MS-HRC-SB-3-5

[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!

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

[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.

[0746] We haven't done the round.

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

[0750] Yes, that's your place

[0751] Am I right in the centre?

[0752] I'll measure it.

[0753] Roughly! [0754] Roughly!

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

[0756] I'm roughly in the centre?

[0757] I'd say so.

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

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

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

[0765] There!

[0766] Pause

[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.

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

[0780] What's the weather like.

[0781] The same as usual.

[0782] Look at the land.

[0783] I've looked at it.

[0784] Through the glass.

[0785] No need of a the glass.

[0786] Look at it through the glass.

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

[0789] No need of the glass!

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

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

[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.

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

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

[0808] This is hopeless.

[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

[0822] we laugh?

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

[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

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

[0836] Zer -

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

[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?

[0852] Look at the sea.

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

[0854] Look at the ocean!

[0857] Never seen anything like that!

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

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

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

^{[0868] [⁁](as before)} [0869] There was a bit left.

[0870] The base.

^{[0871] [⁁](as before)} [0872] Yes.

[0873] And now.

^{[0874] (as before)} [0875] All gone.

[0876] No gulls.

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

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

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

[0884] The waves, what about the waves?

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

[0888] And the sun?

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