Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Fin de partie / Endgame

MS-HRC-SB-3-5

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Segment 1

Clov.

[1126] He isn't.

[1127] Pause

Hamm

[1128] You've forgotten the sex.

Clov

[1129] (vexed) [1130] x But he isn't finished. [1131] The
sex goes on at the end.

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Segment 2

[1132] Pause

Hamm

[1133] You haven't put on his ribbon.

Clov

[1134] (angrily) [1135] But he isn't finished, I
tell you!
[1136] First you finish your
dog, then you put on his ribbon.

[1137] Pause

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Segment 3

Hamm

[1138] Can he stand.

Clov

[1139] I don't know.

Hamm

[1140] Try. [1141] (He hands the dog to Clov
who places it on the ground.
)
[1142] Well?

Clov

[1143] Wait!

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Segment 4

[1144] He squats down and tries to get the
dog to stand on its 3 legs, fails
and lets it fall fall go.
[1145] The dog
falls on its side
.

Hamm

[1145|001] (impatiently) [1146] Well?

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Segment 5

Clov

[1147] He's standing.

Hamm

[1148] (groping for the dog). [1149] Where? [1150] Where is he?

[1151] Clov holds the dog in a standing position

Clov

[1152] There.

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