Samuel Beckett
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Synoptic Sentence View: Sentence 678

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Molloy Segment 678, version 1 (MS-HRC-SB-4-6, f. 08r)

on ne peut rien inventer, n'invente rien, on croit inventer, s'échapper, on ne fait que balbutier le donné, des bribes de sa leçon d'un pensum, apprise sans le et oublié, savoir la vie sans larmes, telle qu'on la xxx parle.

Molloy Segment 678, version 2 (Minuit 1951, p. 46)

On n'invente rien, on croit inventer, s'échapper, on ne fait que balbutier sa leçon, des bribes d'un pensum appris et oublié, la vie sans larmes, telle qu'on la pleure.

Molloy Segment 678, version 3 (Minuit 1953, p. 46)

On n'invente rien, on croit inventer, s'échapper, on ne fait que balbutier sa leçon, des bribes d'un pensum appris et oublié, la vie sans larmes, telle qu'on la pleure.

Molloy Segment 678, version 4 (MS-WU-MSS008-3-49, f. 35r)

You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept.

Molloy Segment 678, version 5 (MS-BRML-NWWR-2-38, f. 22r)

You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum [?] one [17] day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept.

Molloy Segment 678, version 6 (MS-WU-MSS008-3-50-1, f. 35r)

You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept.

Molloy Segment 678, version 7 (Olympia 1955, p. 41)

You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept.

Molloy Segment 678, version 8 (Grove Press 1955, p. 41)

You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept.

Molloy Segment 678, version 9 (Olympia and Grove Press 1959, p. 38)

You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept.

Molloy Segment 678, version 10 (Minuit 1971, p. 49)

On n'invente rien, on croit inventer, s'échapper, on ne fait que balbutier sa leçon, des bribes d'un pensum appris et oublié, la vie sans larmes, telle qu'on la pleure.