Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Fin de partie / Endgame

MS-HRC-SB-3-5

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Segment 1

[0023] ashbins, removes the sheet which covers
them, folds it over his arm.
[0024] He lifts
one lid, stoops and looks into the bin.

[0025] Brief laugh. [0027] Same with other bin. [0026] He
closes lid.
[0027] Same with other bin. [0028] He
goes to Hamm, removes sheet which
covers him, folds it with the other over
his arm.

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Segment 2

[0029] In a dressing-gown, a stiff
toque on his head, a large blood-stained
handkerchief over his face, a whistle
hanging from his neck, a rug over his
knees, thick socks on his feet, Hamm
appears to sleep seems to be asleep.
[0030] Clove
Clov looks at him.

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Segment 3

[0031] Brief laugh. [0032] He
goes to the door, halts, turns, con-
templates the scene, turns towards
the auditorium.

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Segment 4

Clov
[0033] (fixed gaze, tonelessly). [0034] The end, it's
the end, it's coming to the end, perhaps
it's coming to the end.
[0035] (Pause) [0036] Grain on
grain, one by one, and one day,
suddenly, it's a heap, a little
heap, the impossible heap.
[0037] (Pause.)

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Segment 5

[0038] I can't be punished any more. [0039] (Pause)
[0040] I'll go now to my kitchen, ten feet by
ten feet by ten feet, and wait for him
to whistle me.
[0041] (Pause) [0042] Nice dimensions,
nice proportions, I'll lean upon on the table
and I'll look upon at the wall, and wait
for him to whistle me.

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Segment 6

[0043] He remains motionless a moment, [0044]then
goes out.
[0045] He comes back immediately,
goes to the window right, takes up the
ladder and carries it out.
[0046] Pause.
[0047] Hamm stirs. [0048] He yawns under the handker-
chief.
[0049] He takes the handker removes the
handkerchief from his face.
[0050] Very red face.
[0051] Black glasses.

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