Samuel Beckett
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Synoptic Sentence View: Sentence 2178

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L'Innommable Segment 2178, loose jotting 1 (MS-HRC-SB-4-1, f. 31r)

Car il ne sait pas ce que c'est, que de perdre la boule.

L'Innommable Segment 2178, version 2 (MS-HRC-SB-4-1, f. 30v)

Mais il se rattrape vite, il arrange tout encore une fois, en faisant intervenir les célèbres notions de quantité, d'accoutumance, d'usure, et il en passe, ce qui lui permet, dans le souffle suivant, s'en déc nier la pertinence dans le cas de les décr déclarer inapplicables au cas dont qui lui est soumis dont il est saisi, car il ne sait pas ce que c'est que de perdre la boule. [2178|001] C'est un co-équipier précieux, artisan de xxx, artisan de xxx parsimonées et nulles, sa culotte lui tombe jusqu'au dessous du genou

L'Innommable Segment 2178, version 3 (Minuit 1953, p. 183)

Mais il se rattrape vite, il arrange tout encore une fois, en faisant intervenir les célèbres notions de quantité, d'accoutumance, d'usure, et il en passe, ce qui lui permet, dans le hoquet suivant, de les déclarer inapplicables au cas dont il est saisi, car il ne sait pas ce que c'est que de perdre, la boule.

The Unnamable Segment 2178, version 4 (MS-HRC-SB-5-9-3, f. 05r)

But he soon makes up for it, he xxx he puts all to rights again, invoking the celebrated notions of quantity, addiction, xxx wear, and others too numerous for him to mention, which and which he is thus enabled can thus in the next belch declare inapplicable to the cause before him, for he doesn't know what it is to be at his wit's end.

The Unnamable Segment 2178, version 5 (MS-HRC-SB-5-10, f. 102r)

But he soons makess up for it, he puts all to rights again, invoking the celebrated notions of quantity, habuit-formation,and wear [] and tear, and others too numerous for him to mention, and which he is thus in a position, in the the next belch, to decalre inapplicable to the case before him, for he doesn't know what it is to be at his there is no end to his wit. wit's end.

The Unnamable Segment 2178, version 6 (MS-WU-MSS008-3-71, f. 99r)

But he soon makes up for it, he puts all to rights again, invoking the celebrated notions of qxa quantity, habit-formation, wear and tear, and others too numerous for him to mention, and which he is thus in a position, in the next belch, to declare inapplicable to the case before him, for there is no end to his wits.

The Unnamable Segment 2178, version 7 (Grove Press 1958, p. 125)

But he soon makes up for it, he puts all to rights again, invoking the celebrated notions of quantity, habit-formation, wear and tear, and others too numerous for him to mention, and which he is thus in a position, in the next belch, to declare inapplicable to the case before him, for there is no end to his wits.

L'Innommable Segment 2178, version 8 (Minuit 1971, p. 149)

Mais il se rattrape vite, il arrange tout encore une fois, en faisant intervenir les célèbres notions de quantité, d'accoutumance, d'usure, et il en passe, ce qui lui permet, dans le hoquet suivant, de les déclarer inapplicables au cas dont il est saisi, car il ne sait pas ce que c'est que de perdre, la boule.