Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Fin de partie / Endgame

MS-HRC-SB-3-5

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Segment 1

[1203] the creatures, everything has to be
explained to them.

[1204] Enter Clov with the gaff

Clov

[1205] Here's your gaff. [1206] Stick it up.

[1207] He gives the gaff to Hamm who,
using it like a punt-pole, tries
to move his chair
.

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Segment 2

Hamm

[1208] Am I moving?

Clov

[1209] No.

[1210] Hamm throws down the gaff

Hamm

[1211] Go and get the oil-can.

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Segment 3

Clov

[1212] What for?

Hamm

[1213] To oil the castors.

Clov

[1214] I oiled them yesterday.

Hamm

[1215] Yesterday! [1216] What does that mean?
[1217] Yesterday!

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Segment 4

Clov

[1218] (violently) [1219] That means that bloody
awful day, long ago, before this bloody
awful day.
[1220] I use the words you
taught me.
[1221] If they don't mean
anything any more, teach me new
ones.
[1222] Or don't ask me to speak.

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Segment 5

[1223] Pause.

Hamm

[1224] I once knew a lunatic who thought
the end of the world had come.
[1225] He was painted
a painter pictures.
[1226] I was fond of him liked him well. [1227] I used
to go and see him, in the asylum.
[1228] I'd

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