Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Malone meurt / Malone Dies
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Synoptic Sentence View: Sentence 1311

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Malone meurt Segment 1311, version 1 (MS-HRC-SB-7-4, f. 28r)

Si alors je ferme les yeux, les ferme vraiment, ce qui n'est pas dans le pouvoir comme ne le peuvent les autres, mais comme moi je le peux, car il y a des limites à mon impuissance, alors quelquefois, pas toujours, il me semble que mon lit se soulève et voyage vogue à travers les airs, au gré des remous, comme un fétu, et moi dedans.

Malone meurt Segment 1311, version 2 (Minuit 1951, p. 87)

Et si je ferme les yeux, les ferme vraiment, comme ne le peuvent les autres, mais comme moi je le peux, car il y a des limites à mon impuissance, alors quelquefois mon lit se soulève et vogue à travers les airs, au gré des remous, comme un fétu, et moi dedans.

Malone Dies Segment 1311, version 3 (MS-WU-MSS008-2-47, f. 63r)

And if I close my eyes, close them really, as others cannot, but as I can, for there are limits to my impotence, then sometimes my bexd is caught up into the air and tossed like a straw by the whirling eddies, and I in it.

Malone Dies Segment 1311, version 4 (MS-HRC-SB-4-3, f. 63r)

And if I close my eyes, close them really, as others cannot, but as I can, for there are limits to my impotence, then sometimes my bexd is caught up into the air and tossed like a straw by the whirling eddies, and I in it.

Malone Dies Segment 1311, version 5 (MS-UoR-1227-7-11-1, f. 63r)

And if I close my eyes, close them really, as others cannot, but as I can, for there are limits to my impotence, then sometimes my bexd is caught up into the air and tossed like a straw by the whirling eddies, and I in it.

Malone Dies Segment 1311, version 6 (Irish Writing, p. 31)

And if I close my eyes, close them really, as others cannot, but as I can, for there are limits to my impotence, then sometimes my bed is caught up into the air and tossed like a straw by the swirling eddies, and I in it.

Malone Dies Segment 1311, version 7 (Grove Press 1956, p. 47)

And if I close my eyes, close them really, as others cannot, but as I can, for there are limits to my impotence, then sometimes my bed is caught up into the air and tossed like a straw by the swirling eddies, and I in it.

Malone meurt Segment 1311, version 8 (Minuit 1971, p. 78)

Et si je ferme les yeux, les ferme vraiment, comme ne le peuvent les autres, mais comme moi je le peux, car il y a des limites à mon impuissance, alors quelquefois mon lit se soulève et vogue à travers les airs, au gré des remous, comme un fétu, et moi dedans.