Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Fin de partie / Endgame

MS-OSU-RARE-29-6

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Segment 1

[0431] They laugh less heartily.

Nagg

[0432] On the road to Sedan. [0433] (They laugh still less heartily.)
[0435] Are you cold

Nell

[0436] Yes, very cold. [0437] And you?

Nagg

[0438] I'm freezing. [0439] (Pause.) [0440] Do you want to go in?

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Segment 2

Nell

[0441] Yes.

Nagg

[0442] Then go in. [0443] (Nell does not move.) [0444] Why don't you go in?

Nell

[0445] I don't know.

[0446] Pause.

Nagg

[0447] Has he changed[] your sawdust ?

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Segment 3

Nell

[0448] It isn't sawdust. [0449] (Pause. [0450] Wearily.) [0451] Can you not be a
little accurate, Nagg?

Nagg

[0452] Your sand then. [0453] It's not important.

Nell

[0454] It is important.

[0455] Pause.

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Segment 4

Nagg

[0456] It used to be sawdust.

Nell

[0457] It used to be.

Nagg

[0458] And now it's sand. [0459] (Pause.) [0460] From the shore. [0461] (Pause.) [0463] Now
it's sand he fetches from the shore.

Nell

[0464] Now it's sand.

Nagg

[0465] Has he changed yours ?

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Segment 5

Nell

[0466] No.

Nagg

[0467] Nor mine. [0468] (Pause.) [0469] I won't have it! [0470] (Pause. [0471] Holding up
the biscuit.
)
[0472] Do you want a bit?

Nell

[0473] No. [0474] (Pause.) [0475] Of what?

Nagg

[0476] Biscuit. [0477] I've kept you half. [0478] (He looks at the biscuit.
[0479] Proud.) [0480] Three quarters. [0481] For you. [0482] Here. [0483] (He proffers the
biscuit
.)
[0484] No? [0485] (Pause.) [0486] Do you not feel well?

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Segment 6

Hamm

[0487] ( wearily). [0488] Quiet, quiet, you're keeping me awake.
[0489] (Pause.) [0490] Talk softer. [0491] (Pause.) [0492] If I slept I might make love.
[0493] I'd go into the woods. [0494] My eyes would see...the sky, the
earth.
[0495] I'd run, run, [0497] they wouldn't catch me. [0498] (Pause.)
[0499] Nature! [0500] (Pause.) [0501] There's a drip of water in my head. [0502] (Pause.)
[0503] A heart, a heart in my head.

[0504] Pause.

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Segment 7

Nagg

[0505] (soft). [0506] Do you hear him? [0507] A heart in his head!

[0508] He chuckles cautiously.

Nell

[0509] One mustn't laugh at those things. [0510] Why [] must you

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