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Nagg |
[0569] To cheer you up. |
Nell |
[0570] It's not funny. |
Nagg |
[0571] It has always made you laugh. [0572] (Pause.) [0573] The first time I thought you'd die. |
Nell |
[0574] It was on the Lake of Como.
[0575] (Pause.)
[0576] One April afternoon.
[0577] |
Nagg |
[0579] What? |
Nell |
[0580] That we once went rowing on the the Lake of Como. [0581] (Pause.) [0582] One April afternoon. |
Nagg |
[0583] |
Nell |
[0584] Engaged! |
Nagg |
[0585] You were in such fits that we capsized. [0586] By right we should have been drowned. |
Nell |
[0587] It was because I felt happy. |
Nagg |
[0588] It was not, it was |
Nell |
[0591] It was deep, deep. [0592] And you could see down to the bottom. [0593] So white. [0594] So clean. |
Nagg |
[0595] Let me tell it again.
[0596] (Raconteur's voice.)
[0597] An Englishman, needing a pair of striped trousers in a hurry for the New Year |

[0631] Pause. [0632] He looks at Nell who has remained impassive, her eyes unseeing, breaks into a high forced laugh, cuts it short, pokes his head towards Nell, launches his laugh again.
Hamm |
[0633] Silence!
[0634] |
Nell |
[0635] You could see down to the bottom. |
Hamm |
[0636] (exasperated).
[0637] Have you not finished?
[0638] Will you never finish?
[0639] (With sudden fury.)
[0640] Will this never finish?
[0641] (Nagg disappears into his bin, |
[0650] Clov goes to the bins, halts.
Nell |
[0651] S |
Hamm |
[0654] Clov stoops down, takes Nell's hand, feels her pulse.
Nell |
[0657] VClov lets go her hand, pushes her back in the bin, shuts the lid.
Clov |
[0658] (returning to his place beside the chair). [0659] She has no pulse. |
Hamm |
[0661] What was she drivelling about? |
Cl |
[0662] She told me to go away, into the desert. |
Hamm |
[0663] Tell her to mind her own business. Damn busybody! [0664] Is that all? |
Clov |
[0665] No? |
Hamm |
[0666] What else? |
Clov |
[0667] I didn't understand. |
Hamm |
[0668] Have you bottled her? |
Clov |
[0669] Yes. |
Hamm |
[0670] Are they both bottled? |
Clov |
[0671] Yes. |
Hamm |
[0672] Screw down the lids.
[0673] ( |
Clov |
[0677] I'll go |
[0678] He goes towards the door.
Hamm |
[0679] Time enough.
[0680] (Clov halts.)
[0681] Give me my |
Clov |
[0682] ,It's too soon.
[0683] (Pause.)
[0684] It's too soon on top of your |
Hamm |
[0685] In the morning they brace you up and in the evening they |

[0685] calm you down.
[0686] Unless it's the other way round.
[0687] (Pause.)
[0688] That |
Clov |
[0689] He wasn't old. |
Hammm |
[0690] But he's dead? |
Clov |
[0694] Pause.
Hamm |
[0695] Take me for a little turn.
[0696] (Clov goes behind the chair and pushes it forward.)
[0697] Not too fast!
[0698] (Clov pushes chair.)
[0699] |
Clo |
[0704|001] (pushing). [0705] Yes. |
Hamm |
[0706] We'd need a proper wheel-chair. [0707] With big wheels. [0708] Bicycle wheels! [0709] (Pause.) [0710] Are you hugging? |
Clov |
[0710|001] (pushing). [0711] Yes. |
Hamm |
[0712] (groping for wall). [0713] It's a lie! [0714] Why do you lie to me? |
Clov |
[0715] (bearing closer to the wall).
[0716] There |
|
[0716|001] |
[0716|002] Clov stops chair close to back wall
Hamm |
[0717] Stop! [0718] (Clov stops chair close to back wall. [0719] Hamm lays his hand against the wall.) [0721] Old wall! [0722] (Pause.) [0723] Beyond is the...other hell. [0724] (Pause. [0725] Violently.) [0726] Closer! [0727] Closer! [0728] Up against! |
Clov |
[0729] Take away your hand.
[0730] (Hamm |
[0733] Hamm leans towards wall, applies his ear to it.
Hamm |
[0734] Do you hear |
Clov |
[0746] We haven't |
Hamm |
[0747] |
Clov |
[0750] Yes, that's your place. |
Hamm |
[0751] Am I right in the centre? |
Clov |
[0752] I'll measure it. |
Hamm |
[0753] |
Clov |
[0754|001] (moving chair slightly).
[0755] There |
Hamm |
[0756] I'm |

Clov |
[0757] I'd say so. |
Hamm |
Clov |
[0760] I'll go and get the chain. |
Hamm |
[0761] Roughly!
[0762] Roughly |
Clov |
[0765] There |
[0766] Pause.
Hamm |
[0767] I feel a little too far to the left.
[0768] (Clov moves chair slightly.)
[0770] Now I feel a little too far to the right.
[0771] (Clov as before.)
[0772] |
[0777] Clov goes back to his place beside the chair.
Clov |
[0778] If I could kill him I'd die happy. |
[0779] Pause.
Hamm |
[0780] What's the weather like? |
Clov |
[0781] |
Hamm |
[0782] Look at the |
Clov |
[0783] I've looked. |
Hamm |
[0784] With the glass? |
Clov |
[0785] No need of the glass. |
Hamm |
[0786] Look at it with the glass. |
Clov |
[0787] I'll go and get the glass. |
[0788] Exit Clov.
Hamm |
[0789] No need of the glass! |
[0790] Enter Clov, with the glass.
Clov |
[0791] I'm back again, with the glass. [0792] (He goes to window right, looks up at it.) [0793] I need the ladder. |
Hamm |
[0794] Why? [0795] Have you shrunk? [0796] (Exit Clov, with the glass.) [0797] I don't like that, I don't like that. |
[0798] Enter Clov, with the ladder, but without the glass.
Clov |
[0799] I'm back again, with the ladder. [0800] (He sets down the ladder under window left, gets up on it, realizes he has not the glass, gets down.) [0801] I need the glass. |
[0802] He goes towards the door.

Hamm |
Clov |
[0805] (halting, violently). [0806] No, I haven't the glass! |
[0807] Exit Clov.
Hamm |
[0808] This is |
[0809] Enter Clov, with the glass. [0810] He goes towards ladder.
Clov |
[0811] Things are |
Hamm |
Clov |
[0825] (after reflexion).
[0826] Nor I.
[0827] (He gets up on the |
Hamm |
[0830|001] (to himself) [0834] Nothing stirs. [0835] All is - |
Clov |
[0836] |
Hamm |
[0837] (violently).
[0838] Don't interrupt me!
[0839] ( |
Clov |
[0843] What all is?
[0844] In a word?
[0845] Is |
Hamm |
[0852] Look at the sea. |
Clov |
[0853] It's the same. |
Hamm |
[0854] Look at the ocean! |
[0855] Clov gets down, takes a few paces towards window left, goes back for the ladder, carries it over and sets it down under window left, gets up on it, turns the glass on the without, looks at length. [0856] He starts, lowers the glass, examines it, turns it again on the without.
|
[0857] Never seen anything like that! |
Hamm |
[0858] (anxious). [0859] What? [0860] A sail? [0861] A fin? [0862] Smoke? |
Clov |
[0862|001] |
Hamm |
Clov |
Hamm |
[0870] The base. |
Clov |
[0872] Yes. |
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