Great Works Annotation Project

Endgame by Samuel Beckett

¶ 1 Leave a comment on paragraph 1 1 Bare interior.

¶ 2 Leave a comment on paragraph 2 0 Grey Light.

¶ 3 Leave a comment on paragraph 3 0 Left and right back, high up, two small windows, curtains drawn.

¶ 4 Leave a comment on paragraph 4 0 Front right, a door.

¶ 5 Leave a comment on paragraph 5 0 Hanging near door, its face to wall, a picture.

¶ 6 Leave a comment on paragraph 6 0 Front left, touching each other, covered with an old sheet, two ashbins.

¶ 7 Leave a comment on paragraph 7 1 Center, in an armchair on castors, covered with an old sheet, Hamm.

¶ 8 Leave a comment on paragraph 8 0 Motionless by the door, his eyes fixed on Hamm, Clov. Very red face.

¶ 9 Leave a comment on paragraph 9 0 Brief tableau.

¶ 10 Leave a comment on paragraph 10 0 Clov goes and stands under window left. Stiff, staggering walk. He looks up at window left. He turns and looks at window right. He goes and stands under window right. He looks up at window right. He turns and looks at window left. He goes out, comes back immediately with a small step-ladder, carries it over and sets it down under window left, gets up on it, draws back curtain. He gets down, takes six steps (for example) towards window right, goes back for ladder, carries it over and sets it down under window right, gets up on it, draws back curtain. He gets down, takes three steps towards window left, goes back for ladder, carries it over and sets it down under window left, gets up on it, looks out of window. Brief laugh. He gets down, takes one step towards window right, goes back for ladder, carries it over and sets it down under window right, gets up on it, looks out of window. Brief laugh. He gets down, goes with ladder towards ashbins, halts, turns, carries back ladder and sets it down under window right, goes to ashbins, removes sheet covering them, folds it over his arm. He raises one lid, stoops and looks into bin. Brief laugh. He closes lid. Same with other bin. He goes to Hamm, removes sheet covering him, folds it over his arm. In a dressing-gown, a stiff toque on his head, a large blood-stained handkerchief over his face, a whistle hanging from his neck, a rug over his knees, thick socks on his feet, Hamm seems to be asleep. Clov looks him over. Brief laugh. He goes to door, halts, turns towards auditorium.

¶ 11 Leave a comment on paragraph 11 0 CLOV (fixed gaze, tonelessly):

¶ 12 Leave a comment on paragraph 12 0 Finished, it’s finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished.

¶ 13 Leave a comment on paragraph 13 0 (Pause.)

¶ 14 Leave a comment on paragraph 14 0 Grain upon grain, one by one, and one day, suddenly, there’s a heap, a little heap, the impossible heap.

¶ 15 Leave a comment on paragraph 15 0 (Pause.)

¶ 16 Leave a comment on paragraph 16 0 I can’t be punished any more.

¶ 17 Leave a comment on paragraph 17 0 (Pause.)

¶ 18 Leave a comment on paragraph 18 0 I’ll go now to my kitchen, ten feet by ten feet by ten feet, and wait for him to whistle me.

¶ 19 Leave a comment on paragraph 19 0 (Pause.)

¶ 20 Leave a comment on paragraph 20 0 Nice dimensions, nice proportions, I’ll lean on the table, and look at the wall, and wait for him to whistle me.

¶ 21 Leave a comment on paragraph 21 0 (He remains a moment motionless, then goes out. He comes back immediately, goes to window right, takes up the ladder and carries it out. Pause. Hamm stirs. He yawns under the handkerchief. He removes the handkerchief from his face. Very red face. Glasses with black lenses.)

¶ 22 Leave a comment on paragraph 22 0 HAMM:

¶ 23 Leave a comment on paragraph 23 0 Me—

¶ 24 Leave a comment on paragraph 24 0 (he yawns)

¶ 25 Leave a comment on paragraph 25 0 —to play.

¶ 26 Leave a comment on paragraph 26 0 (He takes off his glasses, wipes his eyes, his face, the glasses, puts them on again, folds the handkerchief and puts it back neatly in the breast pocket of his dressing gown. He clears his throat, joins the tips of his fingers.)

¶ 27 Leave a comment on paragraph 27 0 Can there be misery—

¶ 28 Leave a comment on paragraph 28 0 (he yawns)

¶ 29 Leave a comment on paragraph 29 0 —loftier than mine? No doubt. Formerly. But now?

¶ 30 Leave a comment on paragraph 30 0 (Pause.)

¶ 31 Leave a comment on paragraph 31 0 My father?

¶ 32 Leave a comment on paragraph 32 0 (Pause.)

¶ 33 Leave a comment on paragraph 33 0 My mother?

¶ 34 Leave a comment on paragraph 34 0 (Pause.)

¶ 35 Leave a comment on paragraph 35 0 My… dog?

¶ 36 Leave a comment on paragraph 36 0 (Pause.)

¶ 37 Leave a comment on paragraph 37 0 Oh I am willing to believe they suffer as much as such creatures can suffer. But does that mean their sufferings equal mine? No doubt.

¶ 38 Leave a comment on paragraph 38 0 (Pause.)

¶ 39 Leave a comment on paragraph 39 0 No, all is a—

¶ 40 Leave a comment on paragraph 40 0 (he yawns) —bsolute,

¶ 41 Leave a comment on paragraph 41 0 (proudly)

¶ 42 Leave a comment on paragraph 42 0 the bigger a man is the fuller he is.

¶ 43 Leave a comment on paragraph 43 0 (Pause. Gloomily.)

¶ 44 Leave a comment on paragraph 44 0 And the emptier.

¶ 45 Leave a comment on paragraph 45 0 (He sniffs.)

¶ 46 Leave a comment on paragraph 46 0 Clov!

¶ 47 Leave a comment on paragraph 47 0 (Pause.)

¶ 48 Leave a comment on paragraph 48 0 No, alone.

¶ 49 Leave a comment on paragraph 49 0 (Pause.)

¶ 50 Leave a comment on paragraph 50 0 What dreams! Those forests!

¶ 51 Leave a comment on paragraph 51 0 (Pause.)

¶ 52 Leave a comment on paragraph 52 0 Enough, it’s time it ended, in the shelter, too.

¶ 53 Leave a comment on paragraph 53 0 (Pause.)

¶ 54 Leave a comment on paragraph 54 0 And yet I hesitate, I hesitate to…to end.Yes, there it is, it’s time it ended and yet I hesitate to—

¶ 55 Leave a comment on paragraph 55 0 (He yawns.)

¶ 56 Leave a comment on paragraph 56 0 —to end.

¶ 57 Leave a comment on paragraph 57 0 (Yawns.)

¶ 58 Leave a comment on paragraph 58 0 God, I’m tired, I’d be better off in bed.

¶ 59 Leave a comment on paragraph 59 0 (He whistles. Enter Clov immediately. He halts beside the chair.)

¶ 60 Leave a comment on paragraph 60 0 You pollute the air!

¶ 61 Leave a comment on paragraph 61 0 (Pause.)

¶ 62 Leave a comment on paragraph 62 1 Get me ready, I’m going to bed.

¶ 63 Leave a comment on paragraph 63 0 CLOV:

¶ 64 Leave a comment on paragraph 64 0 I’ve just got you up.

¶ 65 Leave a comment on paragraph 65 0 HAMM:

¶ 66 Leave a comment on paragraph 66 0 And what of it?

¶ 67 Leave a comment on paragraph 67 0 CLOV:

¶ 68 Leave a comment on paragraph 68 0 I can’t be getting you up and putting you to bed every five minutes, I have things to do.

¶ 69 Leave a comment on paragraph 69 0 (Pause.)

¶ 70 Leave a comment on paragraph 70 0 HAMM:

¶ 71 Leave a comment on paragraph 71 0 Did you ever see my eyes?

¶ 72 Leave a comment on paragraph 72 0 CLOV:

¶ 73 Leave a comment on paragraph 73 0 No.

¶ 74 Leave a comment on paragraph 74 0 HAMM:

¶ 75 Leave a comment on paragraph 75 0 Did you never have the curiosity, while I was sleeping, to take off my glasses and look at my eyes?

¶ 76 Leave a comment on paragraph 76 0 CLOV:

¶ 77 Leave a comment on paragraph 77 0 Pulling back the lids?

¶ 78 Leave a comment on paragraph 78 0 (Pause.)

¶ 79 Leave a comment on paragraph 79 0 No.

¶ 80 Leave a comment on paragraph 80 0 HAMM:

¶ 81 Leave a comment on paragraph 81 0 One of these days I’ll show them to you.

¶ 82 Leave a comment on paragraph 82 0 (Pause.)

¶ 83 Leave a comment on paragraph 83 0 It seems they’ve gone all white.

¶ 84 Leave a comment on paragraph 84 0 (Pause.)

¶ 85 Leave a comment on paragraph 85 0 What time is it?

¶ 86 Leave a comment on paragraph 86 0 CLOV:

¶ 87 Leave a comment on paragraph 87 0 The same as usual.

¶ 88 Leave a comment on paragraph 88 0 HAMM (gesture towards window right):

¶ 89 Leave a comment on paragraph 89 0 Have you looked?

¶ 90 Leave a comment on paragraph 90 0 CLOV:

¶ 91 Leave a comment on paragraph 91 0 Yes.

¶ 92 Leave a comment on paragraph 92 0 HAMM:

¶ 93 Leave a comment on paragraph 93 0 Well?

¶ 94 Leave a comment on paragraph 94 0 CLOV:

¶ 95 Leave a comment on paragraph 95 0 Zero.

¶ 96 Leave a comment on paragraph 96 0 HAMM:

¶ 97 Leave a comment on paragraph 97 0 It’d need to rain.

¶ 98 Leave a comment on paragraph 98 0 CLOV:

¶ 99 Leave a comment on paragraph 99 0 It won’t rain.

¶ 100 Leave a comment on paragraph 100 0 (Pause.)

¶ 101 Leave a comment on paragraph 101 0 HAMM:

¶ 102 Leave a comment on paragraph 102 0 Apart from that, how do you feel?

¶ 103 Leave a comment on paragraph 103 0 CLOV:

¶ 104 Leave a comment on paragraph 104 0 I don’t complain.

¶ 105 Leave a comment on paragraph 105 0 HAMM:

¶ 106 Leave a comment on paragraph 106 0 You feel normal?

¶ 107 Leave a comment on paragraph 107 0 CLOV (irritably):

¶ 108 Leave a comment on paragraph 108 0 I tell you I don’t complain.

¶ 109 Leave a comment on paragraph 109 0 HAMM:

¶ 110 Leave a comment on paragraph 110 0 I feel a little strange.

¶ 111 Leave a comment on paragraph 111 0 (Pause.)

¶ 112 Leave a comment on paragraph 112 0 Clov!

¶ 113 Leave a comment on paragraph 113 0 CLOV:

¶ 114 Leave a comment on paragraph 114 0 Yes.

¶ 115 Leave a comment on paragraph 115 0 HAMM:

¶ 116 Leave a comment on paragraph 116 0 Have you not had enough?

¶ 117 Leave a comment on paragraph 117 0 CLOV:

¶ 118 Leave a comment on paragraph 118 0 Yes!

¶ 119 Leave a comment on paragraph 119 0 (Pause.)

¶ 120 Leave a comment on paragraph 120 0 Of what?

¶ 121 Leave a comment on paragraph 121 0 HAMM:

¶ 122 Leave a comment on paragraph 122 0 Of this… this… thing.

¶ 123 Leave a comment on paragraph 123 0 CLOV:

¶ 124 Leave a comment on paragraph 124 0 I always had.

¶ 125 Leave a comment on paragraph 125 0 (Pause.)

¶ 126 Leave a comment on paragraph 126 0 Not you?

¶ 127 Leave a comment on paragraph 127 0 HAMM (gloomily):

¶ 128 Leave a comment on paragraph 128 0 Then there’s no reason for it to change.

¶ 129 Leave a comment on paragraph 129 0 CLOV:

¶ 130 Leave a comment on paragraph 130 0 It may end.

¶ 131 Leave a comment on paragraph 131 0 (Pause.)

¶ 132 Leave a comment on paragraph 132 0 All life long the same questions, the same answers.

¶ 133 Leave a comment on paragraph 133 0 HAMM:

¶ 134 Leave a comment on paragraph 134 0 Get me ready.

¶ 135 Leave a comment on paragraph 135 0 (Clov does not move.)

¶ 136 Leave a comment on paragraph 136 0 Go and get the sheet.

¶ 137 Leave a comment on paragraph 137 0 (Clov does not move.)

¶ 138 Leave a comment on paragraph 138 0 Clov!

¶ 139 Leave a comment on paragraph 139 0 CLOV:

¶ 140 Leave a comment on paragraph 140 0 Yes.

¶ 141 Leave a comment on paragraph 141 0 HAMM:

¶ 142 Leave a comment on paragraph 142 0 I’ll give you nothing more to eat.

¶ 143 Leave a comment on paragraph 143 0 CLOV:

¶ 144 Leave a comment on paragraph 144 0 Then we’ll die.

¶ 145 Leave a comment on paragraph 145 0 HAMM:

¶ 146 Leave a comment on paragraph 146 0 I’ll give you just enough to keep you from dying.

¶ 147 Leave a comment on paragraph 147 0 You’ll be hungry all the time.

¶ 148 Leave a comment on paragraph 148 0 CLOV:

¶ 149 Leave a comment on paragraph 149 0 Then we won’t die.

¶ 150 Leave a comment on paragraph 150 0 (Pause.)

¶ 151 Leave a comment on paragraph 151 0 I’ll go and get the sheet.

¶ 152 Leave a comment on paragraph 152 0 (He goes towards the door.)

¶ 153 Leave a comment on paragraph 153 0 HAMM:

¶ 154 Leave a comment on paragraph 154 0 No!

¶ 155 Leave a comment on paragraph 155 0 (Clov halts.)

¶ 156 Leave a comment on paragraph 156 0 I’ll give you one biscuit per day.

¶ 157 Leave a comment on paragraph 157 0 (Pause.)

¶ 158 Leave a comment on paragraph 158 0 One and a half.

¶ 159 Leave a comment on paragraph 159 0 (Pause.)

¶ 160 Leave a comment on paragraph 160 0 Why do you stay with me?

¶ 161 Leave a comment on paragraph 161 0 CLOV:

¶ 162 Leave a comment on paragraph 162 0 Why do you keep me?

¶ 163 Leave a comment on paragraph 163 0 HAMM:

¶ 164 Leave a comment on paragraph 164 0 There’s no one else.

¶ 165 Leave a comment on paragraph 165 0 CLOV:

¶ 166 Leave a comment on paragraph 166 0 There’s nowhere else.

¶ 167 Leave a comment on paragraph 167 0 (Pause.)

¶ 168 Leave a comment on paragraph 168 0 HAMM:

¶ 169 Leave a comment on paragraph 169 0 You’re leaving me all the same.

¶ 170 Leave a comment on paragraph 170 0 CLOV:

¶ 171 Leave a comment on paragraph 171 0 I’m trying.

¶ 172 Leave a comment on paragraph 172 0 HAMM:

¶ 173 Leave a comment on paragraph 173 0 You don’t love me.

¶ 174 Leave a comment on paragraph 174 0 CLOV:

¶ 175 Leave a comment on paragraph 175 0 No.

¶ 176 Leave a comment on paragraph 176 0 HAMM:

¶ 177 Leave a comment on paragraph 177 0 You loved me once.

¶ 178 Leave a comment on paragraph 178 0 CLOV:

¶ 179 Leave a comment on paragraph 179 0 Once!

¶ 180 Leave a comment on paragraph 180 0 HAMM:

¶ 181 Leave a comment on paragraph 181 0 I’ve made you suffer too much.

¶ 182 Leave a comment on paragraph 182 0 (Pause.)

¶ 183 Leave a comment on paragraph 183 0 Haven’t I?

¶ 184 Leave a comment on paragraph 184 0 CLOV:

¶ 185 Leave a comment on paragraph 185 0 It’s not that.

¶ 186 Leave a comment on paragraph 186 0 HAMM:

¶ 187 Leave a comment on paragraph 187 0 I haven’t made you suffer too much?

¶ 188 Leave a comment on paragraph 188 0 CLOV:

¶ 189 Leave a comment on paragraph 189 0 Yes!

¶ 190 Leave a comment on paragraph 190 0 HAMM (relieved):

¶ 191 Leave a comment on paragraph 191 0 Ah, you gave me a fright!

¶ 192 Leave a comment on paragraph 192 0 (Pause. Coldly)

¶ 193 Leave a comment on paragraph 193 0 Forgive me.

¶ 194 Leave a comment on paragraph 194 0 (Pause. Louder.)

¶ 195 Leave a comment on paragraph 195 0 I said, Forgive me.

¶ 196 Leave a comment on paragraph 196 0 CLOV:

¶ 197 Leave a comment on paragraph 197 0 I heard you.

¶ 198 Leave a comment on paragraph 198 0 (Pause.)

¶ 199 Leave a comment on paragraph 199 0 Have you bled?

¶ 200 Leave a comment on paragraph 200 0 HAMM:

¶ 201 Leave a comment on paragraph 201 0 Less.

¶ 202 Leave a comment on paragraph 202 0 (Pause.)

¶ 203 Leave a comment on paragraph 203 0 Is it not time for my pain-killer?

¶ 204 Leave a comment on paragraph 204 0 CLOV:

¶ 205 Leave a comment on paragraph 205 0 No.

¶ 206 Leave a comment on paragraph 206 0 (Pause.)

¶ 207 Leave a comment on paragraph 207 0 HAMM:

¶ 208 Leave a comment on paragraph 208 0 How are your eyes?

¶ 209 Leave a comment on paragraph 209 0 CLOV:

¶ 210 Leave a comment on paragraph 210 0 Bad.

¶ 211 Leave a comment on paragraph 211 0 HAMM:

¶ 212 Leave a comment on paragraph 212 0 How are your legs?

¶ 213 Leave a comment on paragraph 213 0 CLOV:

¶ 214 Leave a comment on paragraph 214 0 Bad.

