Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Fin de partie / Endgame

MS-HRC-SB-3-5

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Segment 1

Hamm

[1772] Oh tiny.

Clov

[1773] He would have climbed the trees.

Hamm

[1774] All the little odd jobs.

Clov

[1775] And then he would have grown up.

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Segment 2

Hamm

[1776] Probably.

[1777] (Pause.)

Clov.

[1778] Keep on, can't you, keep on!

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Segment 3

Hamm

[1779] That's all, I stopped there.

[1780] Pause

Clov

[1781] Do you see how it goes on from there?

Hamm

[1782] More or less.

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Segment 4

Clov

[1783] Will it not soon be the end.

Hamm

[1784] I'm afraid it will.

Clov

[1785] Pah! You'll make another.

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Segment 5

Hamm

[1786] I don't know. [1787] (Pause.) [1788] I feel
rather exhausted [ADDITION]Addition on page 55vsucked dry
drained
.
[1789] (Pause.) [1790] The
prolonged creative effort.
[1791] (Pause.)
[1792] If I could only drag myself down
to the sea!
[1793] I'd make a pillow
of sand for my
head
and the tide would come.

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Segment 6

Clov

[1794] There's no more tide.

[1795] Pause

Hamm

[1796] Go and see is she dead.

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