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Segment 1

Nagg

[0569] To cheer you up.

Nell

[0570] It's not funny.

Nagg

[0571] It has always made you laugh. [0572] (Pause.) [0573] The first time I
thought you'd die.

Nell

[0574] It was on the Lake of Como. [0575] (Pause.) [0576] One April afternoon.
[0577] (Pause.) [0578] Can you believe it?

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Segment 2

Nagg

[0579] What?

Nell

[0580] That we once went rowing on the the Lake of Como. [0581] (Pause.)
[0582] One April afternoon.

Nagg

[0583] We had got engaged the day before.

Nell

[0584] Engaged!

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Segment 3

Nagg

[0585] You were in such fits that we capsized. [0586] By right we should
have been drowned.

Nell

[0587] It was because I felt happy.

Nagg

[0588] It was not, it was not nonsense, nonsense, it was my story and nothing
else. [0588|001] Happy![⁁] [0589] Don't you laugh at it still? [0590] Every time [⁁]I tell it. [0590|001] Happy!

Nell

[0591] It was deep, deep. [0592] And you could see down to the bottom.
[0593] So white. [0594] So clean.

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Segment 4

Nagg
[0595] Let me tell it again. [0596] (Raconteur's voice.) [0597] An Englishman,
needing a pair of striped trousers in a hurry for the New Year
[⁁] rejoicings[⁁], goes to his tailor who takes his measure-
ments. [0598] (Voice of tailor.) [0599] "That's the lot , come back in
four days, I'll have it ready." [0600] Good. [0601] Four days later.

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Segment 5

[0602] Voice of tailor.) [0603] "So sorry, come back in a week, I've
made a mess of the seat." [0604] Good, that's all right, a neat seat
can be very ticklish." [0605] A week later. [0606] (Voice of tailor.) [0607] "Frightfully
sorry, come back in ten days, I've made a hash of the
crutch." [0608] Good, can't be helped, a snug crutch is always
[⁁] a teaser. [0609] Ten days later. [0610] (Voice of tailor.) [0611] "Dreadfully
sorry, come back in a fortnight, I've made a balls of the
fly." [0612] Good, at a pinch, a smart fly is a stiff proposition.

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Segment 6

[0613] (Pause. [0614] Normal voice.) [0615] I never told it worse. [0616] (Pause. [0617] Gloomy.)
[0618] I tell this story worse and worse. [0619] (Pause. [0620] Voice of raconteur.)
[0621] Well, to make it short, the bluebells are blowing and
he makes a balls of the buttonholes. [0622] (Voice of customer.) [0623] "God damn
it, Sir, no, it's indecent, there are limits! [0624] In six days,
do you hear me, six days, God made the world.

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Segment 7

[0625] Yes Sir,
no less Sir, the WORLD! [0626] And you are not bloody well capable
of making me a pair of trousers in three months!" [0627] (Voice of
tailor, scandalized.) [0628] "But, my dear Sir, [0629] my dear Sir, [0630] look - (dis-
dainful gesture, disgustedly) - at the world - (pause)-
and look - (loving gesture, proudly) - at my TROUSERS!"

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Addition 1
Happy!
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Addition 2
rejoicings[⁁]
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Addition 3
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Addition 4
can be very ticklish
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Addition 5
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Addition 6
a teaser
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Addition 7
bluebells are blowing
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Addition 8
makes a balls of
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Doodle 7
Categories:
Shape, Semicircle, Abstract shape
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Doodle 8
Categories:
Symbol, Letter
Transcription
  • Segments
  • Marginal Additions
  • Doodles
    • Doodle 7
    • Doodle 8

Fin de partie / Endgame © 2018 Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscript Project.
Editors: Dirk Van Hulle, Shane Weller and Vincent Neyt