¶ 215 Leave a comment on paragraph 215 0 HAMM:

¶ 216 Leave a comment on paragraph 216 0 But you can move.

¶ 217 Leave a comment on paragraph 217 0 CLOV:

¶ 218 Leave a comment on paragraph 218 0 Yes.

¶ 219 Leave a comment on paragraph 219 0 HAMM (violently):

¶ 220 Leave a comment on paragraph 220 0 Then move!

¶ 221 Leave a comment on paragraph 221 0 (Clov goes to back wall, leans against it with his forehead and hands.)

¶ 222 Leave a comment on paragraph 222 0 Where are you?

¶ 223 Leave a comment on paragraph 223 0 CLOV:

¶ 224 Leave a comment on paragraph 224 0 Here.

¶ 225 Leave a comment on paragraph 225 0 HAMM:

¶ 226 Leave a comment on paragraph 226 0 Come back!

¶ 227 Leave a comment on paragraph 227 0 (Clov returns to his place beside the chair.)

¶ 228 Leave a comment on paragraph 228 0 Where are you?

¶ 229 Leave a comment on paragraph 229 0 CLOV:

¶ 230 Leave a comment on paragraph 230 0 Here.

¶ 231 Leave a comment on paragraph 231 0 HAMM:

¶ 232 Leave a comment on paragraph 232 0 Why don’t you kill me?

¶ 233 Leave a comment on paragraph 233 0 CLOV:

¶ 234 Leave a comment on paragraph 234 0 I don’t know the combination of the cupboard.

¶ 235 Leave a comment on paragraph 235 0 (Pause.)

¶ 236 Leave a comment on paragraph 236 0 HAMM:

¶ 237 Leave a comment on paragraph 237 0 Go and get two bicycle-wheels.

¶ 238 Leave a comment on paragraph 238 0 CLOV:

¶ 239 Leave a comment on paragraph 239 0 There are no more bicycle-wheels.

¶ 240 Leave a comment on paragraph 240 0 HAMM:

¶ 241 Leave a comment on paragraph 241 0 What have you done with your bicycle?

¶ 242 Leave a comment on paragraph 242 0 CLOV:

¶ 243 Leave a comment on paragraph 243 0 I never had a bicycle.

¶ 244 Leave a comment on paragraph 244 0 HAMM:

¶ 245 Leave a comment on paragraph 245 0 The thing is impossible.

¶ 246 Leave a comment on paragraph 246 0 CLOV:

¶ 247 Leave a comment on paragraph 247 0 When there were still bicycles I wept to have one.I crawled at your feet. You told me to go to hell. Now there are none.

¶ 248 Leave a comment on paragraph 248 0 HAMM:

¶ 249 Leave a comment on paragraph 249 0 And your rounds? When you inspected my paupers. Always on foot?

¶ 250 Leave a comment on paragraph 250 0 CLOV:

¶ 251 Leave a comment on paragraph 251 0 Sometimes on horse.

¶ 252 Leave a comment on paragraph 252 0 (The lid of one of the bins lifts and the hands of Nagg appear, gripping the rim. Then his head emerges. Nightcap. Very white face. Nagg yawns, then listens.)

¶ 253 Leave a comment on paragraph 253 0 I’ll leave you, I have things to do.

¶ 254 Leave a comment on paragraph 254 0 HAMM:

¶ 255 Leave a comment on paragraph 255 0 In your kitchen?

¶ 256 Leave a comment on paragraph 256 0 CLOV:

¶ 257 Leave a comment on paragraph 257 0 Yes.

¶ 258 Leave a comment on paragraph 258 0 HAMM:

¶ 259 Leave a comment on paragraph 259 0 Outside of here it’s death.

¶ 260 Leave a comment on paragraph 260 0 (Pause.)

¶ 261 Leave a comment on paragraph 261 0 All right, be off.

¶ 262 Leave a comment on paragraph 262 0 (Exit Clov. Pause.)

¶ 263 Leave a comment on paragraph 263 0 We’re getting on.

¶ 264 Leave a comment on paragraph 264 0 NAGG:

¶ 265 Leave a comment on paragraph 265 0 Me pap!

¶ 266 Leave a comment on paragraph 266 0 HAMM:

¶ 267 Leave a comment on paragraph 267 0 Accursed progenitor!

¶ 268 Leave a comment on paragraph 268 0 NAGG:

¶ 269 Leave a comment on paragraph 269 0 Me pap!

¶ 270 Leave a comment on paragraph 270 0 HAMM:

¶ 271 Leave a comment on paragraph 271 0 The old folks at home! No decency left! Guzzle, guzzle, that’s all they think of.

¶ 272 Leave a comment on paragraph 272 0 (He whistles. Enter Clov. He halts beside the chair.)

¶ 273 Leave a comment on paragraph 273 0 Well! I thought you were leaving me.

¶ 274 Leave a comment on paragraph 274 0 CLOV:

¶ 275 Leave a comment on paragraph 275 0 Oh not just yet, not just yet.

¶ 276 Leave a comment on paragraph 276 0 NAGG:

¶ 277 Leave a comment on paragraph 277 0 Me pap!

¶ 278 Leave a comment on paragraph 278 0 HAMM:

¶ 279 Leave a comment on paragraph 279 0 Give him his pap.

¶ 280 Leave a comment on paragraph 280 0 CLOV:

¶ 281 Leave a comment on paragraph 281 0 There’s no more pap.

¶ 282 Leave a comment on paragraph 282 0 HAMM (to Nagg):

¶ 283 Leave a comment on paragraph 283 0 Do you hear that? There’s no more pap. You’ll never get any more pap.

¶ 284 Leave a comment on paragraph 284 0 NAGG:

¶ 285 Leave a comment on paragraph 285 0 I want me pap!

¶ 286 Leave a comment on paragraph 286 0 HAMM:

¶ 287 Leave a comment on paragraph 287 0 Give him a biscuit.

¶ 288 Leave a comment on paragraph 288 0 (Exit Clov.)

¶ 289 Leave a comment on paragraph 289 0 Accursed fornicator! How are your stumps?

¶ 290 Leave a comment on paragraph 290 0 NAGG:

¶ 291 Leave a comment on paragraph 291 0 Never mind me stumps.

¶ 292 Leave a comment on paragraph 292 0 (Enter Clov with biscuit.)

¶ 293 Leave a comment on paragraph 293 0 CLOV:

¶ 294 Leave a comment on paragraph 294 0 I’m back again, with the biscuit.

¶ 295 Leave a comment on paragraph 295 0 (He gives biscuit to Nagg who fingers it, sniffs it.)

¶ 296 Leave a comment on paragraph 296 0 NAGG (plaintively):

¶ 297 Leave a comment on paragraph 297 0 What is it?

¶ 298 Leave a comment on paragraph 298 0 CLOV:

¶ 299 Leave a comment on paragraph 299 0 Spratt’s medium.

¶ 300 Leave a comment on paragraph 300 0 NAGG (as before):

¶ 301 Leave a comment on paragraph 301 0 It’s hard! I can’t!

¶ 302 Leave a comment on paragraph 302 0 HAMM:

¶ 303 Leave a comment on paragraph 303 0 Bottle him!

¶ 304 Leave a comment on paragraph 304 0 (Clov pushes Nagg back into the bin, closes the lid.)

¶ 305 Leave a comment on paragraph 305 0 CLOV (returning to his place beside the chair):

¶ 306 Leave a comment on paragraph 306 0 If age but knew!

¶ 307 Leave a comment on paragraph 307 0 HAMM:

¶ 308 Leave a comment on paragraph 308 0 Sit on him!

¶ 309 Leave a comment on paragraph 309 0 CLOV: I can’t sit.

¶ 310 Leave a comment on paragraph 310 0 HAMM:

¶ 311 Leave a comment on paragraph 311 0 True.

¶ 312 Leave a comment on paragraph 312 0 And I can’t stand.

¶ 313 Leave a comment on paragraph 313 0 CLOV:

¶ 314 Leave a comment on paragraph 314 0 So it is.

¶ 315 Leave a comment on paragraph 315 0 HAMM:

¶ 316 Leave a comment on paragraph 316 0 Every man his specialty.

¶ 317 Leave a comment on paragraph 317 0 (Pause.)

¶ 318 Leave a comment on paragraph 318 0 No phone calls?

¶ 319 Leave a comment on paragraph 319 0 (Pause.)

¶ 320 Leave a comment on paragraph 320 0 Don’t we laugh?

¶ 321 Leave a comment on paragraph 321 0 CLOV (after reflection):

¶ 322 Leave a comment on paragraph 322 0 I don’t feel like it.

¶ 323 Leave a comment on paragraph 323 0 HAMM (after reflection):

¶ 324 Leave a comment on paragraph 324 0 Nor I.

¶ 325 Leave a comment on paragraph 325 0 (Pause.)

¶ 326 Leave a comment on paragraph 326 0 Clov!

¶ 327 Leave a comment on paragraph 327 0 CLOV:

¶ 328 Leave a comment on paragraph 328 0 Yes.

¶ 329 Leave a comment on paragraph 329 0 HAMM:

¶ 330 Leave a comment on paragraph 330 2 Nature has forgotten us.

¶ 331 Leave a comment on paragraph 331 0 CLOV:

¶ 332 Leave a comment on paragraph 332 0 There’s no more nature.

¶ 333 Leave a comment on paragraph 333 0 HAMM:

¶ 334 Leave a comment on paragraph 334 0 No more nature! You exaggerate.

¶ 335 Leave a comment on paragraph 335 0 CLOV:

¶ 336 Leave a comment on paragraph 336 0 In the vicinity.

¶ 337 Leave a comment on paragraph 337 0 HAMM:

¶ 338 Leave a comment on paragraph 338 0 But we breathe, we change! We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom! Our ideals!

¶ 339 Leave a comment on paragraph 339 0 CLOV:

¶ 340 Leave a comment on paragraph 340 0 Then she hasn’t forgotten us.

¶ 341 Leave a comment on paragraph 341 0 HAMM:

¶ 342 Leave a comment on paragraph 342 0 But you say there is none.

¶ 343 Leave a comment on paragraph 343 0 CLOV (sadly):

¶ 344 Leave a comment on paragraph 344 0 No one that ever lived ever thought so crooked as we.

¶ 345 Leave a comment on paragraph 345 0 HAMM:

¶ 346 Leave a comment on paragraph 346 0 We do what we can.

¶ 347 Leave a comment on paragraph 347 0 CLOV:

¶ 348 Leave a comment on paragraph 348 0 We shouldn’t.

¶ 349 Leave a comment on paragraph 349 0 (Pause.)

¶ 350 Leave a comment on paragraph 350 0 HAMM:

¶ 351 Leave a comment on paragraph 351 0 You’re a bit of all right, aren’t you?

¶ 352 Leave a comment on paragraph 352 0 CLOV:

¶ 353 Leave a comment on paragraph 353 0 A smithereen.

¶ 354 Leave a comment on paragraph 354 0 (Pause.)

¶ 355 Leave a comment on paragraph 355 0 HAMM:

¶ 356 Leave a comment on paragraph 356 0 This is slow work.

¶ 357 Leave a comment on paragraph 357 0 (Pause.)

¶ 358 Leave a comment on paragraph 358 0 Is it not time for my pain-killer?

¶ 359 Leave a comment on paragraph 359 0 CLOV:

¶ 360 Leave a comment on paragraph 360 0 No.

¶ 361 Leave a comment on paragraph 361 0 (Pause.)

¶ 362 Leave a comment on paragraph 362 0 I’ll leave you, I have things to do.

¶ 363 Leave a comment on paragraph 363 0 HAMM:

¶ 364 Leave a comment on paragraph 364 0 In your kitchen?

¶ 365 Leave a comment on paragraph 365 0 CLOV:

¶ 366 Leave a comment on paragraph 366 0 Yes.

¶ 367 Leave a comment on paragraph 367 0 HAMM:

¶ 368 Leave a comment on paragraph 368 0 What, I’d like to know.

¶ 369 Leave a comment on paragraph 369 0 CLOV:

¶ 370 Leave a comment on paragraph 370 0 I look at the wall.

¶ 371 Leave a comment on paragraph 371 0 HAMM:

¶ 372 Leave a comment on paragraph 372 0 The wall!

¶ 373 Leave a comment on paragraph 373 0 And what do you see on your wall? Mene, mene? Naked bodies?

¶ 374 Leave a comment on paragraph 374 0 CLOV:

¶ 375 Leave a comment on paragraph 375 0 I see my light dying.

¶ 376 Leave a comment on paragraph 376 0 HAMM:

¶ 377 Leave a comment on paragraph 377 0 Your light dying!

¶ 378 Leave a comment on paragraph 378 0 Listen to that! Well, it can die just as well here, your light. Take a look at me and then come back and tell me what you think of your light.

¶ 379 Leave a comment on paragraph 379 0 (Pause.)

¶ 380 Leave a comment on paragraph 380 0 CLOV: You shouldn’t speak to me like that.

¶ 381 Leave a comment on paragraph 381 0 (Pause.)

¶ 382 Leave a comment on paragraph 382 0 HAMM (coldly):

¶ 383 Leave a comment on paragraph 383 0 Forgive me.

¶ 384 Leave a comment on paragraph 384 0 (Pause. Louder.)

¶ 385 Leave a comment on paragraph 385 0 I said, Forgive me.

¶ 386 Leave a comment on paragraph 386 0 CLOV: I heard you.

¶ 387 Leave a comment on paragraph 387 0 (The lid of Nagg’s bin lifts. His hands appear, gripping the rim. Then his head emerges. In his mouth the biscuit. He listens.)

¶ 388 Leave a comment on paragraph 388 0 HAMM:

¶ 389 Leave a comment on paragraph 389 0 Did your seeds come up?

¶ 390 Leave a comment on paragraph 390 0 CLOV: No.

¶ 391 Leave a comment on paragraph 391 0 HAMM: Did you scratch round them to see if they had sprouted?

¶ 392 Leave a comment on paragraph 392 0 CLOV: They haven’t sprouted.

¶ 393 Leave a comment on paragraph 393 0 HAMM: Perhaps it’s still too early.

¶ 394 Leave a comment on paragraph 394 0 CLOV: If they were going to sprout they would have sprouted.

¶ 395 Leave a comment on paragraph 395 0 (Violently.)

¶ 396 Leave a comment on paragraph 396 0 They’ll never sprout!

¶ 397 Leave a comment on paragraph 397 0 (Pause. Nagg takes biscuit in his hand.)

¶ 398 Leave a comment on paragraph 398 0 HAMM: This is not much fun.

¶ 399 Leave a comment on paragraph 399 0 (Pause.)

¶ 400 Leave a comment on paragraph 400 0 But that’s always the way at the end of the day, isn’t it, Clov?

¶ 401 Leave a comment on paragraph 401 0 CLOV:

¶ 402 Leave a comment on paragraph 402 0 Always.

¶ 403 Leave a comment on paragraph 403 0 HAMM:

¶ 404 Leave a comment on paragraph 404 0 It’s the end of the day like any other day, isn’t it, Clov?

¶ 405 Leave a comment on paragraph 405 0 CLOV: Looks like it.

¶ 406 Leave a comment on paragraph 406 0 (Pause.)

¶ 407 Leave a comment on paragraph 407 0 HAMM(anguished):

¶ 408 Leave a comment on paragraph 408 0 What’s happening, what’s happening?

¶ 409 Leave a comment on paragraph 409 0 CLOV:

¶ 410 Leave a comment on paragraph 410 0 Something is taking its course

¶ 411 Leave a comment on paragraph 411 0 . (Pause.)

¶ 412 Leave a comment on paragraph 412 0 HAMM:

¶ 413 Leave a comment on paragraph 413 0 All right, be off.

¶ 414 Leave a comment on paragraph 414 0 (He leans back in his chair, remains motionless. Clov does not move, heaves a great groaning sigh. Hamm sits up.)

¶ 415 Leave a comment on paragraph 415 0 I thought I told you to be off.

¶ 416 Leave a comment on paragraph 416 0 CLOV:

¶ 417 Leave a comment on paragraph 417 0 I’m trying.

¶ 418 Leave a comment on paragraph 418 0 (He goes to the door, halts.)

¶ 419 Leave a comment on paragraph 419 0 Ever since I was whelped.

¶ 420 Leave a comment on paragraph 420 0 (Exit Clov.)

¶ 421 Leave a comment on paragraph 421 0 HAMM:

¶ 422 Leave a comment on paragraph 422 0 We’re getting on.

¶ 423 Leave a comment on paragraph 423 0 (He leans back in his chair, remains motionless. Nagg knocks on the lid of the other bin. Pause. He knocks harder. The lid lifts and the hands of Nell appear, gripping the rim. Then her head emerges. Lace cap. Very white face.)

¶ 424 Leave a comment on paragraph 424 0 NELL:

¶ 425 Leave a comment on paragraph 425 0 What is it, my pet?

¶ 426 Leave a comment on paragraph 426 0 (Pause.)

¶ 427 Leave a comment on paragraph 427 0 Time for love?

¶ 428 Leave a comment on paragraph 428 0 NAGG:

¶ 429 Leave a comment on paragraph 429 0 Were you asleep?

¶ 430 Leave a comment on paragraph 430 0 NELL:

¶ 431 Leave a comment on paragraph 431 0 Oh no!

¶ 432 Leave a comment on paragraph 432 0 NAGG:

¶ 433 Leave a comment on paragraph 433 0 Kiss me.

¶ 434 Leave a comment on paragraph 434 0 NELL:

¶ 435 Leave a comment on paragraph 435 0 We can’t.

¶ 436 Leave a comment on paragraph 436 0 NAGG:

¶ 437 Leave a comment on paragraph 437 0 Try.

¶ 438 Leave a comment on paragraph 438 0 (Their heads strain towards each other, fail to meet, fall apart again.)

¶ 439 Leave a comment on paragraph 439 0 NELL:

¶ 440 Leave a comment on paragraph 440 0 Why this farce, day after day?

¶ 441 Leave a comment on paragraph 441 0 (Pause.)

¶ 442 Leave a comment on paragraph 442 0 NAGG:

¶ 443 Leave a comment on paragraph 443 0 I’ve lost me tooth.

