Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Fin de partie / Endgame

MS-HRC-SB-3-5

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Segment 1

Clov

[1887] Yes.

[1888] Pause

Hamm

[1889] Well...! [1890] (Pause.) [1891] It must
be very calm.
[1892] (Pause. [1893] Violently.)
[1894] I'm asking you is it very calm.

Clov

[1895] Yes.

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Segment 2

Hamm

[1896] It's because there are no more
navigators.
[1897] (Pause.) [1898] You
haven't much conversation all of
a sudden.
[1899] (Pause.) [1900] Anything
wrong?

Clov

[1901] I'm cold.

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Segment 3

Hamm

[1902] What month is it? [1903] (Pause.) [1904] Close
the window, we're going back.
[1905] (Clov
closes the window, gets down, pushes
the chair back to its place, remains
standing behind it, head bowed.

[1906] Don't stay there, you frighten me.
[1907] (Clov returns to his place beside the chair.)
[1908] Father! [1909] (Pause. [1910] Louder.) [1911] Father!
[1912] (Pause.) [1913] Go and see did he hear me.

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Segment 4

[1914] Clov goes to Nagg's bin, raises the lid,
stoops.
[1915] Unintelligible words. [1916] Clov
straightens up.

Clov.

[1917] Yes.

Hamm

[1918] Both times? calls.

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Segment 5

[1919] Clov stoops. [1920] Unintelligible words. [1921] Clov
straightens up.

Clov.

[1922] One only.

Hamm.

[1923] The first or the second?

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