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Hamm |
[1138] Can he stand? |
Clov |
[1139] I don't know. |
Hamm |
[1140] Try. [1141] (He hands the dog to Clov who places it on the ground.) [1142] Well? |
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[1143] Wait! |
[1144] He squats down and tries to get the dog to stand up on its legs, [⁁]on its legs fails, lets it go.
[1145] The dog falls on its side.
Hamm |
[1145|001] (impatiently). [1146] Well? |
Clov |
[1147] He's sta |
Hamm |
[1148] (groping for the dog). [1149] Where? [1150] Where is he? |
[1151] Clov holds up the dog in a standing position.
Clov |
[1152] There. |
[1153] He takes Hamm's hand and guides it towards the dog's head.
Hamm |
[1154] (his hand on the dog's head).
[1155] Is he |
Clov |
[1156] Yes. |
Hamm |
[1157] (proudly). [1158] As if he were asking me to take him for a walk? |
Clov |
[1159] If you like. |
Hamm |
[1160] (as before).
[1161] Or as if he were |
[1164] Clov straightens up, [1165] the dog falls on its side.
Clov |
[1166] I'll leave you. |
Hamm |
[1167] Have you had your visions? |
Clov |
[1168] Less. |
Hamm |
[1169] Is Mother Pegg's light on? |
Clov |
Hamm |
[1172] Quenched! |
Clov |
[1173] Naturally it's quenched. [1174] If it's not on it's quenched. |
Hamm |
[1175] No, I mean Mother Pegg. |
Clov |
[1176] But naturally she's quenched! [1176|001] (Pause.) [1177] What's the matter with you to-day? |
Hamm |
[1178] I'm taking my course. [1179] (Pause.) [1180] Is she buried? |
Clov |
Hamm |
[1183] You. |
Clov |
[1184] Me! [1185] Haven't I enough to do without burying people? |
Hamm |
[1186] But you'll bury me. |

Clov |
[1187] No, I won't bury you. |
[1188] Pause.
Hamm |
[1189] She was bonny once, like a flower of the field. [1189|001] (With reminiscent leer.) [1190] And a great one for the men! |
Clov |
[1191] We too w |
[1193] Pause.
Hamm |
[1194] Go and get the gaff. |
[1195] Clov goes to door, halts.
Clov |
[1196] Do this, do that, and I do it.
[1197] I never refuse?
[1198] Why |
Hamm |
[1199] You're not able to. |
Clov |
[1200] Soon I won't do it any more. |
Hamm |
[1201] You won't be able to any more.
[1202] (Exit Clov.)
[1203] Ah |
[1204] Enter Clov with gaff.
Clov |
[1207] He gives the gaff to Hamm who, using wielding it like a puntpole, tries to move his chair.
Hamm |
[1208] Did I move? |
Clov |
[1209] |
[1210] Hamm throws down the gaff.
Hamm |
[1211] Go and get the oilcan. |
Clov |
[1212] What for? |
Hamm |
[1213] To oil the castors. |
Clov |
[1214] I oiled the |
Hamm |
[1215] Yesterday! [1216] What does that mean? [1217] Yesterday! |
Clov |
[1218] (violently). [1219] That means that bloody awful day, long ago, before this bloody awful day. [1220] I use the words you taught me. [1221] If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. [1222] Or let me be silent. |
[1223] Pause.
Hamm |
[1224] I once knew a |

Clov |
Hamm |
[1248] Oh way back, way back,
[1249] you w |
Clov |
[1250] |
[1251] Pause. [1252] Hamm raises his toque.
Hamm |
[1253] I |
Clov |
[1258] T |
Hamm |
[1259] No, no, there are not so many now. [1260] (Pause.) [1261] Clov. |
Clov |
[1262] Yes. |
Hamm |
[1263] Do you not think this has gone on long enough? |
Clov |
Hamm |
[1267] This...this...thing. |
Clov |
[1268] I've always thought so. [1269] (Pause.) [1270] You not? |
Hamm |
Clov |
[1273] As long as it lasts.
[1274] (Pause.)
[1275] All life long the same |
[1276] Pause.
Hamm |
[1277] I can't leave you. |
Clov |
[1280] Pause.
Hamm |
[1281] If you leave me how will I know? |
Clov |
[1282] (briskly). [1283] Well you simply whistle me and if I don't come running it means I've left you. |
[1284] Pause
Hamm |
[1285] You won't come and kiss me goodbye. |
Clov |
[1286] Oh I shoudn't think so. |
[1287] Pause.
Hamm |
[1288] But you might be merely dead in your kitchen. |
Clov |
[1289] The result would be the same. |
Hamm |
[1290] Yes, but how would I know, if you were merely dead in your kitchen? |
Clov |
[1291] Well...sooner or later I'd start to stink. |
Hamm |
[1292] You stink already. [1293] The whole house stinks of corpses. |
Clov |
[1294] The whole universe. |