¶ 444 Leave a comment on paragraph 444 0 NELL:

¶ 445 Leave a comment on paragraph 445 0 When?

¶ 446 Leave a comment on paragraph 446 0 NAGG:

¶ 447 Leave a comment on paragraph 447 0 I had it yesterday.

¶ 448 Leave a comment on paragraph 448 0 NELL (elegiac):

¶ 449 Leave a comment on paragraph 449 0 Ah yesterday.

¶ 450 Leave a comment on paragraph 450 0 (They turn painfully towards each other.)

¶ 451 Leave a comment on paragraph 451 0 NAGG:

¶ 452 Leave a comment on paragraph 452 0 Can you see me?

¶ 453 Leave a comment on paragraph 453 0 NELL:

¶ 454 Leave a comment on paragraph 454 0 Hardly. And you?

¶ 455 Leave a comment on paragraph 455 0 NAGG:

¶ 456 Leave a comment on paragraph 456 0 What?

¶ 457 Leave a comment on paragraph 457 0 NELL:

¶ 458 Leave a comment on paragraph 458 0 Can you see me?

¶ 459 Leave a comment on paragraph 459 0 NAGG:

¶ 460 Leave a comment on paragraph 460 0 Hardly.

¶ 461 Leave a comment on paragraph 461 0 NELL:

¶ 462 Leave a comment on paragraph 462 0 So much the better, so much the better.

¶ 463 Leave a comment on paragraph 463 0 NAGG:

¶ 464 Leave a comment on paragraph 464 0 Don’t say that.

¶ 465 Leave a comment on paragraph 465 0 (Pause.)

¶ 466 Leave a comment on paragraph 466 0 Our sight has failed.

¶ 467 Leave a comment on paragraph 467 0 NELL:

¶ 468 Leave a comment on paragraph 468 0 Yes.

¶ 469 Leave a comment on paragraph 469 0 (Pause. They turn away from each other.)

¶ 470 Leave a comment on paragraph 470 0 NAGG:

¶ 471 Leave a comment on paragraph 471 0 Can you hear me?

¶ 472 Leave a comment on paragraph 472 0 NELL:

¶ 473 Leave a comment on paragraph 473 0 Yes. And you?

¶ 474 Leave a comment on paragraph 474 0 NAGG:

¶ 475 Leave a comment on paragraph 475 0 Yes.

¶ 476 Leave a comment on paragraph 476 0 (Pause.)

¶ 477 Leave a comment on paragraph 477 0 Our hearing hasn’t failed.

¶ 478 Leave a comment on paragraph 478 0 NELL:

¶ 479 Leave a comment on paragraph 479 0 Our what?

¶ 480 Leave a comment on paragraph 480 0 NAGG:

¶ 481 Leave a comment on paragraph 481 0 Our hearing.

¶ 482 Leave a comment on paragraph 482 0 NELL:

¶ 483 Leave a comment on paragraph 483 0 No.

¶ 484 Leave a comment on paragraph 484 0 (Pause.)

¶ 485 Leave a comment on paragraph 485 0 Have you anything else to say to me?

¶ 486 Leave a comment on paragraph 486 0 NAGG:

¶ 487 Leave a comment on paragraph 487 0 Do you remember—

¶ 488 Leave a comment on paragraph 488 0 NELL:

¶ 489 Leave a comment on paragraph 489 0 No.

¶ 490 Leave a comment on paragraph 490 0 NAGG:

¶ 491 Leave a comment on paragraph 491 0 When we crashed on our tandem and lost our shanks.

¶ 492 Leave a comment on paragraph 492 0 (They laugh heartily.)

¶ 493 Leave a comment on paragraph 493 0 NELL:

¶ 494 Leave a comment on paragraph 494 0 It was in the Ardennes.

¶ 495 Leave a comment on paragraph 495 0 (They laugh less heartily.)

¶ 496 Leave a comment on paragraph 496 0 NAGG:

¶ 497 Leave a comment on paragraph 497 0 On the road to Sedan.

¶ 498 Leave a comment on paragraph 498 0 (They laugh still less heartily.)

¶ 499 Leave a comment on paragraph 499 0 Are you cold?

¶ 500 Leave a comment on paragraph 500 0 NELL:

¶ 501 Leave a comment on paragraph 501 0 Yes, perished, and you?

¶ 502 Leave a comment on paragraph 502 0 NAGG:

¶ 503 Leave a comment on paragraph 503 0 (Pause.)

¶ 504 Leave a comment on paragraph 504 0 I’m freezing.

¶ 505 Leave a comment on paragraph 505 0 (Pause.)

¶ 506 Leave a comment on paragraph 506 0 Do you want to go in?

¶ 507 Leave a comment on paragraph 507 0 NELL:

¶ 508 Leave a comment on paragraph 508 0 Yes.

¶ 509 Leave a comment on paragraph 509 0 NAGG:

¶ 510 Leave a comment on paragraph 510 0 Then go in.

¶ 511 Leave a comment on paragraph 511 0 (Nell does not move.)

¶ 512 Leave a comment on paragraph 512 0 Why don’t you go in?

¶ 513 Leave a comment on paragraph 513 0 NELL:

¶ 514 Leave a comment on paragraph 514 0 I don’t know.

¶ 515 Leave a comment on paragraph 515 0 (Pause.)

¶ 516 Leave a comment on paragraph 516 0 NAGG:

¶ 517 Leave a comment on paragraph 517 0 Has he changed your sawdust?

¶ 518 Leave a comment on paragraph 518 0 NELL:

¶ 519 Leave a comment on paragraph 519 0 It isn’t sawdust.

¶ 520 Leave a comment on paragraph 520 0 (Pause. Warily.)

¶ 521 Leave a comment on paragraph 521 0 Can you not be a little accurate, Nagg?

¶ 522 Leave a comment on paragraph 522 0 NAGG:

¶ 523 Leave a comment on paragraph 523 0 Your sand then. It’s not important.

¶ 524 Leave a comment on paragraph 524 0 NELL:

¶ 525 Leave a comment on paragraph 525 0 It is important.

¶ 526 Leave a comment on paragraph 526 0 (Pause.)

¶ 527 Leave a comment on paragraph 527 0 NAGG:

¶ 528 Leave a comment on paragraph 528 0 It was sawdust once.

¶ 529 Leave a comment on paragraph 529 0 NELL:

¶ 530 Leave a comment on paragraph 530 0 Once!

¶ 531 Leave a comment on paragraph 531 0 NAGG:

¶ 532 Leave a comment on paragraph 532 0 And now it’s sand.

¶ 533 Leave a comment on paragraph 533 0 (Pause.)

¶ 534 Leave a comment on paragraph 534 0 From the shore.

¶ 535 Leave a comment on paragraph 535 0 (Pause. Impatiently.)

¶ 536 Leave a comment on paragraph 536 0 Now it’s sand he fetches from the shore.

¶ 537 Leave a comment on paragraph 537 0 NELL:

¶ 538 Leave a comment on paragraph 538 0 Now it’s sand.

¶ 539 Leave a comment on paragraph 539 0 NAGG:

¶ 540 Leave a comment on paragraph 540 0 Has he changed yours?

¶ 541 Leave a comment on paragraph 541 0 NELL:

¶ 542 Leave a comment on paragraph 542 0 No.

¶ 543 Leave a comment on paragraph 543 0 NAGG:

¶ 544 Leave a comment on paragraph 544 0 Nor mine.

¶ 545 Leave a comment on paragraph 545 0 (Pause.)

¶ 546 Leave a comment on paragraph 546 0 I won’t have it!

¶ 547 Leave a comment on paragraph 547 0 (Pause. Holding up the biscuit.)

¶ 548 Leave a comment on paragraph 548 0 Do you want a bit?

¶ 549 Leave a comment on paragraph 549 0 NELL:

¶ 550 Leave a comment on paragraph 550 0 No.

¶ 551 Leave a comment on paragraph 551 0 (Pause.)

¶ 552 Leave a comment on paragraph 552 0 Of what?

¶ 553 Leave a comment on paragraph 553 0 NAGG:

¶ 554 Leave a comment on paragraph 554 0 Biscuit. I’ve kept you half.

¶ 555 Leave a comment on paragraph 555 0 (He looks at the biscuit. Proudly.)

¶ 556 Leave a comment on paragraph 556 0 Three quarters. For you. Here.

¶ 557 Leave a comment on paragraph 557 0 (He proffers the biscuit.)

¶ 558 Leave a comment on paragraph 558 0 No?

¶ 559 Leave a comment on paragraph 559 0 (Pause.)

¶ 560 Leave a comment on paragraph 560 0 Do you not feel well?

¶ 561 Leave a comment on paragraph 561 0 HAMM(wearily):

¶ 562 Leave a comment on paragraph 562 0 Quiet, quiet, you’re keeping me awake.

¶ 563 Leave a comment on paragraph 563 0 (Pause.)

¶ 564 Leave a comment on paragraph 564 0 Talk softer.

¶ 565 Leave a comment on paragraph 565 0 (Pause.)

¶ 566 Leave a comment on paragraph 566 0 If I could sleep I might make love. I’d go into the woods. My eyes would see… the sky, the earth. I’d run, run, they wouldn’t catch me.

¶ 567 Leave a comment on paragraph 567 0 (Pause.)

¶ 568 Leave a comment on paragraph 568 0 Nature!

¶ 569 Leave a comment on paragraph 569 0 (Pause.)

¶ 570 Leave a comment on paragraph 570 0 There’s something dripping in my head.

¶ 571 Leave a comment on paragraph 571 0 (Pause.)

¶ 572 Leave a comment on paragraph 572 0 A heart, a heart in my head.

¶ 573 Leave a comment on paragraph 573 0 (Pause.)

¶ 574 Leave a comment on paragraph 574 0 NAGG:

¶ 575 Leave a comment on paragraph 575 0 Do you hear him? A heart in his head!

¶ 576 Leave a comment on paragraph 576 0 (He chuckles cautiously.)

¶ 577 Leave a comment on paragraph 577 0 NELL:

¶ 578 Leave a comment on paragraph 578 0 One mustn’t laugh at those things, Nagg. Why must you always laugh at them?

¶ 579 Leave a comment on paragraph 579 0 NAGG:

¶ 580 Leave a comment on paragraph 580 0 Not so loud!

¶ 581 Leave a comment on paragraph 581 0 NELL(without lowering her voice):

¶ 582 Leave a comment on paragraph 582 0 Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. But—

¶ 583 Leave a comment on paragraph 583 0 NAGG(shocked):

¶ 584 Leave a comment on paragraph 584 0 Oh!

¶ 585 Leave a comment on paragraph 585 0 NELL:

¶ 586 Leave a comment on paragraph 586 0 Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it’s always the same thing. Yes, it’s like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don’t laugh any more.

¶ 587 Leave a comment on paragraph 587 0 (Pause.)

¶ 588 Leave a comment on paragraph 588 0 Have you anything else to say to me?

¶ 589 Leave a comment on paragraph 589 0 NAGG:

¶ 590 Leave a comment on paragraph 590 0 No.

¶ 591 Leave a comment on paragraph 591 0 NELL:

¶ 592 Leave a comment on paragraph 592 0 Are you quite sure?

¶ 593 Leave a comment on paragraph 593 0 (Pause.)

¶ 594 Leave a comment on paragraph 594 0 Then I’ll leave you.

¶ 595 Leave a comment on paragraph 595 0 NAGG:

¶ 596 Leave a comment on paragraph 596 0 Do you not want your biscuit?

¶ 597 Leave a comment on paragraph 597 0 (Pause.)

¶ 598 Leave a comment on paragraph 598 0 I’ll keep it for you.

¶ 599 Leave a comment on paragraph 599 0 (Pause.)

¶ 600 Leave a comment on paragraph 600 0 I thought you were going to leave me.

¶ 601 Leave a comment on paragraph 601 0 NELL:

¶ 602 Leave a comment on paragraph 602 0 I am going to leave you.

¶ 603 Leave a comment on paragraph 603 0 NAGG:

¶ 604 Leave a comment on paragraph 604 0 Could you give me a scratch before you go?

¶ 605 Leave a comment on paragraph 605 0 NELL:

¶ 606 Leave a comment on paragraph 606 0 No.

¶ 607 Leave a comment on paragraph 607 0 (Pause.)

¶ 608 Leave a comment on paragraph 608 0 Where?

¶ 609 Leave a comment on paragraph 609 0 NAGG:

¶ 610 Leave a comment on paragraph 610 0 In the back.

¶ 611 Leave a comment on paragraph 611 0 NELL:

¶ 612 Leave a comment on paragraph 612 0 No.

¶ 613 Leave a comment on paragraph 613 0 (Pause.)

¶ 614 Leave a comment on paragraph 614 0 Rub yourself against the rim.

¶ 615 Leave a comment on paragraph 615 0 NAGG:

¶ 616 Leave a comment on paragraph 616 0 It’s lower down. In the hollow.

¶ 617 Leave a comment on paragraph 617 0 NELL:

¶ 618 Leave a comment on paragraph 618 0 What hollow?

¶ 619 Leave a comment on paragraph 619 0 NAGG:

¶ 620 Leave a comment on paragraph 620 0 The hollow!

¶ 621 Leave a comment on paragraph 621 0 (Pause.)

¶ 622 Leave a comment on paragraph 622 0 Could you not?

¶ 623 Leave a comment on paragraph 623 0 (Pause.)

¶ 624 Leave a comment on paragraph 624 0 Yesterday you scratched me there.

¶ 625 Leave a comment on paragraph 625 0 NELL(elegiac):

¶ 626 Leave a comment on paragraph 626 0 Ah yesterday.

¶ 627 Leave a comment on paragraph 627 0 NAGG:

¶ 628 Leave a comment on paragraph 628 0 Could you not?

¶ 629 Leave a comment on paragraph 629 0 (Pause.)

¶ 630 Leave a comment on paragraph 630 0 Would you like me to scratch you?

¶ 631 Leave a comment on paragraph 631 0 (Pause.)

¶ 632 Leave a comment on paragraph 632 0 Are you crying again?

¶ 633 Leave a comment on paragraph 633 0 NELL:

¶ 634 Leave a comment on paragraph 634 0 I was trying.

¶ 635 Leave a comment on paragraph 635 0 (Pause.)

¶ 636 Leave a comment on paragraph 636 0 HAMM:

¶ 637 Leave a comment on paragraph 637 0 Perhaps it’s a little vein.

¶ 638 Leave a comment on paragraph 638 0 (Pause.)

¶ 639 Leave a comment on paragraph 639 0 NAGG:

¶ 640 Leave a comment on paragraph 640 0 What was that he said?

¶ 641 Leave a comment on paragraph 641 0 NELL:

¶ 642 Leave a comment on paragraph 642 0 Perhaps it’s a little vein.

¶ 643 Leave a comment on paragraph 643 0 NAGG:

¶ 644 Leave a comment on paragraph 644 0 What does that mean?

¶ 645 Leave a comment on paragraph 645 0 (Pause.)

¶ 646 Leave a comment on paragraph 646 0 That means nothing.

¶ 647 Leave a comment on paragraph 647 0 (Pause.)

¶ 648 Leave a comment on paragraph 648 0 Shall I tell you the story of the tailor?

¶ 649 Leave a comment on paragraph 649 0 NELL:

¶ 650 Leave a comment on paragraph 650 0 No.

¶ 651 Leave a comment on paragraph 651 0 (Pause.)

¶ 652 Leave a comment on paragraph 652 0 What for?

¶ 653 Leave a comment on paragraph 653 0 NAGG:

¶ 654 Leave a comment on paragraph 654 0 To cheer you up.

¶ 655 Leave a comment on paragraph 655 0 NELL:

¶ 656 Leave a comment on paragraph 656 0 It’s not funny.

¶ 657 Leave a comment on paragraph 657 0 NAGG:

¶ 658 Leave a comment on paragraph 658 0 It always made you laugh.

¶ 659 Leave a comment on paragraph 659 0 (Pause.)

¶ 660 Leave a comment on paragraph 660 0 The first time I thought you’d die.

¶ 661 Leave a comment on paragraph 661 0 NELL:

¶ 662 Leave a comment on paragraph 662 0 It was on Lake Como.

¶ 663 Leave a comment on paragraph 663 0 (Pause.)

¶ 664 Leave a comment on paragraph 664 0 One April afternoon.

¶ 665 Leave a comment on paragraph 665 0 (Pause.)

¶ 666 Leave a comment on paragraph 666 0 Can you believe it?

¶ 667 Leave a comment on paragraph 667 0 NAGG:

¶ 668 Leave a comment on paragraph 668 0 What?

¶ 669 Leave a comment on paragraph 669 0 NELL:

¶ 670 Leave a comment on paragraph 670 0 That we once went out rowing on Lake Como.

¶ 671 Leave a comment on paragraph 671 0 (Pause.)

¶ 672 Leave a comment on paragraph 672 0 One April afternoon.

¶ 673 Leave a comment on paragraph 673 0 NAGG:

¶ 674 Leave a comment on paragraph 674 0 We had got engaged the day before.

¶ 675 Leave a comment on paragraph 675 0 NELL:

¶ 676 Leave a comment on paragraph 676 0 Engaged!

¶ 677 Leave a comment on paragraph 677 0 NAGG:

¶ 678 Leave a comment on paragraph 678 0 You were in such fits that we capsized. By rights we should have been drowned.

¶ 679 Leave a comment on paragraph 679 0 NELL:

¶ 680 Leave a comment on paragraph 680 0 It was because I felt happy.

¶ 681 Leave a comment on paragraph 681 0 NAGG(indignant):

¶ 682 Leave a comment on paragraph 682 0 It was not, it was not, it was my STORY and nothing else. Happy! Don’t you laugh at it still? Every time I tell it. Happy!

¶ 683 Leave a comment on paragraph 683 0 NELL:

¶ 684 Leave a comment on paragraph 684 0 It was deep, deep. And you could see down to the bottom. So white. So clean.

¶ 685 Leave a comment on paragraph 685 0 NAGG:

¶ 686 Leave a comment on paragraph 686 0 Let me tell it again.

¶ 687 Leave a comment on paragraph 687 0 (Raconteur’s voice.)

