Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Fin de partie / Endgame

MS-HRC-SB-3-5

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Segment 1

[2263] With a bang! [2264] (Clov gets up on the
ladder, gets down again, looks
for the glass, finds it, picks it
up, gets up on the ladder, raises
the glass
.)
[2265] Of darkness! [2266] And me?
[2267] Did anyone ever forgive me?

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Segment 2

Clov

[2268] (lowering the glass, turning towards
Hamm
)
[2269] What? [2270] (Pause.) [2271] Is
it me you're referring to?

Hamm

[2272] (angrily) [2273] An aside, [2274] fool ape! [2275] Did
you never hear an aside before?

[2276] (Pause.) [2277] I'm warming up to my
last soliloquy

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Segment 3

Clov

[2278] I warn you. [2279] I'm going to look at
this filth since you insist.
[2280] But
it's the last time.
[2281] (He
turns the glass on the without)
[2282] Let's see.
[2283] (He moves the glass.) [2284] Nothing..... nothing...
good... good... nothing... goo -
[2285] (He starts, lowers the glass, examines
it, turns it again on the without.
[2286] Pause)
[2287] Bad luck to it!

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Segment 4

Hamm

[2288] More complications! [2289] (Clov gets down.)
[2290] Not an underplot, I hope.

[2291] Clov moves the ladder nearer the
window, gets up on it, turns
the glass on the without.
[2292] Pause.
[2292|001] .

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Segment 5

Clov.

[2321] (dismayed) [2322] Looks like a small
boy.

Hamm

[2322|001] (sarcastic) [2322|002] A small... boy!

Clov

[2351] I'll go and see. [2352] (He gets down,

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