Samuel Beckett
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L'Innommable / The Unnamable
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Synoptic Sentence View: Sentence 1933

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L'Innommable Segment 1933, version 1 (MS-HRC-SB-4-1, f. 10v)

Mais ces lumières qui se dressent, foncent, se décartent, foncent et s'éteignent en sifflant, rappelant le naja, c'est peut-être le moment de les jeter, dans la balance., pour qu'elle se penche, enfin.

L'Innommable Segment 1933, version 2 (Minuit 1953, p. 153)

Mais ces lumières, au pluriel, qui se dressent, s'enflent, foncent et s'éteignent en sifflant, rappelant le naja, c'est peut-être le moment de les jeter dans la balance, pour qu'elle penche, enfin.

The Unnamable Segment 1933, version 3 (MS-HRC-SB-5-9-2, f. 34r)

xx But these lights, in the plural, which rear aloft, give the xxxage of swell, xx sweep down xxx and go out hissing, recalling the naja, perhaps the moment has come to throw them into the balance and have done with this equipoise, at last.

The Unnamable Segment 1933, version 4 (MS-HRC-SB-5-10, f. 85r)

But these lights, in the plural, which rear aloft, swell, sweep down and going out hissing, reminding one of the naja, perhaps the moment has come to throw them into the balance and have done with this tedious equipoise, at last.

The Unnamable Segment 1933, version 5 (MS-WU-MSS008-3-71, f. 83r)

But these lights, in the plural, which rear aloft, wswell, sweep down and go out hissing, reminding one of the Naja naja, perhaps the moment has come to throw them into the balance and have done with this tedious equipoise, at last.

The Unnamable Segment 1933, version 6 (Grove Press 1958, p. 104)

But these lights, in the plural, which rear aloft, swell, sweep down and go out hissing, reminding one of the naja, perhaps the moment has come to throw them into the balance and have done with this tedious equipoise, at last.

L'Innommable Segment 1933, version 7 (Minuit 1971, p. 125)

Mais ces lumières, au pluriel, qui se dressent, s'enflent, foncent et s'éteignent en sifflant, rappelant le naja, c'est peut-être le moment de les jeter dans la balance, pour qu'elle penche, enfin.