¶ 688 Leave a comment on paragraph 688 0 An Englishman, needing a pair of striped trousers in a hurry for the New Year festivities, goes to his tailor who takes his measurements.

¶ 689 Leave a comment on paragraph 689 0 (Tailor’s voice.)

¶ 690 Leave a comment on paragraph 690 0 “That’s the lot, come back in four days, I’ll have it ready.” Good. Four days later.

¶ 691 Leave a comment on paragraph 691 0 (Tailor’s voice.)

¶ 692 Leave a comment on paragraph 692 0 “So sorry, come back in a week, I’ve made a mess of the seat.” Good, that’s all right, a neat seat can be very ticklish. A week later.

¶ 693 Leave a comment on paragraph 693 0 (Tailor’s voice.)

¶ 694 Leave a comment on paragraph 694 0 “Frightfully sorry, come back in ten days, I’ve made a hash of the crotch.” Good, can’t be helped, a snug crotch is always a teaser. Ten days later.

¶ 695 Leave a comment on paragraph 695 0 (Tailor’s voice.)

¶ 696 Leave a comment on paragraph 696 0 “Dreadfully sorry, come back in a fortnight, I’ve made a balls of the fly.” Good, at a pinch, a smart fly is a stiff proposition.

¶ 697 Leave a comment on paragraph 697 0 (Pause. Normal voice.)

¶ 698 Leave a comment on paragraph 698 0 I never told it worse.

¶ 699 Leave a comment on paragraph 699 0 (Pause. Gloomy.)

¶ 700 Leave a comment on paragraph 700 0 I tell this story worse and worse.

¶ 701 Leave a comment on paragraph 701 0 (Pause. Raconteur’s voice.)

¶ 702 Leave a comment on paragraph 702 0 Well, to make it short, the bluebells are blowing and he ballockses the buttonholes.

¶ 703 Leave a comment on paragraph 703 0 (Customer’s voice.)

¶ 704 Leave a comment on paragraph 704 0 “God damn you to hell, Sir, no, it’s indecent, there are limits! In six days, do you hear me, six days, God made the world. Yes Sir, no less Sir, the WORLD! And you are not bloody well capable of making me a pair of trousers in three months!”

¶ 705 Leave a comment on paragraph 705 0 (Tailor’s voice, scandalized.)

¶ 706 Leave a comment on paragraph 706 0 “But my dear Sir, my dear Sir, look—

¶ 707 Leave a comment on paragraph 707 0 (disdainful gesture, disgustedly)

¶ 708 Leave a comment on paragraph 708 0 —at the world—

¶ 709 Leave a comment on paragraph 709 0 (Pause.)

¶ 710 Leave a comment on paragraph 710 0 and look—

¶ 711 Leave a comment on paragraph 711 0 (loving gesture, proudly)

¶ 712 Leave a comment on paragraph 712 1 —at my TROUSERS!”

¶ 713 Leave a comment on paragraph 713 0 (Pause. He looks at Nell who has remained impassive, her eyes unseeing. He breaks into a high forced laugh, cuts it short, pokes his head towards Nell, launches his laugh again.)

¶ 714 Leave a comment on paragraph 714 0 HAMM:

¶ 715 Leave a comment on paragraph 715 0 Silence!

¶ 716 Leave a comment on paragraph 716 0 (Nagg starts, cuts short his laugh.)

¶ 717 Leave a comment on paragraph 717 0 NELL:

¶ 718 Leave a comment on paragraph 718 0 You could see down to the bottom.

¶ 719 Leave a comment on paragraph 719 0 HAMM(exasperated):

¶ 720 Leave a comment on paragraph 720 0 Have you not finished? Will you never finish?

¶ 721 Leave a comment on paragraph 721 0 (With sudden fury.)

¶ 722 Leave a comment on paragraph 722 0 Will this never finish?

¶ 723 Leave a comment on paragraph 723 0 (Nagg disappears into his bin, closes the lid behind him. Nell does not move. Frenziedly.)

¶ 724 Leave a comment on paragraph 724 0 My kingdom for a nightman!

¶ 725 Leave a comment on paragraph 725 0 (He whistles. Enter Clov.)

¶ 726 Leave a comment on paragraph 726 0 Clear away this muck! Chuck it in the sea!

¶ 727 Leave a comment on paragraph 727 0 (Clov goes to bins, halts.)

¶ 728 Leave a comment on paragraph 728 0 NELL:

¶ 729 Leave a comment on paragraph 729 0 So white.

¶ 730 Leave a comment on paragraph 730 0 HAMM:

¶ 731 Leave a comment on paragraph 731 0 What? What’s she blathering about?

¶ 732 Leave a comment on paragraph 732 0 (Clov stoops, takes Nell’s hand, feels her pulse.)

¶ 733 Leave a comment on paragraph 733 0 NELL(to Clov):

¶ 734 Leave a comment on paragraph 734 0 Desert!

¶ 735 Leave a comment on paragraph 735 0 (Clov lets go her hand, pushes her back in the bin, closes the lid.)

¶ 736 Leave a comment on paragraph 736 0 CLOV(returning to his place beside the chair):

¶ 737 Leave a comment on paragraph 737 0 She has no pulse.

¶ 738 Leave a comment on paragraph 738 0 HAMM:

¶ 739 Leave a comment on paragraph 739 0 What was she drivelling about?

¶ 740 Leave a comment on paragraph 740 0 CLOV:

¶ 741 Leave a comment on paragraph 741 0 She told me to go away, into the desert.

¶ 742 Leave a comment on paragraph 742 0 HAMM:

¶ 743 Leave a comment on paragraph 743 0 Damn busybody! Is that all?

¶ 744 Leave a comment on paragraph 744 0 CLOV:

¶ 745 Leave a comment on paragraph 745 0 No.

¶ 746 Leave a comment on paragraph 746 0 HAMM:

¶ 747 Leave a comment on paragraph 747 0 What else?

¶ 748 Leave a comment on paragraph 748 0 CLOV:

¶ 749 Leave a comment on paragraph 749 0 I didn’t understand.

¶ 750 Leave a comment on paragraph 750 0 HAMM:

¶ 751 Leave a comment on paragraph 751 0 Have you bottled her?

¶ 752 Leave a comment on paragraph 752 0 CLOV:

¶ 753 Leave a comment on paragraph 753 0 Yes.

¶ 754 Leave a comment on paragraph 754 0 HAMM:

¶ 755 Leave a comment on paragraph 755 0 Are they both bottled?

¶ 756 Leave a comment on paragraph 756 0 CLOV:

¶ 757 Leave a comment on paragraph 757 0 Yes.

¶ 758 Leave a comment on paragraph 758 0 HAMM:

¶ 759 Leave a comment on paragraph 759 0 Screw down the lids.

¶ 760 Leave a comment on paragraph 760 0 (Clov goes towards door.)

¶ 761 Leave a comment on paragraph 761 0 Time enough.

¶ 762 Leave a comment on paragraph 762 0 (Clov halts.)

¶ 763 Leave a comment on paragraph 763 0 My anger subsides, I’d like to pee.

¶ 764 Leave a comment on paragraph 764 0 CLOV(with alacrity):

¶ 765 Leave a comment on paragraph 765 0 I’ll go get the catheter.

¶ 766 Leave a comment on paragraph 766 0 (He goes towards door.)

¶ 767 Leave a comment on paragraph 767 0 HAMM:

¶ 768 Leave a comment on paragraph 768 0 Time enough.

¶ 769 Leave a comment on paragraph 769 0 (Clov halts.)

¶ 770 Leave a comment on paragraph 770 0 Give me my pain killer.

¶ 771 Leave a comment on paragraph 771 0 CLOV:

¶ 772 Leave a comment on paragraph 772 0 It’s too soon.

¶ 773 Leave a comment on paragraph 773 0 (Pause.)

¶ 774 Leave a comment on paragraph 774 0 It’s too soon on top of your tonic, it wouldn’t act.

¶ 775 Leave a comment on paragraph 775 0 HAMM:

¶ 776 Leave a comment on paragraph 776 0 In the morning they brace you up and in the evening they calm you down. Unless it’s the other way round.

¶ 777 Leave a comment on paragraph 777 0 (Pause.)

¶ 778 Leave a comment on paragraph 778 0 That old doctor, he’s dead naturally?

¶ 779 Leave a comment on paragraph 779 0 CLOV:

¶ 780 Leave a comment on paragraph 780 0 He wasn’t old.

¶ 781 Leave a comment on paragraph 781 0 HAMM:

¶ 782 Leave a comment on paragraph 782 0 But he’s dead?

¶ 783 Leave a comment on paragraph 783 0 CLOV:

¶ 784 Leave a comment on paragraph 784 0 Naturally.

¶ 785 Leave a comment on paragraph 785 0 (Pause.)

¶ 786 Leave a comment on paragraph 786 0 You ask me that?

¶ 787 Leave a comment on paragraph 787 0 (Pause.)

¶ 788 Leave a comment on paragraph 788 0 HAMM:

¶ 789 Leave a comment on paragraph 789 0 Take me for a little turn.

¶ 790 Leave a comment on paragraph 790 0 (Clov goes behind the chair and pushes it forward.)

¶ 791 Leave a comment on paragraph 791 0 Not too fast!

¶ 792 Leave a comment on paragraph 792 0 (Clov pushes chair.)

¶ 793 Leave a comment on paragraph 793 0 Right round the world!

¶ 794 Leave a comment on paragraph 794 0 (Clov pushes chair.)

¶ 795 Leave a comment on paragraph 795 0 Hug the walls, then back to the center again.

¶ 796 Leave a comment on paragraph 796 0 (Clov pushes chair.)

¶ 797 Leave a comment on paragraph 797 0 I was right in the center, wasn’t I?

¶ 798 Leave a comment on paragraph 798 0 CLOV(pushing):

¶ 799 Leave a comment on paragraph 799 0 Yes.

¶ 800 Leave a comment on paragraph 800 0 HAMM:

¶ 801 Leave a comment on paragraph 801 0 We’d need a proper wheel-chair. With big wheels. Bicycle wheels!

¶ 802 Leave a comment on paragraph 802 0 (Pause.)

¶ 803 Leave a comment on paragraph 803 0 Are you hugging?

¶ 804 Leave a comment on paragraph 804 0 CLOV(pushing):

¶ 805 Leave a comment on paragraph 805 0 Yes.

¶ 806 Leave a comment on paragraph 806 0 HAMM(groping for wall):

¶ 807 Leave a comment on paragraph 807 0 It’s a lie! Why do you lie to me?

¶ 808 Leave a comment on paragraph 808 0 CLOV(bearing closer to wall):

¶ 809 Leave a comment on paragraph 809 0 There! There!

¶ 810 Leave a comment on paragraph 810 0 HAMM:

¶ 811 Leave a comment on paragraph 811 0 Stop!

¶ 812 Leave a comment on paragraph 812 0 (Clov stops chair close to back wall. Hamm lays his hand against wall.)

¶ 813 Leave a comment on paragraph 813 0 Old wall!

¶ 814 Leave a comment on paragraph 814 0 (Pause.)

¶ 815 Leave a comment on paragraph 815 0 Beyond is the… other hell.

¶ 816 Leave a comment on paragraph 816 0 (Pause. Violently.)

¶ 817 Leave a comment on paragraph 817 0 Closer! Closer! Up against!

¶ 818 Leave a comment on paragraph 818 0 CLOV:

¶ 819 Leave a comment on paragraph 819 0 Take away your hand.

¶ 820 Leave a comment on paragraph 820 0 (Hamm withdraws his hand. Clov rams chair against wall.)

¶ 821 Leave a comment on paragraph 821 0 There!

¶ 822 Leave a comment on paragraph 822 0 (Hamm leans towards wall, applies his ear to it.)

¶ 823 Leave a comment on paragraph 823 0 HAMM:

¶ 824 Leave a comment on paragraph 824 0 Do you hear?

¶ 825 Leave a comment on paragraph 825 0 (He strikes the wall with his knuckles.)

¶ 826 Leave a comment on paragraph 826 0 Do you hear? Hollow bricks!

¶ 827 Leave a comment on paragraph 827 0 (He strikes again.)

¶ 828 Leave a comment on paragraph 828 0 All that’s hollow!

¶ 829 Leave a comment on paragraph 829 0 (Pause. He straightens up. Violently.)

¶ 830 Leave a comment on paragraph 830 0 That’s enough. Back!

¶ 831 Leave a comment on paragraph 831 0 CLOV:

¶ 832 Leave a comment on paragraph 832 0 We haven’t done the round.

¶ 833 Leave a comment on paragraph 833 0 HAMM:

¶ 834 Leave a comment on paragraph 834 0 Back to my place!

¶ 835 Leave a comment on paragraph 835 0 (Clov pushes chair back to center.)

¶ 836 Leave a comment on paragraph 836 0 Is that my place?

¶ 837 Leave a comment on paragraph 837 0 CLOV:

¶ 838 Leave a comment on paragraph 838 0 Yes, that’s your place.

¶ 839 Leave a comment on paragraph 839 0 HAMM:

¶ 840 Leave a comment on paragraph 840 0 Am I right in the center?

¶ 841 Leave a comment on paragraph 841 0 CLOV:

¶ 842 Leave a comment on paragraph 842 0 I’ll measure it.

¶ 843 Leave a comment on paragraph 843 0 HAMM:

¶ 844 Leave a comment on paragraph 844 0 More or less! More or less!

¶ 845 Leave a comment on paragraph 845 0 CLOV(moving chair slightly):

¶ 846 Leave a comment on paragraph 846 0 There!

¶ 847 Leave a comment on paragraph 847 0 HAMM:

¶ 848 Leave a comment on paragraph 848 0 I’m more or less in the center?

¶ 849 Leave a comment on paragraph 849 0 CLOV:

¶ 850 Leave a comment on paragraph 850 0 I’d say so.

¶ 851 Leave a comment on paragraph 851 0 HAMM:

¶ 852 Leave a comment on paragraph 852 0 You’d say so! Put me right in the center!

¶ 853 Leave a comment on paragraph 853 0 CLOV:

¶ 854 Leave a comment on paragraph 854 0 I’ll go and get the tape.

¶ 855 Leave a comment on paragraph 855 0 HAMM:

¶ 856 Leave a comment on paragraph 856 0 Roughly! Roughly!

¶ 857 Leave a comment on paragraph 857 0 (Clov moves chair slightly.)

¶ 858 Leave a comment on paragraph 858 0 Bang in the center!

¶ 859 Leave a comment on paragraph 859 0 CLOV:

¶ 860 Leave a comment on paragraph 860 0 There!

¶ 861 Leave a comment on paragraph 861 0 (Pause.)

¶ 862 Leave a comment on paragraph 862 0 HAMM:

¶ 863 Leave a comment on paragraph 863 0 I feel a little too far to the left.

¶ 864 Leave a comment on paragraph 864 0 (Clov moves chair slightly.)

¶ 865 Leave a comment on paragraph 865 0 Now I feel a little too far to the right.

¶ 866 Leave a comment on paragraph 866 0 (Clov moves chair slightly.)

¶ 867 Leave a comment on paragraph 867 0 I feel a little too far forward.

¶ 868 Leave a comment on paragraph 868 0 (Clov moves chair slightly.)

¶ 869 Leave a comment on paragraph 869 0 Now I feel a little too far back.

¶ 870 Leave a comment on paragraph 870 0 (Clov moves chair slightly.)

¶ 871 Leave a comment on paragraph 871 0 Don’t stay there.

¶ 872 Leave a comment on paragraph 872 0 (i.e. behind the chair)

¶ 873 Leave a comment on paragraph 873 0 you give me the shivers.

¶ 874 Leave a comment on paragraph 874 0 (Clov returns to his place beside the chair.)

¶ 875 Leave a comment on paragraph 875 0 CLOV:

¶ 876 Leave a comment on paragraph 876 0 If I could kill him I’d die happy.

¶ 877 Leave a comment on paragraph 877 0 (Pause.)

¶ 878 Leave a comment on paragraph 878 0 HAMM:

¶ 879 Leave a comment on paragraph 879 0 What’s the weather like?

¶ 880 Leave a comment on paragraph 880 0 CLOV:

¶ 881 Leave a comment on paragraph 881 0 As usual.

¶ 882 Leave a comment on paragraph 882 0 HAMM:

¶ 883 Leave a comment on paragraph 883 0 Look at the earth.

¶ 884 Leave a comment on paragraph 884 0 CLOV:

¶ 885 Leave a comment on paragraph 885 0 I’ve looked.

¶ 886 Leave a comment on paragraph 886 0 HAMM:

¶ 887 Leave a comment on paragraph 887 0 With the glass?

¶ 888 Leave a comment on paragraph 888 0 CLOV:

¶ 889 Leave a comment on paragraph 889 0 No need of the glass.

¶ 890 Leave a comment on paragraph 890 0 HAMM:

¶ 891 Leave a comment on paragraph 891 0 Look at it with the glass.

¶ 892 Leave a comment on paragraph 892 0 CLOV:

¶ 893 Leave a comment on paragraph 893 0 I’ll go and get the glass.

¶ 894 Leave a comment on paragraph 894 0 (Exit Clov.)

¶ 895 Leave a comment on paragraph 895 0 HAMM:

¶ 896 Leave a comment on paragraph 896 0 No need of the glass!

¶ 897 Leave a comment on paragraph 897 0 (Enter Clov with telescope.)

¶ 898 Leave a comment on paragraph 898 0 CLOV:

¶ 899 Leave a comment on paragraph 899 0 I’m back again, with the glass.

¶ 900 Leave a comment on paragraph 900 0 (He goes to window right, looks up at it.)

¶ 901 Leave a comment on paragraph 901 0 I need the steps.

¶ 902 Leave a comment on paragraph 902 0 HAMM:

¶ 903 Leave a comment on paragraph 903 0 Why? Have you shrunk?

¶ 904 Leave a comment on paragraph 904 0 (Exit Clov with telescope.)

¶ 905 Leave a comment on paragraph 905 0 I don’t like that, I don’t like that.

¶ 906 Leave a comment on paragraph 906 0 (Enter Clov with ladder, but without telescope.)

¶ 907 Leave a comment on paragraph 907 0 CLOV:

¶ 908 Leave a comment on paragraph 908 0 I’m back again, with the steps.

