Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Fin de partie / Endgame

MS-OSU-RARE-29-6

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Hamm

[0873] And now?

Clov

[0873|001] All gone. [0874] (as before). [0875] All gone.

Hamm

[0876] No gulls?

Clov

[0877] '(as before). [0878] Gulls!

Hamm

[0879] And the horizon? [0880] Nothing on the horizon?

Clov

[0881] (lowering the glass, turning towards Hamm, exasperated). [0882] What the hell in God's name could there be on the horizon?

[0883] Pause.

Hamm

[0884] The waves, how are the waves?

Clov

[0885] The waves? [0885|001] (Pause.) [0885|002] Lead. [0886] (He turhns the telescope on the waves.) [0887] Lead.

Hamm

[0888] And the sun.

Clov

[0889] (looking). [0890] Nix. None. Nix Zero

Hamm

[0891] But it should be setting[] going down sinking. [0892] Look carefully again.

Clov

[0893] (having looked again). [0894] Damn the sun.

Hamm

[0895] Is it night already then?

Clov

[0896] (looking). [0897] No.

Hamm

[0898] Then what is it?

Clov

[0899] (looking). [0900] It's grey. [0901] (Lowering the glass, turning towards Hamm, louder.) [0902] Grey! [0903] (Pause. [0904] Still louder.) [0905] GRREY!

[0906] He gets down, approaches Hamm from behind, whispers in his ear.

Hamm

[0907] (starting). [0908] Grey! [0909] Did I hear you say grey?

Clov

[0910] Light black. [0911] From pole to pole.

Hamm

[0912] You exaggerate! [0913] (Paiuse.) [0914] Don't stay there, you frighten me make me nervous give me the creeps.

[0915] Clov returns to his place beside the chair.

Clov

[0916] Why this farce, day after day?

Hamm

[0917] Routine. [0918] You never know. [0919] (Pause.) [0920] Last night I saw inside my breast. [0921] There was a big sore.

Clov

[0922] Pah! You saw your heart.

Hamm

[0923] No, it was living. [0923|001] (Pause.) [0923|002] Clov[0924](Pause. [0925] With anguish.) [0926] Clov!

Clov

[0927] Yes.

Hamm

[0928] What's happening?

Clov

[0929] Something is taking its course.

[0930] Pause.

Clov Hamm

[0931] Clov.

Clov

[0932] (impatiently) [0933] What is it?

[p. 17r]

Hamm

[0934] We're not beginning to...to...mean something?

Clov

[0935] Mean something! [0936] You and I, mean something! [0937] (Brief laugh.) [0938] Ah that's a good one!

Hamm

[0939] I wonder. [0940] (Pause.) [0941] Imagine Suppose an intelligent being came back in the world again Imagine an intelligent[] if a rational being came back to earth,, wouldn't he be liable to get ideas into his head, if he observed us long enough? [0942] (Voice of intelligent rational being.) [0943] Ah, good, now I see what it is, yes, now I understand what they're at! [0944] (Clov starts, drops the glass and beingins to scratch his belly with both hands. [0945] Normal voice.) [0946] And without going so far as that, we pourselves...(with emotion)...we ourselves, at certain moments...[0947](Vehemently.) [0948] To think perhaps it won't all have been for nothing!

Clov

[0949] (with anguish, scratching himself). [0950] I have a flea!

Hamm

[0951] A flea! [0952] Are there still fleas?

Clov

[0952|001] Unless it's a crablouse. [0953] (scractching). [0954] Unless it's a crablouse. [0954|001] (morpion)

Hamm

[0955] (very disturbed upset). [0955|001] A flea! [0956] But from there humanity might start from there all over again! [0957] Catch him, for the love of God!

Clov

[0958] I'll go and get the powder.

[0959] Exit Clov.

Hamm

[0960] A flea! [0961] This is awgful! [0962] What a day!

[0963] Enter Clov, with a sprinkling-tin.

Clov

[0964] I'm back again, with the insecticide.

Hamm

[0965] Let him have it!

[0966] Clov loosens the top of his trousers, pulls its forward and shakes powder into the aperture. [0967] He stoops, looks, waits, starts, frenziedly shakes more powder, stoops, looks, waits.

Clov

[0968] The bastard!

Hamm

[0969] Did you get him?

Clov

[0970] Looks like it. [0970|001] Unless he's laying low [0971] (He drops the tin and adjusts his trousers.) [0972] Unless he's laying low.

Hamm

[0973] Laying! [0974] Lying, you mean. [0975] Unless he's lying low.

Clov

[0976] Ah! [0977] One says lying? [0978] One doesn't say laying?

Hamm

[0979] Use your head, can't you. [0980] If he was laying we'd be bitched.

Clov

[0980|001] Ah! [0981] (Pause.) [0982] What about that pee?

[p. 18r]

[0982|001] Pause.

Clov

[0982|002] What about your pee?

Hamm

[0982|003] I'm having it. [0982|004] It's nearly over. [0983] I'm having it.

Clov

[0984] Ah that's the spirit, that's the spirit.!

[0985] Pause.

Hamm

[0986] (with ardour). [0987] Let's be gone go from here, the two of us! [0988] South! [0989] You can make a raft [0990] and the currents will carry us away, far away, to other... mammifers. mammals.

Clov

[0991] God forbid!

Hamm

[0992] Alone, I'll set out embark alone! [0993] Get working on that raft illmmediately. [0994] To-morrow I'll be gone.

Clov

[0995] (hastening towards the door). [0996] I'll start straight away.

Hamm

[0997] Wait! [0998] (Clov halts.) [0999] Will there we sharks, do you think?

Clov

[1000] Sharks? [1000|001] If there are there will be. [1001] I don't know. [1002] If there stillare there will be.

