Samuel Beckett
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Segment 1

Hamm

[1398] Scoundrel! [1399] What made you beget
me?

Nagg

[1400] I didn't know.

Hamm

[1401] What? [1402] What didn't you know?

Nagg

[1403] That it'd be you. [1404] (Pause) [1405] You'll
give me a sugar-plum? lollipop.

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Segment 2

Hamm

[1406] After the audition.

Nagg

[1407] You swear?

Hamm

[1408] Yes.

Nagg

[1409] On what?

Nagg

[1410] My honour.

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Segment 3

[1411] Pause. [1412] They laugh.

Nagg

[1413] x Two.

Hamm

[1414] One

Nagg

[1415] One for me and one for -

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Segment 4

Hamm
[1416] One! [1417] Silence! [1418] (Pause) [1419] Where was
I? [1420] (Pause. [1421] Gloomy.) [1422] It's finished,
we're finished. [1423] (Pause.) [1424] It's nearly
finished. [1425] (Pause) [1426] There'll be no more
speech. [1427] (Pause.) [1428] A drop of water in
my head, ever since the fontanelles.

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Segment 5

[1429] (Stifled hilarity of Nagg.) [1430] It always
crashes on the same spot. [1431] (Pause.)
[1432] Perhaps it's a little vein. [1432|001] (Animated.)
[1433] (Pause.) [1434] xxx A little artery. [1435] (Pause.
[1436] More animated.) [1437] Come on, it's story
time, where was I? [1438] (Pause. [1439] Narrative
tone.) [1440] The man came crawling towards
me, on his belly. [1441] Marvellous Pale,

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    • Segment 4
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Fin de partie / Endgame © 2018 Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscript Project.
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