¶ 909 Leave a comment on paragraph 909 0 (He sets down ladder under window right, gets up on it, realizes he has not the telescope, gets down.)

¶ 910 Leave a comment on paragraph 910 0 I need the glass.

¶ 911 Leave a comment on paragraph 911 0 (He goes towards door.)

¶ 912 Leave a comment on paragraph 912 0 HAMM(violently):

¶ 913 Leave a comment on paragraph 913 0 But you have the glass!

¶ 914 Leave a comment on paragraph 914 0 CLOV(halting, violently):

¶ 915 Leave a comment on paragraph 915 0 No, I haven’t the glass!

¶ 916 Leave a comment on paragraph 916 0 (Exit Clov.)

¶ 917 Leave a comment on paragraph 917 0 HAMM:

¶ 918 Leave a comment on paragraph 918 0 This is deadly.

¶ 919 Leave a comment on paragraph 919 0 (Enter Clov with the telescope. He goes towards ladder.)

¶ 920 Leave a comment on paragraph 920 0 CLOV:

¶ 921 Leave a comment on paragraph 921 0 Things are livening up.

¶ 922 Leave a comment on paragraph 922 0 (He gets up on ladder, raises the telescope, lets it fall.)

¶ 923 Leave a comment on paragraph 923 0 I did it on purpose.

¶ 924 Leave a comment on paragraph 924 0 (He gets down, picks up the telescope, turns it on auditorium.)

¶ 925 Leave a comment on paragraph 925 0 I see… a multitude… in transports… of joy.

¶ 926 Leave a comment on paragraph 926 0 (Pause. He lowers telescope, looks at it.)

¶ 927 Leave a comment on paragraph 927 0 That’s what I call a magnifier.

¶ 928 Leave a comment on paragraph 928 0 (He turns toward Hamm.)

¶ 929 Leave a comment on paragraph 929 0 Well? Don’t we laugh?

¶ 930 Leave a comment on paragraph 930 0 HAMM(after reflection):

¶ 931 Leave a comment on paragraph 931 0 I don’t.

¶ 932 Leave a comment on paragraph 932 0 CLOV(after reflection):

¶ 933 Leave a comment on paragraph 933 0 Nor I.

¶ 934 Leave a comment on paragraph 934 0 (He gets up on ladder, turns the telescope on the without.)

¶ 935 Leave a comment on paragraph 935 0 Let’s see.

¶ 936 Leave a comment on paragraph 936 0 (He looks, moving the telescope.)

¶ 937 Leave a comment on paragraph 937 0 Zero…

¶ 938 Leave a comment on paragraph 938 0 (he looks)

¶ 939 Leave a comment on paragraph 939 0 …zero…

¶ 940 Leave a comment on paragraph 940 0 (he looks)

¶ 941 Leave a comment on paragraph 941 0 …and zero.

¶ 942 Leave a comment on paragraph 942 0 HAMM:

¶ 943 Leave a comment on paragraph 943 0 Nothing stirs. All is—

¶ 944 Leave a comment on paragraph 944 0 CLOV:

¶ 945 Leave a comment on paragraph 945 0 Zer—

¶ 946 Leave a comment on paragraph 946 0 HAMM(violently):

¶ 947 Leave a comment on paragraph 947 0 Wait till you’re spoken to!

¶ 948 Leave a comment on paragraph 948 0 (Normal voice.)

¶ 949 Leave a comment on paragraph 949 0 All is… all is… all is what?

¶ 950 Leave a comment on paragraph 950 0 (Violently.)

¶ 951 Leave a comment on paragraph 951 0 All is what?

¶ 952 Leave a comment on paragraph 952 0 CLOV:

¶ 953 Leave a comment on paragraph 953 0 What all is? In a word? Is that what you want to know? Just a moment.

¶ 954 Leave a comment on paragraph 954 0 (He turns the telescope on the without, looks, lowers the telescope, turns towards Hamm.)

¶ 955 Leave a comment on paragraph 955 0 Corpsed.

¶ 956 Leave a comment on paragraph 956 0 (Pause.)

¶ 957 Leave a comment on paragraph 957 0 Well? Content?

¶ 958 Leave a comment on paragraph 958 0 HAMM:

¶ 959 Leave a comment on paragraph 959 0 Look at the sea.

¶ 960 Leave a comment on paragraph 960 0 CLOV:

¶ 961 Leave a comment on paragraph 961 0 It’s the same.

¶ 962 Leave a comment on paragraph 962 0 HAMM:

¶ 963 Leave a comment on paragraph 963 0 Look at the ocean!

¶ 964 Leave a comment on paragraph 964 0 (Clov gets down, takes a few steps towards window left, goes back for ladder, carries it over and sets it down under window left, gets up on it, turns the telescope on the without, looks at length. He starts, lowers the telescope, examines it, turns it again on the without.)

¶ 965 Leave a comment on paragraph 965 0 CLOV:

¶ 966 Leave a comment on paragraph 966 0 Never seen anything like that!

¶ 967 Leave a comment on paragraph 967 0 HAMM(anxious):

¶ 968 Leave a comment on paragraph 968 0 What? A sail? A fin? Smoke?

¶ 969 Leave a comment on paragraph 969 0 CLOV(looking):

¶ 970 Leave a comment on paragraph 970 0 The light is sunk.

¶ 971 Leave a comment on paragraph 971 0 HAMM(relieved):

¶ 972 Leave a comment on paragraph 972 0 Pah! We all knew that.

¶ 973 Leave a comment on paragraph 973 0 CLOV(looking):

¶ 974 Leave a comment on paragraph 974 0 There was a bit left.

¶ 975 Leave a comment on paragraph 975 0 HAMM:

¶ 976 Leave a comment on paragraph 976 0 The base.

¶ 977 Leave a comment on paragraph 977 0 CLOV(looking):

¶ 978 Leave a comment on paragraph 978 0 Yes.

¶ 979 Leave a comment on paragraph 979 0 HAMM:

¶ 980 Leave a comment on paragraph 980 0 And now?

¶ 981 Leave a comment on paragraph 981 0 CLOV(looking):

¶ 982 Leave a comment on paragraph 982 0 All gone.

¶ 983 Leave a comment on paragraph 983 0 HAMM:

¶ 984 Leave a comment on paragraph 984 0 No gulls?

¶ 985 Leave a comment on paragraph 985 0 CLOV(looking):

¶ 986 Leave a comment on paragraph 986 0 Gulls!

¶ 987 Leave a comment on paragraph 987 0 HAMM:

¶ 988 Leave a comment on paragraph 988 0 And the horizon? Nothing on the horizon?

¶ 989 Leave a comment on paragraph 989 0 CLOV(lowering the telescope, turning towards Hamm, exasperated):

¶ 990 Leave a comment on paragraph 990 0 What in God’s name could there be on the horizon?

¶ 991 Leave a comment on paragraph 991 0 (Pause.)

¶ 992 Leave a comment on paragraph 992 0 HAMM:

¶ 993 Leave a comment on paragraph 993 0 The waves, how are the waves?

¶ 994 Leave a comment on paragraph 994 0 CLOV:

¶ 995 Leave a comment on paragraph 995 0 The waves?

¶ 996 Leave a comment on paragraph 996 0 (He turns the telescope on the waves.)

¶ 997 Leave a comment on paragraph 997 0 Lead.

¶ 998 Leave a comment on paragraph 998 0 HAMM:

¶ 999 Leave a comment on paragraph 999 0 And the sun?

¶ 1000 Leave a comment on paragraph 1000 0 CLOV(looking):

¶ 1001 Leave a comment on paragraph 1001 0 Zero.

¶ 1002 Leave a comment on paragraph 1002 0 HAMM:

¶ 1003 Leave a comment on paragraph 1003 0 But it should be sinking. Look again.

¶ 1004 Leave a comment on paragraph 1004 0 CLOV(looking):

¶ 1005 Leave a comment on paragraph 1005 0 No.

¶ 1006 Leave a comment on paragraph 1006 0 HAMM:

¶ 1007 Leave a comment on paragraph 1007 0 Then what is it?

¶ 1008 Leave a comment on paragraph 1008 0 CLOV(looking):

¶ 1009 Leave a comment on paragraph 1009 0 Gray.

¶ 1010 Leave a comment on paragraph 1010 0 (Lowering the telescope, turning towards Hamm, louder.)

¶ 1011 Leave a comment on paragraph 1011 0 Gray!

¶ 1012 Leave a comment on paragraph 1012 0 (Pause. Still louder.)

¶ 1013 Leave a comment on paragraph 1013 0 GRRAY!

¶ 1014 Leave a comment on paragraph 1014 0 (Pause. He gets down, approaches Hamm from behind, whispers in his ear.)

¶ 1015 Leave a comment on paragraph 1015 0 HAMM

¶ 1016 Leave a comment on paragraph 1016 0 (starting):

¶ 1017 Leave a comment on paragraph 1017 0 Gray! Did I hear you say gray?

¶ 1018 Leave a comment on paragraph 1018 0 CLOV:

¶ 1019 Leave a comment on paragraph 1019 0 Light black. From pole to pole.

¶ 1020 Leave a comment on paragraph 1020 0 HAMM:

¶ 1021 Leave a comment on paragraph 1021 0 You exaggerate.

¶ 1022 Leave a comment on paragraph 1022 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1023 Leave a comment on paragraph 1023 0 Don’t stay there, you give me the shivers.

¶ 1024 Leave a comment on paragraph 1024 0 (Clov returns to his place beside the chair.)

¶ 1025 Leave a comment on paragraph 1025 0 CLOV:

¶ 1026 Leave a comment on paragraph 1026 0 Why this farce, day after day?

¶ 1027 Leave a comment on paragraph 1027 0 HAMM:

¶ 1028 Leave a comment on paragraph 1028 0 Routine. One never knows.

¶ 1029 Leave a comment on paragraph 1029 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1030 Leave a comment on paragraph 1030 0 Last night I saw inside my breast. There was a big sore.

¶ 1031 Leave a comment on paragraph 1031 0 CLOV:

¶ 1032 Leave a comment on paragraph 1032 0 Pah! You saw your heart.

¶ 1033 Leave a comment on paragraph 1033 0 HAMM:

¶ 1034 Leave a comment on paragraph 1034 0 No, it was living.

¶ 1035 Leave a comment on paragraph 1035 0 (Pause. Anguished.)

¶ 1036 Leave a comment on paragraph 1036 0 Clov!

¶ 1037 Leave a comment on paragraph 1037 0 CLOV:

¶ 1038 Leave a comment on paragraph 1038 0 Yes.

¶ 1039 Leave a comment on paragraph 1039 0 HAMM:

¶ 1040 Leave a comment on paragraph 1040 0 What’s happening?

¶ 1041 Leave a comment on paragraph 1041 0 CLOV:

¶ 1042 Leave a comment on paragraph 1042 0 Something is taking its course.

¶ 1043 Leave a comment on paragraph 1043 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1044 Leave a comment on paragraph 1044 0 HAMM:

¶ 1045 Leave a comment on paragraph 1045 0 Clov!

¶ 1046 Leave a comment on paragraph 1046 0 CLOV(impatiently):

¶ 1047 Leave a comment on paragraph 1047 0 What is it?

¶ 1048 Leave a comment on paragraph 1048 0 HAMM:

¶ 1049 Leave a comment on paragraph 1049 0 We’re not beginning to… to… mean something?

¶ 1050 Leave a comment on paragraph 1050 0 CLOV:

¶ 1051 Leave a comment on paragraph 1051 0 Mean something! You and I, mean something!

¶ 1052 Leave a comment on paragraph 1052 0 (Brief laugh.)

¶ 1053 Leave a comment on paragraph 1053 0 Ah that’s a good one!

¶ 1054 Leave a comment on paragraph 1054 0 HAMM:

¶ 1055 Leave a comment on paragraph 1055 0 I wonder.

¶ 1056 Leave a comment on paragraph 1056 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1057 Leave a comment on paragraph 1057 0 Imagine 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.

¶ 1058 Leave a comment on paragraph 1058 0 (Voice of rational being.)

¶ 1059 Leave a comment on paragraph 1059 0 Ah, good, now I see what it is, yes, now I understand what they’re at!

¶ 1060 Leave a comment on paragraph 1060 0 (Clov starts, drops the telescope and begins to scratch his belly with both hands. Normal voice.)

¶ 1061 Leave a comment on paragraph 1061 0 And without going so far as that, we ourselves…

¶ 1062 Leave a comment on paragraph 1062 0 (with emotion)

¶ 1063 Leave a comment on paragraph 1063 0 …we ourselves… at certain moments…

¶ 1064 Leave a comment on paragraph 1064 0 (Vehemently.)

¶ 1065 Leave a comment on paragraph 1065 0 To think perhaps it won’t all have been for nothing!

¶ 1066 Leave a comment on paragraph 1066 0 CLOV(anguished, scratching himself):

¶ 1067 Leave a comment on paragraph 1067 0 I have a flea!

¶ 1068 Leave a comment on paragraph 1068 0 HAMM:

¶ 1069 Leave a comment on paragraph 1069 0 A flea! Are there still fleas?

¶ 1070 Leave a comment on paragraph 1070 0 CLOV:

¶ 1071 Leave a comment on paragraph 1071 0 On me there’s one.

¶ 1072 Leave a comment on paragraph 1072 0 (Scratching.)

¶ 1073 Leave a comment on paragraph 1073 0 Unless it’s a crab louse.

¶ 1074 Leave a comment on paragraph 1074 0 HAMM

¶ 1075 Leave a comment on paragraph 1075 0 (very perturbed):

¶ 1076 Leave a comment on paragraph 1076 0 But humanity might start from there all over again! Catch him, for the love of God!

¶ 1077 Leave a comment on paragraph 1077 0 CLOV:

¶ 1078 Leave a comment on paragraph 1078 0 I’ll go and get the powder.

¶ 1079 Leave a comment on paragraph 1079 0 (Exit Clov.)

¶ 1080 Leave a comment on paragraph 1080 0 HAMM:

¶ 1081 Leave a comment on paragraph 1081 0 A flea! This is awful! What a day!

¶ 1082 Leave a comment on paragraph 1082 0 (Enter Clov with a sprinkling-tin.)

¶ 1083 Leave a comment on paragraph 1083 0 CLOV:

¶ 1084 Leave a comment on paragraph 1084 0 I’m back again, with the insecticide.

¶ 1085 Leave a comment on paragraph 1085 0 HAMM:

¶ 1086 Leave a comment on paragraph 1086 0 Let him have it!

¶ 1087 Leave a comment on paragraph 1087 0 (Clov loosens the top of his trousers, pulls it forward and shakes powder into the aperture. He stoops, looks, waits, starts, frenziedly shakes more powder, stoops, looks, waits.)

¶ 1088 Leave a comment on paragraph 1088 0 CLOV:

¶ 1089 Leave a comment on paragraph 1089 0 The bastard!

¶ 1090 Leave a comment on paragraph 1090 0 HAMM:

¶ 1091 Leave a comment on paragraph 1091 0 Did you get him?

¶ 1092 Leave a comment on paragraph 1092 0 CLOV:

¶ 1093 Leave a comment on paragraph 1093 0 Looks like it.

¶ 1094 Leave a comment on paragraph 1094 0 (He drops the tin and adjusts his trousers.)

¶ 1095 Leave a comment on paragraph 1095 0 Unless he’s laying doggo.

¶ 1096 Leave a comment on paragraph 1096 0 HAMM:

¶ 1097 Leave a comment on paragraph 1097 0 Laying! Lying, you mean. Unless he’s lying doggo.

¶ 1098 Leave a comment on paragraph 1098 0 CLOV:

¶ 1099 Leave a comment on paragraph 1099 0 Ah? One says lying? One doesn’t say laying?

¶ 1100 Leave a comment on paragraph 1100 0 HAMM:

¶ 1101 Leave a comment on paragraph 1101 0 Use your head, can’t you. If he was laying we’d be bitched.

¶ 1102 Leave a comment on paragraph 1102 0 CLOV:

¶ 1103 Leave a comment on paragraph 1103 0 Ah.

¶ 1104 Leave a comment on paragraph 1104 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1105 Leave a comment on paragraph 1105 0 What about that pee?

¶ 1106 Leave a comment on paragraph 1106 0 HAMM:

¶ 1107 Leave a comment on paragraph 1107 0 I’m having it.

¶ 1108 Leave a comment on paragraph 1108 0 CLOV:

¶ 1109 Leave a comment on paragraph 1109 0 Ah that’s the spirit, that’s the spirit!

¶ 1110 Leave a comment on paragraph 1110 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1111 Leave a comment on paragraph 1111 0 HAMM

¶ 1112 Leave a comment on paragraph 1112 0 (with ardour):

¶ 1113 Leave a comment on paragraph 1113 3 Let’s go from here, the two of us! South! You can make a raft and the currents will carry us away, far away, to other… mammals!

¶ 1114 Leave a comment on paragraph 1114 0 CLOV:

¶ 1115 Leave a comment on paragraph 1115 0 God forbid!

¶ 1116 Leave a comment on paragraph 1116 0 HAMM:

¶ 1117 Leave a comment on paragraph 1117 0 Alone, I’ll embark alone! Get working on that raft immediately. Tomorrow I’ll be gone forever.

¶ 1118 Leave a comment on paragraph 1118 0 CLOV(hastening towards door):

¶ 1119 Leave a comment on paragraph 1119 0 I’ll start straight away.

¶ 1120 Leave a comment on paragraph 1120 0 HAMM:

¶ 1121 Leave a comment on paragraph 1121 0 Wait!

¶ 1122 Leave a comment on paragraph 1122 0 (Clov halts.)

¶ 1123 Leave a comment on paragraph 1123 0 Will there be sharks, do you think?

¶ 1124 Leave a comment on paragraph 1124 0 CLOV:

¶ 1125 Leave a comment on paragraph 1125 0 Sharks? I don’t know. If there are there will be.

¶ 1126 Leave a comment on paragraph 1126 0 (He goes towards door.)

¶ 1127 Leave a comment on paragraph 1127 0 HAMM:

¶ 1128 Leave a comment on paragraph 1128 0 Wait!

