Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Fin de partie / Endgame

MS-OSU-RARE-29-6

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Segment 1

Clov

[2153] (absorbed). [2154] Mmm.

Hamm

[2155] Do you know what it is?

Clov

[2156] ' [place = overwritten] (as before). [2157] Mmm.

Hamm

[2158] O [place = overwritten] I was never there. [2159] (Pause.) [2160] Clov!

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Segment 2

Clov

[2161] (turning towards Hamm, exasperated). [2162] What is it?

Hamm

[2163] I was never there.

Clov

[2164] Lucky for you.

[2165] He turns towards window.

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Segment 3

Hamm

[2166] Absent, always. [2167] It [place = supralinear] xx all happened without me. [2168] I don't know
what's happened.
[2169] (Pause.) [2170] Do you know what's happened?
[2171] (Pause.) [2172] Clov!

Clov

[2173] (turning towards Hamm, exasperated). [2174] Do you want me to
look at this muckheap, yes or no?

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Segment 4

Hamm

[2175] Answer me first.

Clov

[2176] What?

Hamm

[2177] Do you know what's happened?

Clov

[2178] When? [2179] Where?

Hamm

[2180] (violently). [2181] When! [2182] What's happened! [2183] Do you not under-
stand?
[2184] What has happened?

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Segment 5

Clov

[2185] What the hell does it matter?

[2186] He turns towards the window.

Hamm

[2187] I don't know.

[2188] Pause. [2189] Clov turns towards Hamm.

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Segment 6

Clov

[2190] (harshly). [2191] When old Mother Pegg asked you for oil for
her lamp and you sent her packing [place = margin left] told her to go hell , you knew what was
happening then, no?
[2192] (Pause.) [2193] You know what she died of,
Mother Pegg?
[2194] Of darkness.

Hamm

[2195] (feebly). [2196] I hadn't any.

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Segment 7

Clov

[2197] (as before). [2198] Yes, you a [place = overwritten] had.

[2199] Pause.

Hamm

[2200] Have you the glass?

Clov

[2201] No, [2202] it's clear enough as it is.

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Segment 8

Hamm

[2203] Go and get it.

[2204] Pause. [2205] Clov throws up his eyes, brandishes his fists? [place = inline] .
[2206] He loses balance, clutches on to the m [place = overwritten] ladder. [2207] He starts to
get down, halts.

Clov

[2208] There's one thing I'll never understand. [2209] (He gets down.)

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Addition 1
told her to go hell
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