Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Fin de partie / Endgame

MS-OSU-RARE-29-6

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Segment 1

[0982|001] Pause.

Clov

[0982|002] What about your pee?

Hamm

[0982|003] I'm having it. [0982|004] It's nearly over. [0983] I'm having it.

Clov

[0984] Ah that's the spirit, that's the spirit.!

[0985] Pause.

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Segment 2

Hamm

[0986] (with ardour). [0987] Let's be gone go from here, the two of us! [0988] South!
[0989] You can make a raft [0990] and the currents will carry us away,
far away, to other... mammifers. mammals.

Clov

[0991] God forbid!

Hamm

[0992] Alone, I'll set out embark alone! [0993] Get working on that raft
illmmediately.
[0994] To-morrow I'll be gone.

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Segment 3

Clov

[0995] (hastening towards the door). [0996] I'll start straight away.

Hamm

[0997] Wait! [0998] (Clov halts.) [0999] Will there we sharks, do you think?

Clov

[1000] Sharks? [1000|001] If there are there will be. [1001] I don't know. [1002] If there still
are there will be.

[1003] He goes towards the door.

Hamm

[1004] Wait! [1005] (Clov halts.) [1006] It is not yet time for my sedative painkiller?

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Segment 4

Clov

[1007] (violently). [1008] No!

[1009] He goes towards the door.

Hamm

[1010] Wait! [1011] (Clov halts.) [1012] How are your eyes?

Clov

[1013] Bad.

Hamm

[1014] But you can see?

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Segment 5

Clov

[1015] Sufficiently.

Hamm

[1016] How are your legs?

Clov

[1017] Bad.

Hamm

[1018] But you can walk.

Clov

[1019] I come...and go.

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Segment 6

Hamm
[1020] In my house. [1021] (Pause. [1022] With prophetic relish.) [1023] One day you'll
be blind.
[1024] Like me. [1025] You'll be spitting ther sitting there,
a speck in the void, in the dark, for ever,
[1026] like me. [1027] (Pause.)
[1028] One day you'll say, I'm tired, I'll sit down, and you'll
go and sit down.
[1029] Then you'll say, I'm hungry, I'll get up
and get something to eat.
[1030] But you won't get up. [1031] You'll say,
I shouldn't hacve sat down, but since I have I'll sit on a
little longer, then I'll get up and get something to eat.

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Segment 7

[1032] But you won't get up and you won't get anything to eat.
[1033] (Pause.) [1034] You'll look at the wall for a little while, then you'll
say, I'll close my eyes, perhaps sleep a little sleep a little, after that
I'll feel better, and you'll close them.
[1035] And when you open

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