Hamm |
[1295] (angrily). [1296] To hell with the universe! [1297] (Pause.) [1298] Think of something. |
Clov |
[1299] What? |
Hamm |
[1300] An idea, have an idea. [1301] (Pause. [1302] Angrily.) [1303] A bright idea! |
Clov |
[1304] Ah, good.
[1305] (He starts |
Hamm |
[1309] You won't be able to leave me. [1310] (Clov resumes his pacing.) [1311] What are you doing? |
Clov |
[1312] |
[1315] He halts.
Hamm |
Clov |
[1319] Wait.
[1320] (He meditates.
[1321] Not very convinced.)
[1322] Yes...
[1323] (Pause.
[1324] More convinced.)
[1325] Yes!
[1326] (He raises his head. |
[1329] Pause.
Hamm |
[1330] This is perhaps not one of my |
Clov |
[1331] You whistle me. [1332] I don't come. [1333] The alarm goes off. [1334] I'm gone. [1335] It doesn't go off. [1336] I'm dead. |
[1337] Pause.
DOODLE 12
Hamm |
[1338] Is it working?
[1339] (Pause.
[1340] Impatiently.)
[1341] The alarm |
Clov |
[1342] Why wouldn't it be working, |
Hamm |
[1343] Because it's been working too much. |
Clov |
[1344] But it's hardly been working at all. |
Hamm |
[1345] (angrily). [1346] Then because it's been working too little! |
Clov |
[1347] I'll go and see.
[1348] (Exit Clov.
[1350] Brief ring of alarm off.
[1351] Enter |
Hamm |
[1357] Vaguely. |
Clov |
[1358] The end is |
Hamm |
[1359] I prefer the middle.
[1360] (Pause.)
[1361] Is it not time for my |
Clov |
[1362] No.
[1363] (He goes to the door, turns.)
[1364] |
Hamm |
[1365] It's time for my story.
[1366] Do you |
Clov |
[1367] No. |
Hamm |
[1368] Ask my father if he |

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[1369] Clov goes to the bins, lifts the lid of Nagg's, looks into it, stoops over it. [1370] Pause. [1371] He straightens up. |
Clov |
[1372] He's asleep. |
Hamm |
[1373] Wake him. |
[1374] Clov stoops, wakes Nagg with the alarm. [1375] Unintelligible words. [1376] Clov straightens up.
Clov |
[1377] He doesn't want to listen to your story. |
Hamm |
[1378] I'll give him a bon-bon. |
[1379] Clov stoops. [1381] As before.
Clov |
[1382] He wants a sugar-plum. |
Hamm |
[1383] He'll get a sugar-plum. |
[1384] Clov stoops. [1386] As before.
Clov |
[1387] It's a deal.
[1388] (He goes towards the door.
[1389] Nagg's hands appear, gripping the rim.
[1390] Then the head emerges.
[1391] Clov reaches door, turns.)
[1392] Do you believe in the life to come |
Hamm |
[1393] Mine was always that. [1394] (Exit Clov.) [1395] Got him that time! |
Nagg |
[1397] I'm listening. |
Hamm |
Nagg |
[1400] I didn't know. |
Hamm |
Nagg |
[1403] That it'd be you.
[1404] (Pause.)
[1405] You'll give me a sugar-plum |
Hamm |
[1406] After the audition. |
Nagg |
[1407] You swear? |
Hamm |
[1408] Yes. |
Nagg |
[1409] On what? |
Hamm |
Nagg. |
[1413] Two. |
Hamm |
[1414] One. |
Nagg |
[1415] One for me and one for - |
Hamm |
[1416] One!
[1417] Silence!
[1418] (Pause.)
[1419] Where was I?
[1420] (Pause. [1421] Gloomy.)
[1422] It's finishe |
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