Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Krapp's Last Tape / La Dernière Bande

MS-HRC-SB-5-4

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Segment 1

[0415] Here I end this reel.[0416] Box - (pause) - three, spool -
(pause)- five.
[0417] (pause)[0418] Perhaps my best years are
gone.
[0419] When there was a chance of happiness.[0420] But I
wouldn't want them back.
[0421] Not with the fire in me now.
[0422] No, I wouldn't want them back.

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Segment 2

[0423] (KRAPP motionless staring before him.
[0424] The tape runs on in silence.

[0424|001] FADE OUT STAGE and den till only
light "eye" of tape-recorder)

[0425] CURTAIN

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