Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Fin de partie / Endgame

MS-HRC-SB-3-5

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Segment 1

Nell

[0556] I was trying.

[0557] Pause

Hamm

[0558] (soft). [0559] Perhaps it's a little vein.

[0560] Pause

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Segment 2

Nagg

[0561] What did he say?

Nell

[0562] Perhaps it's a little vein.

Nagg

[0563] What does that mean? [0564] (Pause.) [0565] That
means nothing.
[0566] (Pause.) [0567] I'll you the
story of the tailor.

Nell

[0568] Why

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Segment 3

Nagg

[0569] To cheer you up.

Nell

[0570] It's not funny.

Nagg

[0571] It always made you laugh. [0572] (Pause).
[0573] The first time I thought you'd die.

Nell

[0574] It was on the Lake of Como. [0575] (Pause.)
[0576] An One April afternoon. [0577] (Pause.) [0578] Can you
believe it?

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Segment 4

Nagg

[0579] What.

Nell

[0580] That we once went rowing on the Lake of
Como.
[0581] (Pause.) [0582] One April afternoon.

Nagg

[0583] We had got engaged the day We had got
engaged the day
before.

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