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Hamm |
[0278] Sit on him. |
Clov |
[0279] I can't sit. |
Hamm |
Clov |
[0282] S |
Hamm |
[0283] Every man his special |
Clov |
Hamm |
[0290] (after refl |
Clov |
[0294] Yes. |
Hamm |
[0295] Nature has forgotten us. |
Clov |
[0296] There's no more nature. |
Hamm |
Clov |
[0299] In the vicinity. |
Hamm |
[0300] But we breathe, we change! [0301] We lose our hair, our teeth! [0302] Our bloom! [0303] Our ideals! |
Clov |
[0304] Then |
Hamm |
[0305] But you say there is none. |
Clov |
[0306] (sadly).
[0307] No one in the world that ever lived ever thought so |
Hamm |
[0308] We do what we can. |
Clov |
[0309] We shouldn't. |
[0310] Pause.
Hamm |
[0311] Smart, eh? You're a bit of all right, aren't you? |
Clov |
[0312] All over. A smithereen. |
[0313] Pause.
Hamm |
[0314] This is slow work.
[0315] |
Clov |
[0317] No. [0318] (Pause.) [0319] I'll leave you, I have things to do. |
Hamm |
[0320] In your kitchen? |
Clov |
[0321] Yes. |
Hamm |
[0322] What, I'd like to know. |
Clov |
[0323] I look at the w |
Hamm |
[0324] The wa |
Clov |
[0328] I see my light dying. |
Hamm |
[0329] Your light dying! [0330] Listen to that! [0331] Well it can die just as well here, your light. [0332] Take a look at me and then come back and tell me what you think of your light. |

[0333] Pause.
Clov |
[0334] You shouldn't talk to me like that. |
[0335] Pause.
Hamm |
[0336] (coldly).
[0337] Forgive me.
[0338] ( |
Clov |
[0341] I heard you. |
[0342] Pause. [0343] The lid of Nagg's bin lifts. [0344] His hands appear, gripping the rim. [0345] Then his head emerges. [0346] In his mouth the biscuit. [0347] He listens.
Hamm |
[0348] Did your seeds come up? |
Clov |
[0349] No. |
Hamm |
[0350] Did you scratch round them to see if they had sprouted? |
Clov |
[0351] They haven't sprouted. |
Hamm |
[0352] Perhaps it's still too early. |
Clov |
[0353] If they were going to sprout they would have sprouted. [0353|001] (Violently [0354] They'll never sprout. |
[0355] Pause. [0355|001] Nagg takes biscuit in his hand.
Hamm |
[0356] This is not much fun. [0357] (Pause.) [0358] But that's always the way at the end of the day, isn't it, Clov? |
Clov |
[0359] Always. |
Hamm |
[0360] It's the end of the day like any other day, isn't it, Clov. |
Clov |
[0361] Looks like it. |
[0362] Pause.
Hamm |
[0363] (anguished). [0364] What's happening, what's happening? |
Clov |
[0365] Something is taking its course. |
[0366] Pause.
Hamm |
[0367] All right, be off.
[0368] (He leans back in the chair, remains motionless. [0369] Clov does not move |
Clov |
[0373] I'm trying. [0374] (He goes to door, halts.) [0375] Ever since I was born. |
[0376] Exit Clov.
Hamm |
[0377] We're getting on. |
[0378] He leans back in his chair, remains motionless. [0379] Nagg knocks on the lid of the other bin. [0380] Pause. [0381] He knocks louder. harder. [0382] The lid lifts and Nell's hands appear, gripping the ring. Then her head emerges. [0383] Lace cap. [0384] Very white face.
Nell |
[0385] What is it, my pet? [0386] (Pause.) [0387] Time for love? |
Nagg |
[0388] Were you asleep? |

