Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript ProjectFin de partie / Endgame

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Segment 1

Clov

[2373] I'mll leave you.

[2374] He goes towards door.

Hamm

[2375] Before you go...(Clov halts hear door)...say something.

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Segment 2

Clov

[2376] There's nothing to say.

Hamm

[2377] A few wotrds...that I can ponder...in my heart.

Clov

[2378] Your heart!

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Segment 3

Hamm

[2379] Yes. [2380] (Pause. [2381] Forcibly.) [2382] Yes! [2383] (Pause.) [2384] With the rest, in
the end, the shadows, the murmurs, all the trouble, to
endup with. [2385] (Pause.) [2386] Clov...[2387](Pause.) [2388] He never spoke to
me. [2389] Then in the end, before he went, without my having
asked him, he spoke to me. [2390] He said...

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Segment 4

Clov

[2391] (despairing). [2392] Ah...!

Hamm

[2393] Something...from your heart.

Clov

[2394] My heart!

Hamm

[2395] A few words...from your heart.

[2395|001] Pause.

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Segment 5

Clov

[2396] (sings).



[2399] Enough?

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Segment 6

Hamm

[2400] (bitterly). [2401] A spit!

[2402] Pause.

Clov

[2403] (fixed gaze, tonelessly). [2404] They said to me, That's love,
yes, yes, not a doubt, now you see how -

Hamm

[2405] Articulate!

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Segment 7

Clov
[2406] (as before). [2407] How easy simple easy it is. [2408] They said to me, That's
friendship, yes, yes, no question, you've found it. [2409] They
said to me, Here's the place, stop, raise your head and
look at all that spelendour loveliness. [2410] That order!

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Segment 8

[2411] They said to me,
Come now, you're not a brute beast, think these things
over and you'll see how all becomes clear. [2412] And simple!
[2413] They said to me, What skilled attention they get, all
these wounded unto death! dying of their wounds.

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