Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Fin de partie / Endgame

MS-HRC-SB-3-5

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Segment 1

Nagg

[0515] (shocked) [0516] Oh!

Nell

[0517] Yes, yes, it's the most comic thing in
the world.
[0518] And we laugh, we laugh,
with a will, in the beginning.
[0519] But it's
always the same thing.
[0520] Yes, it's like the
funny story we hear are told too often, we
continue to find it funny, but we
don't laugh any more.
[0521] (Pause) [0522] Have
you anything more to say to me?

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Segment 2

Nagg

[0523] No.

Nell

[0524] Are you sure? [0525] (Pause.) [0526] Then I'll leave you.

Nagg

[0527] Do you not want your biscuit? [0528] (Pause)
[0529] I'll keep it for you. [0530] (Pause) [0531] I thought you
were going to leave me.

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Segment 3

Nell

[0532] I am going to leave you.

Nagg

[0533] Can you xxx give me a scratch before you do?

Nell

[0534] No. [0535] (Pause) [0536] Where.

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Segment 4

Nagg

[0537] Me back.

Nell

[0538] No. [0539] (Pause) [0540] Rub yourself against the rim.

Nagg

[0541] It's lower down. [0542] In the hollow.

Nell

[0543] What hollow?

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Segment 5

Nagg

[0544] The hollow! [0545] (Pause) [0546] Can you not?
[0547] (Pause.) [0548] Yesterday you scratched me there.

Nell

[0549] (elegiac). [0550] Ah yesterday!

Nagg

[0551] Can you not? [0552] (Pause) [0553] Would you not like
me to give you a scratch?
[0554] (Pause.)
[0555] Are you crying again?

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