|
Nell |
[0389] Oh no! |
Nagg |
[0390] Kiss me. |
Nell |
[0391] We can't. |
Nagg |
[0392] Try. |
[0393] Their heads strain towards each other, fail to meet, fall apart ahgain.
Nell |
[0394] Why this farce, day after day? |
[0395] Pause.
Nagg |
[0396] I've lost me tooth. |
Nell |
[0397] When? |
Nagg |
[0398] I had it yesterday. |
Nell |
[0401] They turn painfully towards each other.
Nagg |
[0402] Can you see me? |
Nell |
Nagg |
[0405] What? |
Nell |
[0406] Can you see me? |
[0406|001] Hardly. [0406|002] (Pause.)
Nagg |
Nell |
[0412] Yes. |
[0413] Pause. [0414] They turn away from each other.
Nagg |
[0415] Can you hear me? |
Nell |
Nagg |
[0418] Yes.
[0419] ( |
Nell |
[0421] Our what? |
Nagg |
[0422] Our hearing. |
Nell |
[0423] No.
[0424] (Pause.)
[0425] |
Nagg |
[0426] Do you remember - |
Nell |
[0427] No. |
Nagg |
[0428] When we crashed on our tandem and lost our legs. |
[0429] They laugh. heartily.
Nell |
[0430] It was in the Ardennes. |

[0431] They klaugh less loud heartily.
Nagg |
[0432] On the road |
Nell |
Nagg |
[0438] I'm |
Nell |
[0441] Yes. |
Nagg |
[0442] Then go in. [0443] (Nell does not move.) [0444] Why don't you go in? |
Nell |
[0445] I don't know. |
[0446] Pause.
Nagg |
[0447] Has he changed[⁁] your sawdust |
Nell |
[0448] It isn't sawdust. [0449] (Pause. [0450] Wearily.) [0451] Can you not be a little accurate, Nagg? |
Nagg |
Nell |
[0454] It is important. |
[0455] Pause.
Nagg |
[0456] It used to be sawdust. |
Nell |
[0457] |
Nagg |
[0458] And now it's sand. [0459] (Pause.) [0460] From the shore. [0461] (Pause.) [0463] Now it's sand he fetches from the shore. |
|
[0464] |
Nagg |
[0465] Has he changed yours |
Nell |
[0466] No. |
Nagg |
[0467] Nor mine.
[0468] (Pause.)
[0469] |
Nell |
Nagg |
[0476] |
Hamm |
[0487] ( |
[0504] Pause.
Nagg |
[0505] (soft). [0506] Do you hear him? [0507] A heart in his head! |
[0508] He chuckles cautiously.
Nell |
[0509] One |

[0510] always laugh at them?
[0510] always laugh at them? |
Nagg |
[0511] Not so loud! |
Nell |
[0512] (without lowering her voice). [0513] Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you. [0514] But - |
Nagg |
Nell |
[0517] Yes, yes, it's the most comic thing in the world.
[0518] And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning.
[0520] But it's like the funny st |
Nagg |
[0523] No. |
Nell |
[0524] Are you sure? [0525] (Pause.) [0526] Then I'll leave you. |
Nagg |
[0527] Do you not want your biscuit. [0528] (Pause.) [0529] I'll keep it for you. [0530] (Pause.) [0531] I thought you were going to leave me. |
Nell |
[0532] I am going to leave you. |
Nagg |
[0533] Can you give me a scratch before you go? |
Nell |
Nagg |
[0537] In the back. |
Nell |
[0538] No. [0539] (Pause.) [0540] Rub yourself against the rim. |
Nagg |
Nell |
[0543] What hollow? |
Nagg |
[0544] The hollow!
[0545] (Pause.)
[0546] |
Nell |
Nagg |
[0551] Can you not?
[0552] (Pause.)
[0553] Would you like me to scra |
Nell |
[0556] I was trying. |
[0557] Pause.
Hamm |
[0559] Perhaps it's a little vein. |
[0560] Pause.
Nagg |
[0561] What was that he said? |
Nell |
[0562] Perhaps it's a little vein. |
Nagg |
[0563] What does that mean?
[0564] (Pause.)
[0565] |
Nell |
[0567|001] |
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