MS-OSU-RARE-29-6

[2083] (soft). [2084] What'll I do? [2085] (Pause. [2086] In a howl.) [2087] What'll I do!^? [2088] (Clov sees the picture, takes it down, stands it on the floor with its face ti^o the wall, hangs up the a alarm-clock in its place.) [2089] What are you doing?

[2089|001] ^{What remains to be done.} [2089|002] ^Lingering. [2090] ^{Winding up.}

[2092] Look at the land. ^earth.

[2093] Again?

[2094] Since it's calling to you.

[2095] Is your throat hurting you? [2096] (Pause.) [2097] Would you like a jujube ^lozenge? [2098] (Pause.) [2099] No? [2100] (Pause.) [2101] Pity.

[2103] Don't sing.

[2104] (turning towards Hamm). [2105] One hasn't the right to sing any more?

[2106] No.

[2107] Then how can it end?

[2108] You want it to end?

[2109] I want to sing.

[2110] I can't prevent you.

[2113] What did I do with that ladder? [2114] (He looks round for it.) [2115] You didn't see that ladder? [2116] (He sees it.) [2117] Ah, about time. [2117|001] ^{I knew it was I saw it somewhere.} [2118] (He goes towards window left.) [2119] Sometimes I wonder if I'm in my roⁱght mind. [2120] Then it passes over and i'm as lucid as before. [2121] (He gets up on ladder, looks out of window.) [2122] Mother of God, [2123] she's under water! [2124] (He looks.) [2125] How can that be? [2126] (He pokes forward his head, his hand above his eyes.) [2127] It hasn't rained. [2128] (He wipes the pane, looks. [2129] Pause.) [2131] Ah what a fool I am! [2132] It's ^{I'm on the wrong} the wrong side. [2133] (He gets down, takes a few paces towards window right.) [2134] Under water! [2135] (He goes back for the ladder.) [2136] What a fool I am! [2137] (He drags ladder towards window right.) [2138] Sometimes I wonder if I'm in my right senses. [2139] Then it passes off and I'm as intelligent as ever. [2140] (He sets down ladder under window right, gets up on it, looks out of window. [2141] He turns towards Hamm.) [2142] Any particular sector you're interested in? ^fancy [2144] Or merely the whole thing ^lot?

[2146] Whole thing.

[2147] The general effect? [2148] (Pause. [2149] He turns towards window.) [2150] Let's see.

[2152] Clov.

[2153] (absorbed). [2154] Mmm.

[2155] Do you know what it is?

[2156] '⁽as before). [2157] Mmm.

[2158] O^I was never there. [2159] (Pause.) [2160] Clov!

[2161] (turning towards Hamm, exasperated). [2162] What is it?

[2163] I was never there.

[2164] Lucky for you.

[2166] Absent, always. [2167] It ^[xx] all happened without me. [2168] I don't know what's happened. [2169] (Pause.) [2170] Do you know what's happened? [2171] (Pause.) [2172] Clov!

[2173] (turning towards Hamm, exasperated). [2174] Do you want me to look at this muckheap, yes or no?

[2175] Answer me first.

[2176] What?

[2177] Do you know what's happened?

[2178] When? [2179] Where?

[2180] (violently). [2181] When! [2182] What's happened! [2183] Do you not understand? [2184] What has happened?

[2185] What the hell does it matter?

[2187] I don't know.

[2190] (harshly). [2191] When old Mother Pegg asked you for oil for her lamp and you sent her packing ^{told her to go hell} , you knew what was happening then, no? [2192] (Pause.) [2193] You know what she died of, Mother Pegg? [2194] Of darkness.

[2195] (feebly). [2196] I hadn't any.

[2197] (as before). [2198] Yes, you a^had.

[2200] Have you the glass?

[2201] No, [2202] it's clear enough as it is.

[2203] Go and get it.

[2208] There's one thing I'll never understand. [2209] (He gets down.)

[2210] Why I always obey you. [2211] Can you explain that to me?

[2212] No...[2213]Perhaps it's compassion. [2214] (Pause.) [2215] A kind of great compassion. [2216] (Pause.) [2217] Oh you won't find it easy, you won't find it easy.

[2221] I'l tired of our goin[x]^gs on, very tired. [2222] (He searches.) [2223] You're not sitting on it?