¶ 1129 Leave a comment on paragraph 1129 0 (Clov halts.)

¶ 1130 Leave a comment on paragraph 1130 0 Is it not yet time for my pain-killer?

¶ 1131 Leave a comment on paragraph 1131 0 CLOV(violently):

¶ 1132 Leave a comment on paragraph 1132 0 No!

¶ 1133 Leave a comment on paragraph 1133 0 (He goes towards door.)

¶ 1134 Leave a comment on paragraph 1134 0 HAMM:

¶ 1135 Leave a comment on paragraph 1135 0 Wait!

¶ 1136 Leave a comment on paragraph 1136 0 (Clov halts.)

¶ 1137 Leave a comment on paragraph 1137 0 How are your eyes?

¶ 1138 Leave a comment on paragraph 1138 0 CLOV:

¶ 1139 Leave a comment on paragraph 1139 0 Bad.

¶ 1140 Leave a comment on paragraph 1140 0 HAMM:

¶ 1141 Leave a comment on paragraph 1141 0 But you can see.

¶ 1142 Leave a comment on paragraph 1142 0 CLOV:

¶ 1143 Leave a comment on paragraph 1143 0 All I want.

¶ 1144 Leave a comment on paragraph 1144 0 HAMM:

¶ 1145 Leave a comment on paragraph 1145 0 How are your legs?

¶ 1146 Leave a comment on paragraph 1146 0 CLOV:

¶ 1147 Leave a comment on paragraph 1147 0 Bad.

¶ 1148 Leave a comment on paragraph 1148 0 HAMM:

¶ 1149 Leave a comment on paragraph 1149 0 But you can walk.

¶ 1150 Leave a comment on paragraph 1150 0 CLOV:

¶ 1151 Leave a comment on paragraph 1151 0 I come… and go.

¶ 1152 Leave a comment on paragraph 1152 0 HAMM:

¶ 1153 Leave a comment on paragraph 1153 0 In my house.

¶ 1154 Leave a comment on paragraph 1154 0 (Pause. With prophetic relish.)

¶ 1155 Leave a comment on paragraph 1155 1 One day you’ll be blind like me. You’ll be sitting here, a speck in the void, in the dark, forever, like me.

¶ 1156 Leave a comment on paragraph 1156 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1157 Leave a comment on paragraph 1157 0 One day you’ll say to yourself, I’m tired, I’ll sit down, and you’ll go and sit down. Then you’ll say, I’m hungry, I’ll get up and get something to eat. But you won’t get up. You’ll say, I shouldn’t have sat down, but since I have I’ll sit on a little longer, then I’ll get up and get something to eat. But you won’t get up and you won’t get anything to eat.

¶ 1158 Leave a comment on paragraph 1158 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1159 Leave a comment on paragraph 1159 0 You’ll look at the wall a while, then you’ll say, I’ll close my eyes, perhaps have a little sleep, after that I’ll feel better, and you’ll close them. And when you open them again there’ll be no wall any more.

¶ 1160 Leave a comment on paragraph 1160 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1161 Leave a comment on paragraph 1161 1 Infinite emptiness will be all around you, all the resurrected dead of all the ages wouldn’t fill it, and thereyou’ll be like a little bit of grit in the middle of the steppe.

¶ 1162 Leave a comment on paragraph 1162 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1163 Leave a comment on paragraph 1163 1 Yes, one day you’ll know what it is, you’ll be like me, except that you 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 you.

¶ 1164 Leave a comment on paragraph 1164 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1165 Leave a comment on paragraph 1165 0 CLOV:

¶ 1166 Leave a comment on paragraph 1166 0 It’s not certain.

¶ 1167 Leave a comment on paragraph 1167 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1168 Leave a comment on paragraph 1168 0 And there’s one thing you forgot.

¶ 1169 Leave a comment on paragraph 1169 0 HAMM:

¶ 1170 Leave a comment on paragraph 1170 0 Ah?

¶ 1171 Leave a comment on paragraph 1171 0 CLOV:

¶ 1172 Leave a comment on paragraph 1172 0 I can’t sit down.

¶ 1173 Leave a comment on paragraph 1173 0 HAMM

¶ 1174 Leave a comment on paragraph 1174 0 (impatiently):

¶ 1175 Leave a comment on paragraph 1175 0 Well you’ll lie down then, what the hell! Or you’ll come to a standstill, simply stop and stand still, the way you are now. One day you’ll say, I’m tired, I’ll stop. What does the attitude matter?

¶ 1176 Leave a comment on paragraph 1176 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1177 Leave a comment on paragraph 1177 0 CLOV:

¶ 1178 Leave a comment on paragraph 1178 0 So you all want me to leave you.

¶ 1179 Leave a comment on paragraph 1179 0 HAMM:

¶ 1180 Leave a comment on paragraph 1180 0 Naturally.

¶ 1181 Leave a comment on paragraph 1181 0 CLOV:

¶ 1182 Leave a comment on paragraph 1182 0 Then I’ll leave you.

¶ 1183 Leave a comment on paragraph 1183 0 HAMM:

¶ 1184 Leave a comment on paragraph 1184 0 You can’t leave us.

¶ 1185 Leave a comment on paragraph 1185 0 CLOV:

¶ 1186 Leave a comment on paragraph 1186 0 Then I won’t leave you.

¶ 1187 Leave a comment on paragraph 1187 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1188 Leave a comment on paragraph 1188 0 HAMM:

¶ 1189 Leave a comment on paragraph 1189 0 Why don’t you finish us?

¶ 1190 Leave a comment on paragraph 1190 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1191 Leave a comment on paragraph 1191 0 I’ll tell you the combination of the cupboard if you promise to finish me.

¶ 1192 Leave a comment on paragraph 1192 0 CLOV:

¶ 1193 Leave a comment on paragraph 1193 0 I couldn’t finish you.

¶ 1194 Leave a comment on paragraph 1194 0 HAMM:

¶ 1195 Leave a comment on paragraph 1195 0 Then you won’t finish me.

¶ 1196 Leave a comment on paragraph 1196 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1197 Leave a comment on paragraph 1197 0 CLOV:

¶ 1198 Leave a comment on paragraph 1198 0 I’ll leave you, I have things to do.

¶ 1199 Leave a comment on paragraph 1199 0 HAMM:

¶ 1200 Leave a comment on paragraph 1200 0 Do you remember when you came here?

¶ 1201 Leave a comment on paragraph 1201 0 CLOV:

¶ 1202 Leave a comment on paragraph 1202 0 No. Too small, you told me.

¶ 1203 Leave a comment on paragraph 1203 0 HAMM:

¶ 1204 Leave a comment on paragraph 1204 0 Do you remember your father?

¶ 1205 Leave a comment on paragraph 1205 0 CLOV(wearily):

¶ 1206 Leave a comment on paragraph 1206 0 Same answer.

¶ 1207 Leave a comment on paragraph 1207 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1208 Leave a comment on paragraph 1208 0 You’ve asked me these questions millions of times.

¶ 1209 Leave a comment on paragraph 1209 0 HAMM:

¶ 1210 Leave a comment on paragraph 1210 0 I love the old questions.

¶ 1211 Leave a comment on paragraph 1211 0 (With fervour.)

¶ 1212 Leave a comment on paragraph 1212 0 Ah the old questions, the old answers, there’s nothing like them!

¶ 1213 Leave a comment on paragraph 1213 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1214 Leave a comment on paragraph 1214 1 It was I was a father to you.

¶ 1215 Leave a comment on paragraph 1215 0 CLOV:

¶ 1216 Leave a comment on paragraph 1216 0 Yes.

¶ 1217 Leave a comment on paragraph 1217 0 (He looks at Hamm fixedly.)

¶ 1218 Leave a comment on paragraph 1218 0 You were that to me.

¶ 1219 Leave a comment on paragraph 1219 0 HAMM:

¶ 1220 Leave a comment on paragraph 1220 0 My house a home for you.

¶ 1221 Leave a comment on paragraph 1221 0 CLOV:

¶ 1222 Leave a comment on paragraph 1222 0 Yes.

¶ 1223 Leave a comment on paragraph 1223 0 (He looks about him.)

¶ 1224 Leave a comment on paragraph 1224 0 This was that for me.

¶ 1225 Leave a comment on paragraph 1225 0 HAMM

¶ 1226 Leave a comment on paragraph 1226 0 (proudly):

¶ 1227 Leave a comment on paragraph 1227 0 But for me,

¶ 1228 Leave a comment on paragraph 1228 0 (gesture towards himself)

¶ 1229 Leave a comment on paragraph 1229 0 no father. But for Hamm,

¶ 1230 Leave a comment on paragraph 1230 0 (gesture towards surroundings)

¶ 1231 Leave a comment on paragraph 1231 0 no home.

¶ 1232 Leave a comment on paragraph 1232 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1233 Leave a comment on paragraph 1233 0 CLOV:

¶ 1234 Leave a comment on paragraph 1234 0 I’ll leave you.

¶ 1235 Leave a comment on paragraph 1235 0 HAMM:

¶ 1236 Leave a comment on paragraph 1236 0 Did you ever think of one thing?

¶ 1237 Leave a comment on paragraph 1237 0 CLOV:

¶ 1238 Leave a comment on paragraph 1238 0 Never.

¶ 1239 Leave a comment on paragraph 1239 0 HAMM:

¶ 1240 Leave a comment on paragraph 1240 0 That here we’re down in a hole.

¶ 1241 Leave a comment on paragraph 1241 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1242 Leave a comment on paragraph 1242 0 But beyond the hills? Eh? Perhaps it’s still green. Eh?

¶ 1243 Leave a comment on paragraph 1243 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1244 Leave a comment on paragraph 1244 0 Flora! Pomona!

¶ 1245 Leave a comment on paragraph 1245 0 (Ecstatically.)

¶ 1246 Leave a comment on paragraph 1246 0 Ceres!

¶ 1247 Leave a comment on paragraph 1247 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1248 Leave a comment on paragraph 1248 0 Perhaps you won’t need to go very far.

¶ 1249 Leave a comment on paragraph 1249 0 CLOV:

¶ 1250 Leave a comment on paragraph 1250 0 I can’t go very far.

¶ 1251 Leave a comment on paragraph 1251 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1252 Leave a comment on paragraph 1252 0 I’ll leave you.

¶ 1253 Leave a comment on paragraph 1253 0 HAMM:

¶ 1254 Leave a comment on paragraph 1254 0 Is my dog ready?

¶ 1255 Leave a comment on paragraph 1255 0 CLOV:

¶ 1256 Leave a comment on paragraph 1256 0 He lacks a leg.

¶ 1257 Leave a comment on paragraph 1257 0 HAMM:

¶ 1258 Leave a comment on paragraph 1258 0 Is he silky?

¶ 1259 Leave a comment on paragraph 1259 0 CLOV:

¶ 1260 Leave a comment on paragraph 1260 0 He’s kind of a Pomeranian.

¶ 1261 Leave a comment on paragraph 1261 0 HAMM:

¶ 1262 Leave a comment on paragraph 1262 0 Go and get him.

¶ 1263 Leave a comment on paragraph 1263 0 CLOV:

¶ 1264 Leave a comment on paragraph 1264 0 He lacks a leg.

¶ 1265 Leave a comment on paragraph 1265 0 HAMM:

¶ 1266 Leave a comment on paragraph 1266 0 Go and get him!

¶ 1267 Leave a comment on paragraph 1267 0 (Exit Clov.)

¶ 1268 Leave a comment on paragraph 1268 0 We’re getting on.

¶ 1269 Leave a comment on paragraph 1269 1 (Enter Clov holding by one of its three legs a black toy dog.)

¶ 1270 Leave a comment on paragraph 1270 0 CLOV:

¶ 1271 Leave a comment on paragraph 1271 0 Your dogs are here.

¶ 1272 Leave a comment on paragraph 1272 0 (He hands the dog to Hamm who feels it, fondles it.)

¶ 1273 Leave a comment on paragraph 1273 0 HAMM:

¶ 1274 Leave a comment on paragraph 1274 0 He’s white, isn’t he?

¶ 1275 Leave a comment on paragraph 1275 0 CLOV:

¶ 1276 Leave a comment on paragraph 1276 0 Nearly.

¶ 1277 Leave a comment on paragraph 1277 0 HAMM:

¶ 1278 Leave a comment on paragraph 1278 0 What do you mean, nearly? Is he white or isn’t he?

¶ 1279 Leave a comment on paragraph 1279 0 CLOV:

¶ 1280 Leave a comment on paragraph 1280 0 He isn’t.

¶ 1281 Leave a comment on paragraph 1281 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1282 Leave a comment on paragraph 1282 0 HAMM:

¶ 1283 Leave a comment on paragraph 1283 0 You’ve forgotten the sex.

¶ 1284 Leave a comment on paragraph 1284 0 CLOV(vexed):

¶ 1285 Leave a comment on paragraph 1285 0 But he isn’t finished. The sex goes on at the end.

¶ 1286 Leave a comment on paragraph 1286 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1287 Leave a comment on paragraph 1287 0 HAMM:

¶ 1288 Leave a comment on paragraph 1288 0 You haven’t put on his ribbon.

¶ 1289 Leave a comment on paragraph 1289 0 CLOV(angrily):

¶ 1290 Leave a comment on paragraph 1290 0 But he isn’t finished, I tell you! First you finish your dog and then you put on his ribbon!

¶ 1291 Leave a comment on paragraph 1291 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1292 Leave a comment on paragraph 1292 0 HAMM:

¶ 1293 Leave a comment on paragraph 1293 0 Can he stand?

¶ 1294 Leave a comment on paragraph 1294 0 CLOV:

¶ 1295 Leave a comment on paragraph 1295 0 I don’t know.

¶ 1296 Leave a comment on paragraph 1296 0 HAMM:

¶ 1297 Leave a comment on paragraph 1297 0 Try.

¶ 1298 Leave a comment on paragraph 1298 0 (He hands the dog to Clov who places it on the ground.)

¶ 1299 Leave a comment on paragraph 1299 0 Well?

¶ 1300 Leave a comment on paragraph 1300 0 CLOV:

¶ 1301 Leave a comment on paragraph 1301 0 Wait!

¶ 1302 Leave a comment on paragraph 1302 0 (He squats down and tries to get the dog to stand on its three legs, fails, lets it go. The dog falls on its side.)

¶ 1303 Leave a comment on paragraph 1303 0 HAMM

¶ 1304 Leave a comment on paragraph 1304 0 (impatiently):

¶ 1305 Leave a comment on paragraph 1305 0 Well?

¶ 1306 Leave a comment on paragraph 1306 0 CLOV:

¶ 1307 Leave a comment on paragraph 1307 0 He’s standing.

¶ 1308 Leave a comment on paragraph 1308 0 HAMM

¶ 1309 Leave a comment on paragraph 1309 0 (groping for the dog):

¶ 1310 Leave a comment on paragraph 1310 0 Where? Where is he?

¶ 1311 Leave a comment on paragraph 1311 0 (Clov holds up the dog in a standing position.)

¶ 1312 Leave a comment on paragraph 1312 0 CLOV:

¶ 1313 Leave a comment on paragraph 1313 0 There.

¶ 1314 Leave a comment on paragraph 1314 0 (He takes Hamm’s hand and guides it towards the dog’s head.)

¶ 1315 Leave a comment on paragraph 1315 0 HAMM

¶ 1316 Leave a comment on paragraph 1316 0 (his hand on the dog’s head):

¶ 1317 Leave a comment on paragraph 1317 0 Is he gazing at me?

¶ 1318 Leave a comment on paragraph 1318 0 CLOV:

¶ 1319 Leave a comment on paragraph 1319 0 Yes.

¶ 1320 Leave a comment on paragraph 1320 0 HAMM

¶ 1321 Leave a comment on paragraph 1321 0 (proudly):

¶ 1322 Leave a comment on paragraph 1322 0 As if he were asking me to take him for a walk?

¶ 1323 Leave a comment on paragraph 1323 0 CLOV:

¶ 1324 Leave a comment on paragraph 1324 0 If you like.

¶ 1325 Leave a comment on paragraph 1325 0 HAMM

¶ 1326 Leave a comment on paragraph 1326 0 (as before):

¶ 1327 Leave a comment on paragraph 1327 0 Or as if he were begging me for a bone.

¶ 1328 Leave a comment on paragraph 1328 0 (He withdraws his hand.)

¶ 1329 Leave a comment on paragraph 1329 0 Leave him like that, standing there imploring me.

¶ 1330 Leave a comment on paragraph 1330 0 (Clov straightens up. The dog falls on its side.)

¶ 1331 Leave a comment on paragraph 1331 0 CLOV:

¶ 1332 Leave a comment on paragraph 1332 0 I’ll leave you.

¶ 1333 Leave a comment on paragraph 1333 0 HAMM:

¶ 1334 Leave a comment on paragraph 1334 0 Have you had your visions?

¶ 1335 Leave a comment on paragraph 1335 0 CLOV:

¶ 1336 Leave a comment on paragraph 1336 0 Less.

¶ 1337 Leave a comment on paragraph 1337 0 HAMM:

¶ 1338 Leave a comment on paragraph 1338 0 Is Mother Pegg’s light on?

¶ 1339 Leave a comment on paragraph 1339 0 CLOV:

¶ 1340 Leave a comment on paragraph 1340 0 Light! How could anyone’s light be on?

¶ 1341 Leave a comment on paragraph 1341 0 HAMM:

¶ 1342 Leave a comment on paragraph 1342 0 Extinguished!

¶ 1343 Leave a comment on paragraph 1343 0 CLOV:

¶ 1344 Leave a comment on paragraph 1344 0 Naturally it’s extinguished. If it’s not on it’s extinguished.

¶ 1345 Leave a comment on paragraph 1345 0 HAMM:

¶ 1346 Leave a comment on paragraph 1346 0 No, I mean Mother Pegg.

¶ 1347 Leave a comment on paragraph 1347 0 CLOV:

¶ 1348 Leave a comment on paragraph 1348 0 But naturally she’s extinguished!

¶ 1349 Leave a comment on paragraph 1349 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1350 Leave a comment on paragraph 1350 0 What’s the matter with you today?