[1003] He goes towards the door.

Hamm

[1004] Wait! [1005] (Clov halts.) [1006] It is not yet time for my sedative painkiller?

Clov

[1007] (violently). [1008] No!

[1009] He goes towards the door.

Hamm

[1010] Wait! [1011] (Clov halts.) [1012] How are your eyes?

Clov

[1013] Bad.

Hamm

[1014] But you can see?

Clov

[1015] Sufficiently.

Hamm

[1016] How are your legs?

Clov

[1017] Bad.

Hamm

[1018] But you can walk.

Clov

[1019] I come...and go.

Hamm

[1020] In my house. [1021] (Pause. [1022] With prophetic relish.) [1023] One day you'll be blind. [1024] Like me. [1025] You'll be spitting ther sitting there, a speck in the void, in the dark, for ever, [1026] like me. [1027] (Pause.) [1028] One day you'll say, I'm tired, I'll sit down, and you'll go and sit down. [1029] Then you'll say, I'm hungry, I'll get up and get something to eat. [1030] But you won't get up. [1031] You'll say, I shouldn't hacve sat down, but since I have I'll sit on a little longer, then I'll get up and get something to eat. [1032] But you won't get up and you won't get anything to eat. [1033] (Pause.) [1034] You'll look at the wall for a little while, then you'll say, I'll close my eyes, perhaps sleep a little sleep a little, after that I'll feel better, and you'll close them. [1035] And when you open

[p. 19r]

[1035] them again there'll be no wall any more. [1036] (Pause.) [1037] Infinitive emptiness will be all around you, all the resurrected dead of all the ages wouldn't fill it, and there you'll bite like a little bit of grit in the middle of the steppe. [1038] (Pause.) [1039] Yes, one day you'll know what it is, it's like, you'll be like me, except that uyou won't have anyone with you, because you won't have had pity on anyone and because there won't be anyone left to have pity on.

[1040] Pause.

Clov

[1041] It's not certain. [1042] (Pause.) [1043] And there's something you forget.

Hamm

[1044] Ah?

Clov

[1045] I can't sit down.

Hamm

[1046] (impatiently). [1047] Well then you'll lie down there then, what the hell! [1048] Or you'll come to a standstill, simply stop and stand still, Tthe way you are now. [1049] One day you'll say, I'm tired, I'll stop. [1050] What does the attitude matter?

[1051] Pause.

Clov

[1052] So you all want me to leave you.

Hamm

[1053] Naturally.

Clov

[1054] Then I'll leave you.

Hamm

[1055] You can't leave us.

Clov

[1056] Then I won't leave you.

[1057] Pause.

Hamm

[1058] Why don't you finish us? [1059] (Pause.) [1060] I'll give you the combination of the larder if you promise to finish me.

Clov

[1061] I couldn't finish you.

Hamm

[1062] Then you won't finish me.

[1063] Pause.

Clov

[1064] I'll leave you, I have things to do.

Hamm

[1065] Do you remember your arrival when you came here?

Clov

[1066] BO No. [1067] Too small, you told me.

Hamm

[1068] Do you remember your father?

Clov

[1069] (with lassitude wearily). [1070] Same answer. [1071] (Pause.) [1072] You've asked me these questions millions of times.

Hamm

[1073] I love the old questions. [1074] (With fervour.) [1075] Ah the old questions, the old answers, hthere's nothing like them! [1076] (Pause.) [1077] It was I was a father to you.

Clov

[1078] Yes. [1079] (He looks at Hamm fixedly.) [1080] You were that to me.

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Hamm

[1081] It was mMy house was a home for you.

Clov

[1082] Yes. [1083] (He looks about him.) [1084] This was that for me.

Hamm

[1085] (proudly). [1086] No Hamm But for me(gesture towards himself), no father. [1087] No But for Hamm (gesture round about towards surroundings), no home.

[1088] Pause.

Clov

[1089] I'll leave you.

Hamm

[1090] Did you ever think of one thing?

Clov

[1091] Never.

Hamm

[1092] That here we're down in a hole. [1093] (Pause.!) [1094] But beyond the mountains hills? [1095] Eh? [1096] Perhaps it's still green. [1097] Eh? [1098] (Pause.) [1099] Flora! [1100] Pomona! [1102] (Ecstatically.) [1103] Ceres! [1104] (Pause.!) [1105] Perhaps you won't need to go very far.

Clov

[1106] I can't go very far. [1107] (Pause.) [1108] I'll leave you.

Hamm

[1109] Is my dog ready?

Clov

[1110] He lacks a leg.

Hamm

[1111] Is he silky?

Clov

[1112] He's a kind of Pom.eranian.

Hamm

[1113] Go and get him.

Clov

[1114] He lacks a leg.

Hamm

[1115] Go and get him! [1116] (Exit Clov.) [1117] We're getting on.

[1119] Enter Clovn, holding by one of its three legs a black toy dog.

Clov

[1120] Your dogs are here.

[1121] He hands th gives the dog to Hamm who feels it, fiondles it.

Hamm

[1122] He's white, isn't he?

Clov

[1123] Nearly.

Hamm

[1124] What do you mean, nearly? [1125] Is he white or isn't he?

Clov

[1126] He isn't.

[1127] Pause.

Hamm

[1128] You've forgotten his the sex.

Clov

[1129] (vexed). [1130] But he isn't finished. [1131] The sex goes on at the end.

[1132] Pause.

Hamm

[1133] You haven't put on his ribbon.

Clov

[1134] (angrily). [1135] But he isn't finished, I tell you! [1136] First you finish your dog, and then you put on his ribbon.

[1137] Pause.

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