[2225] (anguished). [2226] Don't leave me there! [2227] (Angrily Clov puts the chair back in its place.) [2229] Am I right in the centre?

[2230] You'd need a microscope to find this - [2231] (He sees the glass.) [2232] Abo Ah, about time ^{I knew it was I saw it somewhere}.

[2234] Give me the dog.

[2235] (looking). [2236] Quiet!

[2237] (angrily). [2238] Give me the dog!

[2242] There's your dog for you!

[2245] He struck ^hit me!

[2246] You drive me mad, I'm mad!

[2247] If you must strike ^hit me, strike ^hit me with the axe. [2248] (Pause.) [2249] Or with the gaff, strike ^hit mew with the gaff. [2250] Noy^t with the dog. [2251] With the gaff. [2252] Or with the axe.

[2254] (imploring). [2255] Let's stop playing!

[2256] Never! [2257] (Pause.) [2258] Put me in my coffin.

[2259] There are no more coffins.

[2260] Then let there be an end! [2261] (Clov goes towards ladder. [2262] Violently.) [2263] With a bang! [2264] (Clov gets up on ladder, gets down again, looks for glass, sees it, p^ picks it up, gets up on ladder, raises glass.) [2265] Of darkness! [2266] And me? [2267] Did anyone ever have pity on me?

[2268] (lowering the glass, turning towards Hamm). [2269] What? [2270] (Pause.) [2271] Is it me you're referring to?

[2272] (angrily). [2273] An aside, [2274] ape! [2275] Did you never hear an asoⁱde before? [2276] (Pause.) [2277] I'm warming up for my last soliloquy.

[2278] I warn you. [2279] I'm going to have a look at this filth since you insist ^{it's an order.}. [2280] But it's the last time. [2281] (He turns the glass on the without.) [2282] Let(s see. [2283] (He moves the glass.) [2284] Nothing..nothing...good...good...nothing...goo - [2285] (He starts, lowers the glass, examines it, turns it again on the without. [2286] Pause.) [2287] Bad luck to it!

[2288] More complications! [2289] (Clov gets down.) [2290] Not an underplot, I hope.

[2321] (dismayed). [2322] Looks like a small boy!

[2322|001] (sarcastic). [2322|002] A small...boy!

[2351] I'll go and see. [2352] (He gets down, drops the glass, goes towards the door, turns.) [2353] I'll take the gaff.

[2355] No!

[2357] No? [2358] A potential procreator?

[2359] If he exists he'll come here or he'll die there. [2360] A,ⁿd if he doesn't exist...

[2362] You don't believe me? [2363] You think I'm making it up ^{romancing inventing.}?

[2365] It's the end, Clov, we've come to the end. [2366] I don't need you any more.

[2368] Lucky for you. ^{You're in luck. Lucky for you.}

[2370] Leave me the gaff.

[2373] I'm^ll leave you.

[2375] Before you go...(Clov halts hear door)...say something.

[2376] There's nothing to say.

[2377] A few wot^rds...that I can ponder...in my heart.

[2378] Your heart!

[2379] Yes. [2380] (Pause. [2381] Forcibly.) [2382] Yes! [2383] (Pause.) [2384] With the rest, in the end, the shadows, the murmurs, all the trouble, to endup with. [2385] (Pause.) [2386] Clov...[2387](Pause.) [2388] He never spoke to me. [2389] Then in the end, before he went, without my having asked him, he spoke to me. [2390] He said...

[2391] (despairing). [2392] Ah...!

[2393] Something...from your heart.

[2394] My heart!

[2395] A few words...from your heart.

[2396] (sings).



[2399] Enough?

[2400] (bitterly). [2401] A spit!

[2403] (fixed gaze, tonelessly). [2404] They said to me, That's love, yes, yes, not a doubt, now you see how -

[2405] Articulate!

[2406] (as before). [2407] How easy ^{simple easy} it is. [2408] They said to me, That's friendship, yes, yes, no question, you've found it. [2409] They said to me, Here's the place, stop, raise your head and look at all that spe^lendour ^loveliness. [2410] That order! [2411] They said to me, Come now, you're not a brute beast, think these things over and you'll see how all becomes clear. [2412] And simple! [2413] They said to me, What skilled attention they get, all these wounded unto death! ^{dying of their wounds.}