Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Fin de partie / Endgame

MS-HRC-SB-3-5

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Segment 1

[2168] happened. [2169] (Pause.) [2170] Do you know
what's happened?
[2171] (Pause.) [2172] Clov!

Clov

[2173] (turning towards Hamm, exasperated)
[2174] Do you want me to look at this
muckheap, yes or no?

Hamm

[2175] Answer me first.

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Segment 2

Clov

[2176] What?

Hamm

[2177] Do you know what's happened?

Clov

[2178] Where? [2179] When?

Hamm

[2180] (violently) [2181] When! [2182] What's happened!
[2183] Do you not understand? [2184] What has
happened?

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Segment 3

Clov

[2185] What the hell does it matter?

[2186] He turns towards the window.

Hamm

[2187] I don't know.

[2188] Pause. [2189] Clov turns towards Hamm.

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Segment 4

Clov

[2190] (harshly). [2191] When old Mother Pegg
asked you for oil for her lamp and
you told her to bugger off, you
knew what was happening then,
no?
[2192] (Pause.) [2193] You know what she
died of, Mother Pegg?
[2194] Of
darkness.

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Segment 5

Hamm

[2195] (feebly) [2196] I had none.

Clov

[2197] (as before.) [2198] Yes, you had.

[2199] Pause

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