¶ 1351 Leave a comment on paragraph 1351 0 HAMM:

¶ 1352 Leave a comment on paragraph 1352 0 I’m taking my course.

¶ 1353 Leave a comment on paragraph 1353 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1354 Leave a comment on paragraph 1354 0 Is she buried?

¶ 1355 Leave a comment on paragraph 1355 0 CLOV:

¶ 1356 Leave a comment on paragraph 1356 0 Buried! Who would have buried her?

¶ 1357 Leave a comment on paragraph 1357 0 HAMM:

¶ 1358 Leave a comment on paragraph 1358 0 You.

¶ 1359 Leave a comment on paragraph 1359 0 CLOV:

¶ 1360 Leave a comment on paragraph 1360 0 Me! Haven’t I enough to do without burying people?

¶ 1361 Leave a comment on paragraph 1361 0 HAMM:

¶ 1362 Leave a comment on paragraph 1362 0 But you’ll bury me.

¶ 1363 Leave a comment on paragraph 1363 0 CLOV:

¶ 1364 Leave a comment on paragraph 1364 0 No I won’t bury you.

¶ 1365 Leave a comment on paragraph 1365 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1366 Leave a comment on paragraph 1366 0 HAMM:

¶ 1367 Leave a comment on paragraph 1367 0 She was bonny once, like a flower of the field.

¶ 1368 Leave a comment on paragraph 1368 0 (With reminiscent leer.)

¶ 1369 Leave a comment on paragraph 1369 0 And a great one for the men!

¶ 1370 Leave a comment on paragraph 1370 0 CLOV:

¶ 1371 Leave a comment on paragraph 1371 0 We too were bonny—once. It’s a rare thing not to have been bonny—once.

¶ 1372 Leave a comment on paragraph 1372 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1373 Leave a comment on paragraph 1373 0 HAMM:

¶ 1374 Leave a comment on paragraph 1374 0 Go and get the gaff.

¶ 1375 Leave a comment on paragraph 1375 0 (Clov goes to the door, halts.)

¶ 1376 Leave a comment on paragraph 1376 0 CLOV:

¶ 1377 Leave a comment on paragraph 1377 0 Do this, do that, and I do it. I never refuse. Why?

¶ 1378 Leave a comment on paragraph 1378 0 HAMM:

¶ 1379 Leave a comment on paragraph 1379 0 You’re not able to.

¶ 1380 Leave a comment on paragraph 1380 0 CLOV:

¶ 1381 Leave a comment on paragraph 1381 0 Soon I won’t do it any more.

¶ 1382 Leave a comment on paragraph 1382 0 HAMM:

¶ 1383 Leave a comment on paragraph 1383 0 You won’t be able to any more.

¶ 1384 Leave a comment on paragraph 1384 0 (Exit Clov.)

¶ 1385 Leave a comment on paragraph 1385 0 Ah the creatures, the creatures, everything has to be explained to them.

¶ 1386 Leave a comment on paragraph 1386 0 (Enter Clov with gaff.)

¶ 1387 Leave a comment on paragraph 1387 0 CLOV:

¶ 1388 Leave a comment on paragraph 1388 0 Here’s your gaff. Stick it up.

¶ 1389 Leave a comment on paragraph 1389 0 (He gives the gaff to Hamm who, wielding it like a puntpole, tries to move his chair.)

¶ 1390 Leave a comment on paragraph 1390 0 HAMM:

¶ 1391 Leave a comment on paragraph 1391 0 Did I move?

¶ 1392 Leave a comment on paragraph 1392 0 CLOV:

¶ 1393 Leave a comment on paragraph 1393 0 No.

¶ 1394 Leave a comment on paragraph 1394 0 (Hamm throws down the gaff.)

¶ 1395 Leave a comment on paragraph 1395 0 HAMM:

¶ 1396 Leave a comment on paragraph 1396 0 Go and get the oilcan.

¶ 1397 Leave a comment on paragraph 1397 0 CLOV:

¶ 1398 Leave a comment on paragraph 1398 0 What for?

¶ 1399 Leave a comment on paragraph 1399 0 HAMM:

¶ 1400 Leave a comment on paragraph 1400 0 To oil the castors.

¶ 1401 Leave a comment on paragraph 1401 0 CLOV:

¶ 1402 Leave a comment on paragraph 1402 0 I oiled them yesterday.

¶ 1403 Leave a comment on paragraph 1403 0 HAMM:

¶ 1404 Leave a comment on paragraph 1404 0 Yesterday! What does that mean? Yesterday!

¶ 1405 Leave a comment on paragraph 1405 0 CLOV(violently):

¶ 1406 Leave a comment on paragraph 1406 0 That means that bloody awful day, long ago, before this bloody awful day. I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.

¶ 1407 Leave a comment on paragraph 1407 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1408 Leave a comment on paragraph 1408 0 HAMM:

¶ 1409 Leave a comment on paragraph 1409 0 I once knew a madman who thought the end of the world had come. He was a painter—and engraver. I had a great fondness for him. I used to go and see him, in the asylum. I’d take him by the hand and drag him to the window. Look! There! All that rising corn! And there! Look! The sails of the herring fleet! All that loveliness!

¶ 1410 Leave a comment on paragraph 1410 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1411 Leave a comment on paragraph 1411 0 He’d snatch away his hand and go back into his corner. Appalled. All he had seen was ashes.

¶ 1412 Leave a comment on paragraph 1412 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1413 Leave a comment on paragraph 1413 0 He alone had been spared.

¶ 1414 Leave a comment on paragraph 1414 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1415 Leave a comment on paragraph 1415 0 Forgotten.

¶ 1416 Leave a comment on paragraph 1416 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1417 Leave a comment on paragraph 1417 0 It appears the case is… was not so… so unusual.

¶ 1418 Leave a comment on paragraph 1418 0 CLOV:

¶ 1419 Leave a comment on paragraph 1419 0 A madman? When was that?

¶ 1420 Leave a comment on paragraph 1420 0 HAMM:

¶ 1421 Leave a comment on paragraph 1421 0 Oh way back, way back, you weren’t in the land of the living.

¶ 1422 Leave a comment on paragraph 1422 0 CLOV:

¶ 1423 Leave a comment on paragraph 1423 0 God be with those days.

¶ 1424 Leave a comment on paragraph 1424 0 (Pause. Hamm raises his toque.)

¶ 1425 Leave a comment on paragraph 1425 0 HAMM:

¶ 1426 Leave a comment on paragraph 1426 0 I had a great fondness for him.

¶ 1427 Leave a comment on paragraph 1427 0 (Pause. He puts on his toque again.)

¶ 1428 Leave a comment on paragraph 1428 0 He was a painter—and engraver.

¶ 1429 Leave a comment on paragraph 1429 0 CLOV:

¶ 1430 Leave a comment on paragraph 1430 0 There are so many terrible things.

¶ 1431 Leave a comment on paragraph 1431 0 HAMM:

¶ 1432 Leave a comment on paragraph 1432 0 No, no, there are not so many now.

¶ 1433 Leave a comment on paragraph 1433 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1434 Leave a comment on paragraph 1434 0 Clov!

¶ 1435 Leave a comment on paragraph 1435 0 CLOV:

¶ 1436 Leave a comment on paragraph 1436 0 Yes.

¶ 1437 Leave a comment on paragraph 1437 0 HAMM:

¶ 1438 Leave a comment on paragraph 1438 0 Do you not think this has gone on long enough?

¶ 1439 Leave a comment on paragraph 1439 0 CLOV:

¶ 1440 Leave a comment on paragraph 1440 0 Yes!

¶ 1441 Leave a comment on paragraph 1441 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1442 Leave a comment on paragraph 1442 0 What?

¶ 1443 Leave a comment on paragraph 1443 0 HAMM:

¶ 1444 Leave a comment on paragraph 1444 0 This… this… thing.

¶ 1445 Leave a comment on paragraph 1445 0 CLOV:

¶ 1446 Leave a comment on paragraph 1446 0 I’ve always thought so.

¶ 1447 Leave a comment on paragraph 1447 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1448 Leave a comment on paragraph 1448 0 You not?

¶ 1449 Leave a comment on paragraph 1449 0 HAMM

¶ 1450 Leave a comment on paragraph 1450 0 (gloomily):

¶ 1451 Leave a comment on paragraph 1451 0 Then it’s a day like any other day.

¶ 1452 Leave a comment on paragraph 1452 0 CLOV:

¶ 1453 Leave a comment on paragraph 1453 0 As long as it lasts.

¶ 1454 Leave a comment on paragraph 1454 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1455 Leave a comment on paragraph 1455 0 All life long the same inanities.

¶ 1456 Leave a comment on paragraph 1456 0 HAMM:

¶ 1457 Leave a comment on paragraph 1457 0 I can’t leave you.

¶ 1458 Leave a comment on paragraph 1458 0 CLOV:

¶ 1459 Leave a comment on paragraph 1459 0 I know. And you can’t follow me.

¶ 1460 Leave a comment on paragraph 1460 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1461 Leave a comment on paragraph 1461 0 HAMM:

¶ 1462 Leave a comment on paragraph 1462 0 If you leave me how shall I know?

¶ 1463 Leave a comment on paragraph 1463 0 CLOV(briskly):

¶ 1464 Leave a comment on paragraph 1464 0 Well you simply whistle me and if I don’t come running it means I’ve left you.

¶ 1465 Leave a comment on paragraph 1465 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1466 Leave a comment on paragraph 1466 0 HAMM:

¶ 1467 Leave a comment on paragraph 1467 0 You won’t come and kiss me goodbye?

¶ 1468 Leave a comment on paragraph 1468 0 CLOV:

¶ 1469 Leave a comment on paragraph 1469 0 Oh I shouldn’t think so.

¶ 1470 Leave a comment on paragraph 1470 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1471 Leave a comment on paragraph 1471 0 HAMM:

¶ 1472 Leave a comment on paragraph 1472 0 But you might be merely dead in your kitchen.

¶ 1473 Leave a comment on paragraph 1473 0 CLOV:

¶ 1474 Leave a comment on paragraph 1474 0 The result would be the same.

¶ 1475 Leave a comment on paragraph 1475 0 HAMM:

¶ 1476 Leave a comment on paragraph 1476 0 Yes, but how would I know, if you were merely dead in your kitchen?

¶ 1477 Leave a comment on paragraph 1477 0 CLOV:

¶ 1478 Leave a comment on paragraph 1478 0 Well… sooner or later I’d start to stink.

¶ 1479 Leave a comment on paragraph 1479 0 HAMM:

¶ 1480 Leave a comment on paragraph 1480 0 You stink already. The whole place stinks of corpses.

¶ 1481 Leave a comment on paragraph 1481 0 CLOV:

¶ 1482 Leave a comment on paragraph 1482 0 The whole universe.

¶ 1483 Leave a comment on paragraph 1483 0 HAMM

¶ 1484 Leave a comment on paragraph 1484 0 (angrily):

¶ 1485 Leave a comment on paragraph 1485 0 To hell with the universe.

¶ 1486 Leave a comment on paragraph 1486 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1487 Leave a comment on paragraph 1487 0 Think of something.

¶ 1488 Leave a comment on paragraph 1488 0 CLOV:

¶ 1489 Leave a comment on paragraph 1489 0 What?

¶ 1490 Leave a comment on paragraph 1490 0 HAMM:

¶ 1491 Leave a comment on paragraph 1491 0 An idea, have an idea.

¶ 1492 Leave a comment on paragraph 1492 0 (Angrily.)

¶ 1493 Leave a comment on paragraph 1493 0 A bright idea!

¶ 1494 Leave a comment on paragraph 1494 0 CLOV:

¶ 1495 Leave a comment on paragraph 1495 0 Ah good.

¶ 1496 Leave a comment on paragraph 1496 0 (He starts pacing to and fro, his eyes fixed on the ground, his hands behind his back. He halts.)

¶ 1497 Leave a comment on paragraph 1497 0 The pains in my legs! It’s unbelievable! Soon I won’t be able to think any more.

¶ 1498 Leave a comment on paragraph 1498 0 HAMM:

¶ 1499 Leave a comment on paragraph 1499 0 You won’t be able to leave me.

¶ 1500 Leave a comment on paragraph 1500 0 (Clov resumes his pacing.)

¶ 1501 Leave a comment on paragraph 1501 0 What are you doing?

¶ 1502 Leave a comment on paragraph 1502 0 CLOV:

¶ 1503 Leave a comment on paragraph 1503 0 Having an idea.

¶ 1504 Leave a comment on paragraph 1504 0 (He paces.)

¶ 1505 Leave a comment on paragraph 1505 0 Ah!

¶ 1506 Leave a comment on paragraph 1506 0 (He halts.)

¶ 1507 Leave a comment on paragraph 1507 0 HAMM:

¶ 1508 Leave a comment on paragraph 1508 0 What a brain!

¶ 1509 Leave a comment on paragraph 1509 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1510 Leave a comment on paragraph 1510 0 Well?

¶ 1511 Leave a comment on paragraph 1511 0 CLOV:

¶ 1512 Leave a comment on paragraph 1512 0 Wait!

¶ 1513 Leave a comment on paragraph 1513 0 (He meditates. Not very convinced.)

¶ 1514 Leave a comment on paragraph 1514 0 Yes…

¶ 1515 Leave a comment on paragraph 1515 0 (He raises his head.)

¶ 1516 Leave a comment on paragraph 1516 0 I have it! I set the alarm.

¶ 1517 Leave a comment on paragraph 1517 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1518 Leave a comment on paragraph 1518 0 HAMM:

¶ 1519 Leave a comment on paragraph 1519 0 This is perhaps not one of my bright days, but frankly—

¶ 1520 Leave a comment on paragraph 1520 0 CLOV:

¶ 1521 Leave a comment on paragraph 1521 0 You whistle me. I don’t come. The alarm rings. I’m gone. It doesn’t ring. I’m dead.

¶ 1522 Leave a comment on paragraph 1522 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1523 Leave a comment on paragraph 1523 0 HAMM:

¶ 1524 Leave a comment on paragraph 1524 0 Is it working?

¶ 1525 Leave a comment on paragraph 1525 0 (Pause. Impatiently.)

¶ 1526 Leave a comment on paragraph 1526 0 The alarm, is it working?

¶ 1527 Leave a comment on paragraph 1527 0 CLOV:

¶ 1528 Leave a comment on paragraph 1528 0 Why wouldn’t it be working?

¶ 1529 Leave a comment on paragraph 1529 0 HAMM:

¶ 1530 Leave a comment on paragraph 1530 0 Because it’s worked too much.

¶ 1531 Leave a comment on paragraph 1531 0 CLOV:

¶ 1532 Leave a comment on paragraph 1532 0 But it’s hardly worked at all.

¶ 1533 Leave a comment on paragraph 1533 0 HAMM

¶ 1534 Leave a comment on paragraph 1534 0 (angrily):

¶ 1535 Leave a comment on paragraph 1535 0 Then because it’s worked too little!

¶ 1536 Leave a comment on paragraph 1536 0 CLOV:

¶ 1537 Leave a comment on paragraph 1537 0 I’ll go and see.

¶ 1538 Leave a comment on paragraph 1538 0 (Exit Clov. Brief ring of alarm offstage. Enter Clov with alarm-clock. He holds it against Hamm’s ear and releases alarm. They listen to it ringing to the end. Pause.)

¶ 1539 Leave a comment on paragraph 1539 0 Fit to wake the dead! Did you hear it?

¶ 1540 Leave a comment on paragraph 1540 0 HAMM:

¶ 1541 Leave a comment on paragraph 1541 0 Vaguely.

¶ 1542 Leave a comment on paragraph 1542 0 CLOV:

¶ 1543 Leave a comment on paragraph 1543 0 The end is terrific!

¶ 1544 Leave a comment on paragraph 1544 0 HAMM:

¶ 1545 Leave a comment on paragraph 1545 0 I prefer the middle.

¶ 1546 Leave a comment on paragraph 1546 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1547 Leave a comment on paragraph 1547 0 Is is not time for my pain-killer?

¶ 1548 Leave a comment on paragraph 1548 0 CLOV:

¶ 1549 Leave a comment on paragraph 1549 0 No!

¶ 1550 Leave a comment on paragraph 1550 0 (He goes to door, turns.)

¶ 1551 Leave a comment on paragraph 1551 0 I’ll leave you.

¶ 1552 Leave a comment on paragraph 1552 0 HAMM:

¶ 1553 Leave a comment on paragraph 1553 0 It’s time for my story. Do you want to listen to my story?

¶ 1554 Leave a comment on paragraph 1554 0 CLOV:

¶ 1555 Leave a comment on paragraph 1555 0 No.

¶ 1556 Leave a comment on paragraph 1556 0 HAMM:

¶ 1557 Leave a comment on paragraph 1557 0 Ask my father if he wants to listen to my story.

¶ 1558 Leave a comment on paragraph 1558 0 (Clov goes to bins, raises the lid of Nagg’s, stoops, looks into it. Pause. He straightens up.)

¶ 1559 Leave a comment on paragraph 1559 0 CLOV:

¶ 1560 Leave a comment on paragraph 1560 0 He’s asleep.

¶ 1561 Leave a comment on paragraph 1561 0 HAMM:

¶ 1562 Leave a comment on paragraph 1562 0 Wake him.

¶ 1563 Leave a comment on paragraph 1563 0 (Clov stoops, wakes Nagg with the alarm. Unintelligible words. Clov straightens up.)

¶ 1564 Leave a comment on paragraph 1564 0 CLOV:

¶ 1565 Leave a comment on paragraph 1565 0 He doesn’t want to listen to your story.

¶ 1566 Leave a comment on paragraph 1566 0 HAMM:

¶ 1567 Leave a comment on paragraph 1567 0 I’ll give him a bon-bon.

¶ 1568 Leave a comment on paragraph 1568 0 (Clov stoops. As before.)

¶ 1569 Leave a comment on paragraph 1569 0 CLOV:

¶ 1570 Leave a comment on paragraph 1570 0 He wants a sugar-plum.

¶ 1571 Leave a comment on paragraph 1571 0 HAMM:

¶ 1572 Leave a comment on paragraph 1572 0 He’ll get a sugar-plum.

