Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Fin de partie / Endgame

MS-OSU-RARE-29-6

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Segment 1

[1035] them again there'll be no wall any more. [1036] (Pause.)
[1037] Infinitive emptiness will be all around you, all the
resurrected dead of all the ages wouldn't fill it, and
there you'll bite like a little bit of grit in the middle
of the steppe.
[1038] (Pause.) [1039] Yes, one day you'll know what it is,
it's like, you'll be like me, except that uyou won't have
anyone with you, because you won't have had pity on anyone
and because there won't be anyone left to have pity on.

[1040] Pause.

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Segment 2

Clov

[1041] It's not certain. [1042] (Pause.) [1043] And there's something you forget.

Hamm

[1044] Ah?

Clov

[1045] I can't sit down.

Hamm

[1046] (impatiently). [1047] Well then you'll lie down there then, what the hell!
[1048] Or you'll come to a standstill, simply stop and stand still,
Tthe way you are now.
[1049] One day you'll say, I'm tired, I'll
stop.
[1050] What does the attitude matter?

[1051] Pause.

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Segment 3

Clov

[1052] So you all want me to leave you.

Hamm

[1053] Naturally.

Clov

[1054] Then I'll leave you.

Hamm

[1055] You can't leave us.

Clov

[1056] Then I won't leave you.

[1057] Pause.

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Segment 4

Hamm

[1058] Why don't you finish us? [1059] (Pause.) [1060] I'll give you the com-
bination of the larder if you promise to finish me.

Clov

[1061] I couldn't finish you.

Hamm

[1062] Then you won't finish me.

[1063] Pause.

Clov

[1064] I'll leave you, I have things to do.

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Segment 5

Hamm

[1065] Do you remember your arrival when you came here?

Clov

[1066] BO No. [1067] Too small, you told me.

Hamm

[1068] Do you remember your father?

Clov

[1069] (with lassitude wearily). [1070] Same answer. [1071] (Pause.) [1072] You've asked me
these questions millions of times.

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Segment 6

Hamm

[1073] I love the old questions. [1074] (With fervour.) [1075] Ah the old
questions, the old answers, hthere's nothing like them!

[1076] (Pause.) [1077] It was I was a father to you.

Clov

[1078] Yes. [1079] (He looks at Hamm fixedly.) [1080] You were that to me.

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