Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Fin de partie / Endgame

MS-HRC-SB-3-5

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Segment 1

Hamm

[2400] (bitterly) [2401] A spit!

[2402] Pause

Clov

[2403] (fixed gaze, tonelessly). [2404] They
said to me, That's love, yes,
yes, believe me it is [] don't say it isn't, now you see.
how -

Hamm

[2405] Articulate!

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Segment 2

Clov
[2407] How easy it is. [2408] They said to me,
That's friendship, yes, yes, I
assure you it is make no mistake [ADDITION]Addition on page 73vmake no mistake ,
you've found it.
[2409] They said to me,
Here's the place, stop, raise your
head and look at all that splendour.

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Segment 3

[2410] That order! [2411] They said to me, Come
now, you're not a brute beast, think
over these things and you'll see how
all becomes clear.
[2412] And simple!
[2413] They said to me, All Yes, they are
dying of their wounds,
What
skilled attention they get, all
these wounded unto death.

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Segment 4

Hamm

[2414] Enough!

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Segment 5

Clov
[2415] (as before). [2416] I say to myself -
sometimes, Clov, you must
learn to suffer better than that if
you want them to weary of punishing
you - one day.
[2417] I say to myself -
sometimes, Clov, you must be there
better than that, if you want them
to let you go - one day.

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Segment 6

[2418] But I
feel too old, and too far, to be
able to form new habits.
[2419] G Good,
it'll never end, I'll never go.

[2420] (Pause.) [2421] Then suddenly, one day,
suddenly, the thing ends, changes,

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Addition 1
[] don't say it isn't
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