Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Fin de partie / Endgame

MS-OSU-RARE-29-6

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Segment 1

[1777] Pause.

Clov

[1778] Keep on [place = supralinear] going, can't you, keep on [place = supralinear] going!

Hamm

[1779] That's all, I stopped there.

[1780] Pause.

Clov

[1781] Do you see how it goes on.

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Segment 2

Hamm

[1782] More or less.

Clov

[1783] Will it not be soon the end?

Hamm

[1784] I'm afraid it will.

Clov

[1785] Pah! You'll make [place = supralinear] up another.

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Segment 3

Hamm

[1786] I don't know. [1787] (Pause.) [1788] I feel rethaer [place = inline] rather exhausted [place = supralinear] drained.
[1789] (Pause.) [1790] The prl [place = overwritten] olonged creative effort. [1791] (Pause.) [1792] If I
could drag myself down to the sea!
[1793] I'd make a pillow of
sand for my head and the tide would come.

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Segment 4

Clov

[1794] There's no more tide.

[1795] Pause.

Hamm

[1796] Go and see is she dead.

[1797] V [place = overwritten] Clov goes to the bins, lifts [place = supralinear] the lid of Nell's lid, stoops down.
[1798] Pause.

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Segment 5

Clov

[1799] Looks like it.

[1800] He closes the lid, straightens up. [1801] Hamm raises his toque.
[1802] Pause. [1803] He puts it on again.

Hamm

[1804] (wih [place = overwritten] th his hand to his toque). [1805] And Nagg??

[1806] Clov lifts lid of Nagg's bin, stoops down. [1807] Pause.

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Segment 6

Clov

[1808] Doesn't look like it.

[1809] [place = inline] He closes lid, straightens up.

Hamm

[1810] (letting go his toque). [1811] What's he doing?

[1812] Clov lifts lid of Nagg's bin, stoops down. [1813] Pause.

Clov

[1814] H's [place = supralinear] He's c [place = overwritten] Crying.

[1815] He closes lid, straightens up.

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Segment 7

Hamm

[1816] Then he's living. [1817] (Pause.) [1818] Did you ever have an instant
of happiness?

Clov

[1819] Not to my knowledge.

[1820] Pause.

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Segment 8

Hamm

[1821] Bring me under the window. [1822] (Clov goes towards chair.)
[1823] I want to feel the light on my g [place = overwritten] face. [1824] (Clov pushes chair.)
[1825] Do you remember, in the beginning, when you turn [place = overwritten] ook me for
a turn?
[1826] You used to push with your hands [place = supralinear] hold the chair too high. [1827] At
evry step you nearly tilted [place = supralinear] tipped me out.
[1828] (With senile quaver.)
[1829] Ah great fun, we had, the two of us, great fun.

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