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[0001] Bare interior.
[0002] Grey light.
[0003] Left and right back, high up, two small windows, with curtains drawn.
[0004] Front right a door. [0005] Hanging near door, its face to wall, a picture.
[0006] Front left, touching each other, covered with an old sheet, two ashbins.
[0007] Centre, in an armchair on casxtors, covered with an old sheet, Hamm.
[0008] Motionless by the door, his eyes fixed on Hamm, Clov. [0009] Very red face.
[0009|001] Brief tableau.
[0010] Clov goes and stands under window left.
[0011] Stiff, unsteady staggering walk.
[0012] He looks up at window left.
[0013] He turns his head and looks at window right.
[0014] He goes out and comes back immediately he goes and stands under window right.
[0015] He looks up at window right.
[0016] hHe turns his head and looks at window left.
[0017] He goes out, comes back immediately with a small step-ladder, sets it down under widnow left, gets up on it, draws back the curtain.
[0018] He gets down, takes six paces (for example) towards window right, goes back for ladder, carries it over and sets it down under window right, gets up on it, draws back the curtain.
[0019] He gets down, takes three paces towards window left, goes back for ladde,r, carries it over and[⁁] sets it down under window left, gets up on it, looks out of window.
[0020] Brief laugh.
[0021] He gets down, takes one pace towards woindow right, goes back for ladder, carries it over and sets it down under window right, gets up on it, looks out of window.
[0022] Brief laughx.
[0023] He gets down, goes with ladder towards ashbins, halts, turns, sets down ladder brings back ladder & sets it down under window right, goes to xxx ashbins, removes sheet covering them, folds it over his arm.
[0024] He lifts one lid, stoops and looks into the bin.
[0025] Brief laugh.
[0026] hHe closes lid.
[0027] Same with other bin.
[0028] He goes to Hamm, removes sheet covering him, folds it over his arm.
[0029] In a red red dressing-gown, a stiff toque on his head, a large blood-stained handkerchief over his face, a whistle hanging from his neck, a rug over his knees, thick socks on his feet, NHamm seems to be asleep.
[0030] Clov looks at him him over.
[0031] Brief laugh.
[0032] He goes to door, halts, turns towards auditorium.
Clov |
[0033] (fixed gaze, tonelessly |

Clov |
[0038] be punished any more.
[0039] (Pause.)
[0040] I'll go now to my kitchen, ten feet by ten feet by ten feet, and wait for him to whistle me.
[0041] (Pause.)
[0042] Nice |
[0043] He remains a momneent motionless, [0044]then goes out. [0045] xHe comes back immeditaleately, goes to window right, takes up the ladder and carries it out. [0046] Pause. [0047] Hamm stirs. [0048] He yawns under the handkerchief. [0049] xHe removes the handkerchief from his face. [0050] Very red face. [0051] Black glasses.
Hamm |
[0052] Me - (he yawns)-
[0054] to play.
[0055] (He holds the handkerchief spread out before him.)
[0056] Old stancher!
[0057] (He takes off his glasses, wipes his eyes, his face, |
Clov |
[0098] I've just got you up. |
Hamm |
[0099] And what of it? |
Clov |
[0100] I can't be getting you up and putting you to bed every five minutes, I've things to do. |
[0101] Pause.
Hamm |
[0102] Did you ever see my eyes? |
Clov |
[0103] No. |
Hamm |
[0104] Did you never have the curiosity, while I was sleeping, to take off my glasses and look at my eyes? |
Clov |
Hamm |
[0108] One of these days I'll show them to you. [0109] (Pause.) [0110] It seems they're they've gone all white. [0111] (Pause.) [0112] What time is it? |

Clov |
[0113] The same as usual. |
Hamm |
[0113|001] (gesture towards window right). [0114] Have you looked? |
Clov |
[0115] Yes. |
Hamm |
[0116] Well? |
Clov |
[0117] Zero. |
Hamm |
[0118] It'd need to |
Clov |
[0119] |
[0120] Pause.
|
[0121] Apart from that, how do you feel? |
Clov |
[0122] I don't complain. |
Hamm |
[0123] You feel normal? |
Clov |
Hamm |
[0126] I feel a little queer myself. [0127] (Pause.) [0128] Clov. |
Clov |
[0129] Yes. |
Hamm |
[0130] Have you not had enough? |
Clov |
Hamm |
[0134] Of this...this...thing. |
Clov |
Hamm |
[0138] (gloomy). [0139] Then there's no reason for it to change. |
Clov |
[0140] It may end. [0141] (Pause.) [0142] All life long the same questions, the same answers. |
Hamm |
[0143] Get me ready.
[0143|001] |
Clov |
[0148] Yes. |
Hamm |
[0149] I'll give you nothing more to eat. |
Clov |
[0150] Then we'll |
Hamm |
[0151] I'll give you just eno |
Clov |
[0153] Then we |
Hamm |
[0157] No!
[0158] (Clov halts.)
[0159] I'll give you one biscuit |
Clov |
[0164] Why do you keep me? |
Hamm |
[0165] There's no one else. |
Clov |
[0166] There's nowhere else. |
[0167] Pause.

