MS-HRC-SB-3-5

[2037] that old Greek, and all life long you wait for that to make up a life ^{mount up to a life}. [2038] (Pause. [2039] He [tries] to resume, renounces. [2040] Pause.) [2041] Ah let's have done! [2042] (He whistles. [2043] Enter clov, with alarm-clock. [2044] He halts beside the chair.) [2045] What! [2046] Neither gone nor dead? ^{Neither gone nor dead}.

[2047] In spirit only!

[2048] Which?

[2049] Both.

[2050] Gone from me ^{Far from me} you'd be dead.

[2051] And vice versa.

[2053] Far from here it's death! [2054] (Pause.) [2055] And the rat?

[2056] He's got away.

[2057] He can't go far. [2058] (Pause. [2059] Anxious) [2060] Eh?

[2061] He doesn't need to go far.

[2063] Is it not time for my sedative?

[2064] Yes.

[2065] Ah! [2066] At last! [2067] Give it to me! Quick!

[2068] There's no more sedative.

[2070] (appalled) [2071] Good... [2072] (Pause.) [2073] No more sedative!

[2074] No more sedative. [2075] You'll never have any more sedative.

[2077] But the little round box. [2078] It was full!

[2079] Yes. But now it's empty.

[2083] (soft). [2084] What'll I do? [2085] (Pause. [2086] In a howl.) [2087] What'll I do? [2088] (Clov sees the picture, unhooks takes it down, turns ^stands it on its fra with its face to the wall, hangs up the alarm-clock in its place.) [2089] What are you doing.

[2090] ?

[2092] Look at the land.

[2093] Again?

[2094] Since it's calling to you.

[2095] Is your throat hurting you? [2096] (Pause.) [2097] Would you like a jujube?

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

[2103] Don't sing.

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

[2106] No.

[2107] Then how can it end?

[2108] You want it to end?

[2109] I want to sing.

[2110] I can't prevent you.

[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. [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? [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,

[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. [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] Or merely (Pause) [2144] Or merely the whole thing?

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

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

[2152] Clov!

[2153] (absorbed) [2154] Mmm.

[2155] Do you know what it is?

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

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

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

[2163] I was never there.

[2164] Lucky for you ^day!

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

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

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

[2175] Answer me first.

[2176] What?

[2177] Do you know what's happened?

[2178] Where? [2179] When?

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

[2185] What the hell does it matter?

[2187] I don't know.

[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.

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

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