Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Fin de partie / Endgame

MS-HRC-SB-3-5

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Segment 1

Hamm

[1271] (gloomy) [1272] Then it's a day like any
other day.

Clov

[1273] As long as it lasts. [1274] (Pause) [1275] All
life long the same nonsense.

[1276] Pause.

Hamm

[1277] I can't leave you.

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Segment 2

Clov

[1278] I know. [1279] And you can't come after
me.

[1280] Pause

Hamm

[1281] If you leave me how will I know?

Clov

[1282] (briskly). [1282|001] That's easy. [1283] You whistle
me and if I don't come running
it means I've left you.

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Segment 3

[1284] xxx Pause

Hamm

[1285] You won't come and say some bid
me goodbye
.

Clov

[1286] Oh I don't think so.

[1287] Pause

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Segment 4

Hamm

[1288] But you might be merely dead in
your kitchen.

Clov

[1289] That'd xxx The result would
be the same.

Hamm

[1290] Yes, but how would I know if you
were merely dead in your kitchen?

Clov

[1291] Well... sooner or later I'd start
to stink.

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