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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.