Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Fin de partie / Endgame

MS-HRC-SB-3-5

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Segment 1

[2133] takes a few steps towards window right.)
[2134] Under water! [2135] (He goes back for the
ladder
.)
[2136] What a fool I am! [2137] (He
drags the ladder towards window right
.)

[2138] Sometimes I wonder if I'm in my
right senses.

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Segment 2

[2139] Then it passes off and
I'm as intelligent as ever.
[2140] (He sets
down ladder under window right, gets
up on it, looks out of window.
[2141] He
turns towards Hamm
)
[2142] Any particular
sectors you're interested in?
[2143]
(Pause)
[2144] Or merely the whole thing?

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Segment 3

Hamm

[2145] (feebly) [2146] Whole thing.

Clov

[2147] The general effect? [2148] (Pause. [2149] He turns
towards the window
.)
[2150] Let's see.

[2151] He looks

Hamm

[2152] Clov!

Clov

[2153] (absorbed) [2154] Mmm.

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Segment 4

Hamm

[2155] Do you know what it is?

Clov

[2156] (as before) [2157] Mmm.

Hamm

[2158] I was never there. [2159] (Pause.) [2160] Clov!

Clov

[2161] (turning towards Hamm, exasperated).
[2162] What is it?

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Segment 5

Hamm

[2163] I was never there.

Clov

[2164] Lucky day!

[2165] He turns towards the window

Hamm

[2166] Absent, all the time. [2167] It all happened
without me.
[2168] I don't know what's

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