Hamm |
[0168] You're leaving me all the same. |
Clov |
[0169] I'm trying |
Hamm |
[0170] You don't love me. |
Clov |
[0171] No. |
Hamm |
[0172] You loved me once. |
|
[0173] Once! |
Hamm |
[0174] I've made you suffer too much. [0175] (Pause.) [0176] Haven't I? |
Clov |
[0177] It's not that. |
Hamm |
[0178] (shocked).
[0179] I haven't |
Clov |
[0180] Yes. |
Hamm |
[0181] (relieved).
[0182] Ah
[0183] you gave me a fright!
[0183|001] |
Clov |
Hamm |
[0193] Less.
[0194] (Pause.)
[0195] Is it not time for my |
Clov |
[0196] No. |
[0197] Pause.
Hamm |
[0198] How are your eyes? |
Clov |
[0199] Bad. |
Hamm |
[0200] How are your legs? |
Clov |
[0201] Bad. |
Hamm |
[0202] But you can move? |
Clov |
[0203] Yes. |
Hamm |
[0204] (violently). [0205] Then move! [0206] (Clov goes to back wall, leans against it with his forehead and hands.) [0207] Where are you? |
Clov |
[0208] Here. |
Hamm |
[0209] Come back! [0210] (Clov returns to his place beside the chair.) [0211] Where are you? |
Clov |
[0212] Here. |
Hamm |
[0213] Why don't you kill me? |
Clov |
[0214] I don't know the combination of the larder. |
[0215] Pause.
Hamm |
[0216] Go and get two bicycle wheels. |
Clov |
[0217] There are no more bicycle wheels. |
Hamm |
[0218] What have you done with your bicycle? |
Clov |
[0219] I never had a bicycle. |

Hamm |
[0220] The thing is impossible. |
Clov |
[0221] When there were still bicycles I wept to have one. [0222] I crawled at your feet. [0223] You sent me packing told me to go to hell. [0224] Now there are none. |
Hamm |
[0225] And your rounds?
[0226] When you went to see inspected my paupers?
[0227] Always on foot |
Clov |
[0228] Sometimes on horse.
[0229] (The lid of one of the bins lifts and the hands of Nagg appear, gripping the rim. [0230] Then the head emerges |
Hamm |
[0234] In your kitchen? |
Clov |
[0235] Yes. |
Hamm |
[0236] Outside of here it's death.
[0237] (Pause. |
Nagg |
[0242] Me pap! |
Hamm |
[0243] Accursed progenitor! |
Nagg |
[0244] Me pap! |
Hamm |
[0245] The old folk at home! No decency left! [0246] Guzzle, guzzle, that's all they think about. [0247] (He whistles. [0248] Enter Clov. [0249] He halts beside the chair.) [0250] Well! [0251] I thought you were leaving me. |
Clov |
[0252] Oh not just yet, not just yet. |
Hamm |
[0254] Give him his pap. |
Clov |
[0255] There's no more pap. |
Hamm |
[0256] (to Nagg).
[0257] Do you hear that? There's no more pap.
[0258] You'll never |
Nagg |
[0259] I want me pap! |
Hamm |
[0260] Give him a biscuit. [0261] (Exit Clov.) [0262] Accursed fornicator! [0263] How are your stumps? |
Nagg |
[0264] Never mind me stumps. |
[0265] Enter Clov with biscuit.
Clov |
[0266] I'm back again, with the biscuit. |
[0267] He gives the biscuit to Nagg who fingers it, sniffs it.
Nagg |
Clov |
[0270] Spratt's medium. |
Nagg |
Hamm |
[0274] Bottle him! |
[0275] Clov pushes Nagg back into the bin, shuts the lid.
Clov |
[0276] (returning to his place beside the chair). [0277] If age but knew! |
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