Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Fin de partie / Endgame

MS-HRC-SB-3-5

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Segment 1

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[2098] (Pause.) [2099] No? [2100] (Pause.) [2101] Pity.

[2102] He goes, xxx humming, towards
the window right, halts before, looks
up at it
.

Hamm

[2103] Don't sing.

Clov

[2104] (turning towards Hamm) [2105] One hasn't
the right to sing any more?

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Segment 2

Hamm

[2106] No.

Clov

[2107] Then how can it end?

Hamm

[2108] You want it to end?

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Segment 3

Clov

[2109] I want to sing.

Hamm

[2110] I can't prevent you.

[2111] Pause. [2112] Clov turns towards the
window
.

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Segment 4

Clov
[2113] What did I do with that ladder?
[2114] (He looks round for it.) [2115] You
didn't see that ladder?
[2116] (He )
looks, sees it.)
[2117] Ah, about time.
[2118] (He goes towards window left.)
[2119] Sometimes I wonder if I am I'm in
my right mind.

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Segment 5

[2120] Then it passes
over, I become lucid again and
I'm as lucid as before.
[2121] (He gets up
on the ladder, xx looks out of the
window
.)
[2122] Mother of God, [2123] she's under
water!
[2124] (He looks.) [2125] How can that be?

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Segment 6

[2126] (He advances his head, his hand above
his eyes
.)
[2127] It hasn't rained. [2128] (He
wipes the pane, looks.
[2129] Pause. [2130] He
xxx his forehead
.)
[2131] What a fool I am!
[2132] It's the wrong side. [2133] (He gets down,

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