Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Fin de partie / Endgame

MS-HRC-SB-3-5

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Hamm

[0717] Stop! [0718] (Clov stops the chair against close to the back wall. [0719] Hamm lays his hand against the wall.) [0721] Old wall! [0722] (Pause.) [0723] Beyond is the.... other hell. [0724] (Pause. [0725] Violently.) [0726] Nearer! [0727] Nearer! [0728] Up against!

Clov

[0729] Take away your hand. [0730] (Hamm withdraws his hand. [0731] Clov rams the chair against the wall.) [0732] There!

[0733] Hamm leans towards the wall, applies his ear to it.

Hamm

[0734] Do you hear? [0735] (He strikes the wall with his knuckles.) [0737] Do you hear? [0738] Hollow bricks! [0739] (He strikes again.) [0740] All that's hollow! [0741] (Pause. [0742] He straightens up. [0743] Violently.) [0744] That's enough! [0745] Back.

Clov

[0746] We haven't done the round.

Hamm

[0747] Bring me back to my place. [0748] (Clov pushes the chair back to the centre.) [0749] xxx Is that my place.

Clov

[0750] Yes, that's your place

Hamm

[0751] Am I right in the centre?

Clov

[0752] I'll measure it.

Hamm

[0753] Roughly! [0754] Roughly!

Clov

[0754|001] There (moving the chair slightly) [0755] There.

Hamm

[0756] I'm roughly in the centre?

Clov

[0757] I'd say so.

Hamm

[0758] You'd say so! [0759] Put me right in the centre!

[p. 24v] [p. 25r]

Clov

[0760] I'll go and get the chain.

Hamm

[0761] Approximately! [0762] Approximately! [0763] (Clov moves chair slightly.) [0764] Right in the centre!

Clov

[0765] There!

H

[0766] Pause

Hamm

[0767] I feel a little too much far to the left. [0768] (Clov moves chair slightly.) [0770] Now I feel a little too much far to the right. [0771] (As before.) [0772] I feel a little too far forward. [0773] (As before.) [0774] Now I feel a little too far back. [0775] (As before.) [0776] Don't stay there. (i.e. behind the chair) you make frighten me. scared.

[0777] Clov goes back to his place beside beside the chair.

Clov

[0778] If I could kill him I'd die happy.

[0779] Pause

Hamm

[0780] What's the weather like.

Clov

[0781] The same as usual.

Hamm

[0782] Look at the land.

Clov

[0783] I've looked at it.

Hamm

[0784] Through the glass.

Clov

[0785] No need of a the glass.

Hamm

[0786] Look at it through the glass.

Clov

[0787] I'll go and get the glass.

[0788] Exit Clov

[p. 25v]

DOODLE 27
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[p. 26r]

Hamm

[0789] No need of the glass!

[0790] Enter Clov, with the glass.

Clov

[0791] I'm back, with the glass. [0792] (He goes to the window right, looks up at it.) [0793] I need the ladder.

Hamm

[0794] Why. [0795] Have you xxx shrunk? [0796] (Exit Clov, with the glass.) [0797] I don't like that, I don't like that.

[0798] Enter Clov, with the ladder, but without the glass.

Clov

[0799] I have the ladder. [0800] (He sets down the ladder under window right, gets up on it, realizes he x has forgotten the glass, gets down.) [0801] I need the glass.

[0802] He goes towards the door.

Hamm

[0803] (violently) [0804] But you have the glass!

Clov

[0805] ([]halting, violently) [0806] No, I haven't the glass!

[0807] Exit Clov.

Hamm

[0808] This is hopeless.

[0809] Enter Clov, with the glass. [0810] He goes towards the ladder.

Clov

[0811] Whopee Whoopee! [0812] (He gets up on the ladder, raises the glass, [0813] drops it. [0814] Pause.) [0815] I did it on purpose! [0816] (He gets down, picks up the glass, turns it on the auditorium.) [0817] I see... a multitude... in a transport... of joy joyful throng. [0818] (Pause). [0819] That's what I call a telescope. [0820] (He lowers the glass, turns towards Hamm.) [0821] Well? [0822] Don't

[p. 26v]

[0894] Sweet... damn... all
Sweet damn all

[0836] Sweet damn -

DOODLE 28

[p. 27r]

[0822] we laugh?

Hamm

[0823] (after reflexion). [0824] I don't.

Clov

[0825] (after reflexion). [0826] Nor I. [0827] (He gets up on the ladder, turns the glass on the outer world [] without?.) [0828] Let's see... [0829] (He moves the gla looks, moving the glass.) [0830] Zero... (he looks)... zero... (he looks)... and zero

Hamm

[0834] Nothing stirs. [0835] All is -

Clov

[0836] Zer -

Hamm

[0837] (violently) [0838] Don't interrupt me! [0839] (Normal voice) [0840] All is... all is... all is what? [0841] (Violently) [0842] All is what?

Clov

[0843] What all is? [0844] In a word? [0845] Is that what you want to know? [0846] One moment. [0847] (He turns the glass on the without, looks, lowers the glass, turns towards Hamm.) [0848] Corpsed. [0849] (Pause) [0850] Well? [0851] Content?

Hamm

[0852] Look at the sea.

Clov

[0853] It's the same only more so.

Hamm

[0854] Look at the ocean!

[0855] Clov gets down, takes a few steps towards the window left, goes back for the ladder, sets it down under window left, gets up on it, turns the glass on the without, looks at length. [0856] He starts, lowers the glass, examines it, turns it again on the without

[p. 27v] [p. 28r]

Clov

[0857] Never seen anything like that!

Hamm

[0858] (anxious) [0859] What? [0860] A sail? [0861] A fin? [0862] Smoke?

Clov

[0863] (looking) [0864] The beacon is under water.

Hamm

[0866] Pah! [0867] xxx We knew that.

Clov

[0868] [](as before) [0869] There was a bit left.

Hamm

[0870] The base.

Clov

[0871] [](as before) [0872] Yes.

Hamm

[0873] And now.

Clov

[0874] (as before) [0875] All gone.

Hamm

[0876] No gulls.

Clov

[0877] (as before) [0878] Gulls!

Hamm

[0879] And the horizon? [0880] Nothing on the horizon?

Clov

[0881] (xxx lowering the glass, turning towards Hamm, exasperated). [0882] What the hell could there be on the horizon?

[0883] Pause

Hamm.

[0884] The waves, what about the waves?

Clov

[0885] The waves. [0886] (He turns the telescope on the waves.) [0887] Lead.

Hamm

[0888] And the sun?

Clov

[0889] (looking). [0890] Nix.

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