque Worm ne pouvait savoir comment il était, ni qui il était, c'est ainsi qu'ils veulent que je raisonne.

The Unnamable Segment 1667, version 3 (MS-HRC-SB-5-9-2, f. 23r)

But that is of course impossible, since Worm could not know what he was like, or who he was, that's the way they want me to reason.

The Unnamable Segment 1667, version 4 (MS-HRC-SB-5-10, f. 72r)

But that is of course impossible, since Worm could not know what he was like, or who he was, that's the way how they want me to reason.

The Unnamable Segment 1667, version 5 (MS-WU-MSS008-3-71, f. 72r)

But that is of course impossible, since Worm could not know what he was like, or who he was, that's how they want me to reason.

The Unnamable Segment 1667, version 6 (Grove Press 1958, p. 89)

But that is of course impossible, since Worm could not know what he was like, or who he was, that's how they want me to reason.

L'Innommable Segment 1667, version 7 (Minuit 1971, p. 107)

Mais cela est naturellement impossible, puisque Worm ne pouvait savoir comment il était, ni qui il était, c'est ainsi qu'ils veulent que je raisonne.