¶ 1573 Leave a comment on paragraph 1573 0 (Clov stoops. As before.)

¶ 1574 Leave a comment on paragraph 1574 0 CLOV:

¶ 1575 Leave a comment on paragraph 1575 0 It’s a deal.

¶ 1576 Leave a comment on paragraph 1576 0 (He goes towards door. Nagg’s hands appear, gripping the rim. Then the head emerges. Clov reaches door, turns.)

¶ 1577 Leave a comment on paragraph 1577 0 Do you believe in the life to come?

¶ 1578 Leave a comment on paragraph 1578 0 HAMM:

¶ 1579 Leave a comment on paragraph 1579 0 Mine was always that.

¶ 1580 Leave a comment on paragraph 1580 0 (Exit Clov.)

¶ 1581 Leave a comment on paragraph 1581 0 Got him that time!

¶ 1582 Leave a comment on paragraph 1582 0 NAGG:

¶ 1583 Leave a comment on paragraph 1583 0 I’m listening.

¶ 1584 Leave a comment on paragraph 1584 0 HAMM:

¶ 1585 Leave a comment on paragraph 1585 0 Scoundrel! Why did you engender me?

¶ 1586 Leave a comment on paragraph 1586 0 NAGG:

¶ 1587 Leave a comment on paragraph 1587 0 I didn’t know.

¶ 1588 Leave a comment on paragraph 1588 0 HAMM:

¶ 1589 Leave a comment on paragraph 1589 0 What? What didn’t you know?

¶ 1590 Leave a comment on paragraph 1590 0 NAGG:

¶ 1591 Leave a comment on paragraph 1591 0 That it’d be you.

¶ 1592 Leave a comment on paragraph 1592 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1593 Leave a comment on paragraph 1593 0 You’ll give me a sugar-plum?

¶ 1594 Leave a comment on paragraph 1594 0 HAMM:

¶ 1595 Leave a comment on paragraph 1595 0 After the audition.

¶ 1596 Leave a comment on paragraph 1596 0 NAGG:

¶ 1597 Leave a comment on paragraph 1597 0 You swear?

¶ 1598 Leave a comment on paragraph 1598 0 HAMM:

¶ 1599 Leave a comment on paragraph 1599 0 Yes.

¶ 1600 Leave a comment on paragraph 1600 0 NAGG:

¶ 1601 Leave a comment on paragraph 1601 0 On what?

¶ 1602 Leave a comment on paragraph 1602 0 HAMM:

¶ 1603 Leave a comment on paragraph 1603 0 My honor.

¶ 1604 Leave a comment on paragraph 1604 0 (Pause. They laugh heartily.)

¶ 1605 Leave a comment on paragraph 1605 0 NAGG:

¶ 1606 Leave a comment on paragraph 1606 0 Two.

¶ 1607 Leave a comment on paragraph 1607 0 HAMM:

¶ 1608 Leave a comment on paragraph 1608 0 One.

¶ 1609 Leave a comment on paragraph 1609 0 NAGG:

¶ 1610 Leave a comment on paragraph 1610 0 One for me and one for—

¶ 1611 Leave a comment on paragraph 1611 0 HAMM:

¶ 1612 Leave a comment on paragraph 1612 0 One! Silence!

¶ 1613 Leave a comment on paragraph 1613 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1614 Leave a comment on paragraph 1614 0 Where was I?

¶ 1615 Leave a comment on paragraph 1615 0 (Pause. Gloomily.)

¶ 1616 Leave a comment on paragraph 1616 0 It’s finished, we’re finished.

¶ 1617 Leave a comment on paragraph 1617 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1618 Leave a comment on paragraph 1618 0 Nearly finished.

¶ 1619 Leave a comment on paragraph 1619 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1620 Leave a comment on paragraph 1620 0 There’ll be no more speech.

¶ 1621 Leave a comment on paragraph 1621 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1622 Leave a comment on paragraph 1622 0 Something dripping in my head, ever since the fontanelles.

¶ 1623 Leave a comment on paragraph 1623 0 (Stifled hilarity of Nagg.)

¶ 1624 Leave a comment on paragraph 1624 0 Splash, splash, always on the same spot.

¶ 1625 Leave a comment on paragraph 1625 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1626 Leave a comment on paragraph 1626 0 Perhaps it’s a little vein.

¶ 1627 Leave a comment on paragraph 1627 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1628 Leave a comment on paragraph 1628 0 A little artery.

¶ 1629 Leave a comment on paragraph 1629 0 (Pause. More animated.)

¶ 1630 Leave a comment on paragraph 1630 0 Enough of that, it’s story time, where was I?

¶ 1631 Leave a comment on paragraph 1631 0 (Pause. Narrative tone.)

¶ 1632 Leave a comment on paragraph 1632 0 The man came crawling towards me, on his belly. Pale, wonderfully pale and thin, he seemed on the point of—

¶ 1633 Leave a comment on paragraph 1633 0 (Pause. Normal tone.)

¶ 1634 Leave a comment on paragraph 1634 0 No, I’ve done that bit.

¶ 1635 Leave a comment on paragraph 1635 0 (Pause. Narrative tone.)

¶ 1636 Leave a comment on paragraph 1636 0 I calmly filled my pipe—the meerschaum, lit it with… let us say a vesta, drew a few puffs. Aah!

¶ 1637 Leave a comment on paragraph 1637 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1638 Leave a comment on paragraph 1638 0 Well, what is it you want?

¶ 1639 Leave a comment on paragraph 1639 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1640 Leave a comment on paragraph 1640 0 It was an extra-ordinarily bitter day, I remember, zero by the thermometer. But considering it was Christmas Eve there was nothing… extra-ordinary about that. Seasonable weather, for once in a way.

¶ 1641 Leave a comment on paragraph 1641 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1642 Leave a comment on paragraph 1642 0 Well, what ill wind blows you my way? He raised his face to me, black with mingled dirt and tears.

¶ 1643 Leave a comment on paragraph 1643 0 (Pause. Normal tone.)

¶ 1644 Leave a comment on paragraph 1644 0 That should do it.

¶ 1645 Leave a comment on paragraph 1645 0 (Narrative tone.)

¶ 1646 Leave a comment on paragraph 1646 0 No no, don’t look at me, don’t look at me. He dropped his eyes and mumbled something, apologies I presume.

¶ 1647 Leave a comment on paragraph 1647 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1648 Leave a comment on paragraph 1648 0 I’m a busy man, you know, the final touches, before the festivities, you know what it is.

¶ 1649 Leave a comment on paragraph 1649 0 (Pause. Forcibly.)

¶ 1650 Leave a comment on paragraph 1650 0 Come on now, what is the object of this invasion?

¶ 1651 Leave a comment on paragraph 1651 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1652 Leave a comment on paragraph 1652 0 It was a glorious bright day, I remember, fifty by the heliometer, but already the sun was sinking down into the… down among the dead.

¶ 1653 Leave a comment on paragraph 1653 0 (Normal voice.)

¶ 1654 Leave a comment on paragraph 1654 0 Nicely put, that.

¶ 1655 Leave a comment on paragraph 1655 0 (Narrative tone.)

¶ 1656 Leave a comment on paragraph 1656 0 Come on now, come on, present your petition and let me resume my labors.

¶ 1657 Leave a comment on paragraph 1657 0 (Pause. Normal tone.)

¶ 1658 Leave a comment on paragraph 1658 0 There’s English for you. Ah well…

¶ 1659 Leave a comment on paragraph 1659 0 (Narrative tone.)

¶ 1660 Leave a comment on paragraph 1660 0 It was then he took the plunge. It’s my little one, he said. Tsstss, a little one, that’s bad. My little boy, he said, as if the sex mattered. Where did he come from? He named the hole. A good half-day, on horse. What are you insinuating? That the place is still inhabited? No no, not a soul, except himself and the child—assuming he existed. Good. I enquired about the situation at Kov, beyond the gulf. Not a sinner. Good. And you expect me to believe you have left your little one back there, all alone, and alive into the bargain? Come now!

¶ 1661 Leave a comment on paragraph 1661 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1662 Leave a comment on paragraph 1662 0 It was a howling day, I remember, a hundred by the anenometer. The wind was tearing up the dead pines and sweeping them… away.

¶ 1663 Leave a comment on paragraph 1663 0 (Pause. Normal tone.)

¶ 1664 Leave a comment on paragraph 1664 0 A feeble bit, that.

¶ 1665 Leave a comment on paragraph 1665 0 (Narrative tone.)

¶ 1666 Leave a comment on paragraph 1666 0 Come on, man, speak up, what is it you want from me, I have to put up my holly.

¶ 1667 Leave a comment on paragraph 1667 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1668 Leave a comment on paragraph 1668 0 Well to make it short it finally transpired that what he wanted from me was… bread for his brat? Bread? But I have no bread, it doesn’t agree with me. Good. Then perhaps a little corn?

¶ 1669 Leave a comment on paragraph 1669 0 (Pause. Normal tone.)

¶ 1670 Leave a comment on paragraph 1670 0 That should do it.

¶ 1671 Leave a comment on paragraph 1671 0 (Narrative tone.)

¶ 1672 Leave a comment on paragraph 1672 0 Corn, yes, I have corn, it’s true, in my granaries. But use your head. I give you some corn, a pound, a pound and a half, you bring it back to your child and you make him—if he’s still alive—a nice pot of porridge.

¶ 1673 Leave a comment on paragraph 1673 0 (Nagg reacts.)

¶ 1674 Leave a comment on paragraph 1674 0 a nice pot and a half of porridge, full of nourishment. Good. The colors come back into his little cheeks—perhaps. And then?

¶ 1675 Leave a comment on paragraph 1675 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1676 Leave a comment on paragraph 1676 0 I lost patience.

¶ 1677 Leave a comment on paragraph 1677 0 (Violently.)

¶ 1678 Leave a comment on paragraph 1678 0 Use your head, can’t you, use your head. You’re on earth, there’s no cure for that!

¶ 1679 Leave a comment on paragraph 1679 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1680 Leave a comment on paragraph 1680 0 It was an exceedingly dry day, I remember, zero by the hygrometer. Ideal weather, for my lumbago.

¶ 1681 Leave a comment on paragraph 1681 0 (Pause. Violently.)

¶ 1682 Leave a comment on paragraph 1682 0 But what in God’s name do you imagine? That the earth will awake in the spring? That the rivers and seas will run with fish again? That there’s manna in heaven still for imbeciles like you?

¶ 1683 Leave a comment on paragraph 1683 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1684 Leave a comment on paragraph 1684 0 Gradually I cooled down, sufficiently at least to ask him how long he had taken on the way. Three whole days. Good. In what condition he had left the child. Deep in sleep.

¶ 1685 Leave a comment on paragraph 1685 0 (Forcibly.)

¶ 1686 Leave a comment on paragraph 1686 0 But deep in what sleep, deep in what sleep already?

¶ 1687 Leave a comment on paragraph 1687 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1688 Leave a comment on paragraph 1688 0 Well to make it short I finally offered to take him into my service. He had touched a chord. And then I imagined already that I wasn’t much longer for this world.

¶ 1689 Leave a comment on paragraph 1689 0 (He laughs. Pause.)

¶ 1690 Leave a comment on paragraph 1690 0 Well?

¶ 1691 Leave a comment on paragraph 1691 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1692 Leave a comment on paragraph 1692 0 Well? Here if you were careful you might die a nice natural death, in peace and comfort.

¶ 1693 Leave a comment on paragraph 1693 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1694 Leave a comment on paragraph 1694 0 Well?

¶ 1695 Leave a comment on paragraph 1695 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1696 Leave a comment on paragraph 1696 0 In the end he asked me would I consent to take in the child as well—if he were still alive.

¶ 1697 Leave a comment on paragraph 1697 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1698 Leave a comment on paragraph 1698 0 It was the moment I was waiting for.

¶ 1699 Leave a comment on paragraph 1699 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1700 Leave a comment on paragraph 1700 0 Would I consent to take in the child…

¶ 1701 Leave a comment on paragraph 1701 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1702 Leave a comment on paragraph 1702 0 I can see him still, down on his knees, his hands flat on the ground, glaring at me with his mad eyes, in defiance of my wishes.

¶ 1703 Leave a comment on paragraph 1703 0 (Pause. Normal tone.)

¶ 1704 Leave a comment on paragraph 1704 0 I’ll soon have finished with this story.

¶ 1705 Leave a comment on paragraph 1705 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1706 Leave a comment on paragraph 1706 0 Unless I bring in other characters.

¶ 1707 Leave a comment on paragraph 1707 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1708 Leave a comment on paragraph 1708 0 But where would I find them?

¶ 1709 Leave a comment on paragraph 1709 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1710 Leave a comment on paragraph 1710 0 Where would I look for them?

¶ 1711 Leave a comment on paragraph 1711 0 (Pause. He whistles. Enter Clov.)

¶ 1712 Leave a comment on paragraph 1712 0 Let us pray to God.

¶ 1713 Leave a comment on paragraph 1713 0 NAGG:

¶ 1714 Leave a comment on paragraph 1714 0 Me sugar-plum!

¶ 1715 Leave a comment on paragraph 1715 0 CLOV:

¶ 1716 Leave a comment on paragraph 1716 0 There’s a rat in the kitchen!

¶ 1717 Leave a comment on paragraph 1717 0 HAMM:

¶ 1718 Leave a comment on paragraph 1718 0 A rat! Are there still rats?

¶ 1719 Leave a comment on paragraph 1719 0 CLOV:

¶ 1720 Leave a comment on paragraph 1720 0 In the kitchen there’s one.

¶ 1721 Leave a comment on paragraph 1721 0 HAMM:

¶ 1722 Leave a comment on paragraph 1722 0 And you haven’t exterminated him?

¶ 1723 Leave a comment on paragraph 1723 0 CLOV:

¶ 1724 Leave a comment on paragraph 1724 0 Half. You disturbed us.

¶ 1725 Leave a comment on paragraph 1725 0 HAMM:

¶ 1726 Leave a comment on paragraph 1726 0 He can’t get away?

¶ 1727 Leave a comment on paragraph 1727 0 CLOV:

¶ 1728 Leave a comment on paragraph 1728 0 No.

¶ 1729 Leave a comment on paragraph 1729 0 HAMM:

¶ 1730 Leave a comment on paragraph 1730 0 You’ll finish him later. Let us pray to God.

¶ 1731 Leave a comment on paragraph 1731 0 CLOV:

¶ 1732 Leave a comment on paragraph 1732 0 Again!

¶ 1733 Leave a comment on paragraph 1733 0 NAGG:

¶ 1734 Leave a comment on paragraph 1734 0 Me sugar-plum!

¶ 1735 Leave a comment on paragraph 1735 0 HAMM:

¶ 1736 Leave a comment on paragraph 1736 0 God first!

¶ 1737 Leave a comment on paragraph 1737 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1738 Leave a comment on paragraph 1738 0 Are you right?

¶ 1739 Leave a comment on paragraph 1739 0 CLOV(resigned):

¶ 1740 Leave a comment on paragraph 1740 0 Off we go.

¶ 1741 Leave a comment on paragraph 1741 0 HAMM

¶ 1742 Leave a comment on paragraph 1742 0 (to Nagg):

¶ 1743 Leave a comment on paragraph 1743 0 And you?

¶ 1744 Leave a comment on paragraph 1744 0 NAGG

¶ 1745 Leave a comment on paragraph 1745 0 (clasping his hands, closing his eyes, in a gabble):

¶ 1746 Leave a comment on paragraph 1746 0 Our Father which art—

¶ 1747 Leave a comment on paragraph 1747 0 HAMM:

¶ 1748 Leave a comment on paragraph 1748 0 Silence! In silence! Where are your manners?

¶ 1749 Leave a comment on paragraph 1749 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1750 Leave a comment on paragraph 1750 0 Off we go.

¶ 1751 Leave a comment on paragraph 1751 0 (Attitudes of prayer. Silence. Abandoning his attitude, discouraged.)

¶ 1752 Leave a comment on paragraph 1752 0 Well?

¶ 1753 Leave a comment on paragraph 1753 0 CLOV(abandoning his attitude):

¶ 1754 Leave a comment on paragraph 1754 0 What a hope! And you?

¶ 1755 Leave a comment on paragraph 1755 0 HAMM:

¶ 1756 Leave a comment on paragraph 1756 0 Sweet damn all!

¶ 1757 Leave a comment on paragraph 1757 0 (To Nagg.)

¶ 1758 Leave a comment on paragraph 1758 0 And you?

¶ 1759 Leave a comment on paragraph 1759 0 NAGG:

¶ 1760 Leave a comment on paragraph 1760 0 Wait!

¶ 1761 Leave a comment on paragraph 1761 0 (Pause. Abandoning his attitude.)

¶ 1762 Leave a comment on paragraph 1762 0 Nothing doing!

¶ 1763 Leave a comment on paragraph 1763 0 HAMM:

¶ 1764 Leave a comment on paragraph 1764 0 The bastard!! He doesn’t exist.

¶ 1765 Leave a comment on paragraph 1765 0 CLOV:

¶ 1766 Leave a comment on paragraph 1766 0 Not yet.

¶ 1767 Leave a comment on paragraph 1767 0 NAGG:

¶ 1768 Leave a comment on paragraph 1768 0 Me sugar-plum!

¶ 1769 Leave a comment on paragraph 1769 0 HAMM:

¶ 1770 Leave a comment on paragraph 1770 0 There are no more sugar plums!

¶ 1771 Leave a comment on paragraph 1771 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1772 Leave a comment on paragraph 1772 0 NAGG:

¶ 1773 Leave a comment on paragraph 1773 0 It’s natural. After all I’m your father. It’s true if it hadn’t been me it would have been someone else. But that’s no excuse.

¶ 1774 Leave a comment on paragraph 1774 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1775 Leave a comment on paragraph 1775 0 Turkish Delight, for example, which no longer exists, we all know that, there is nothing in the world I love more. And one day I’ll ask you for some, in return for a kindness, and you’ll promise it to me. One must live with the times.

¶ 1776 Leave a comment on paragraph 1776 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1777 Leave a comment on paragraph 1777 0 Whom did you call when you were a tiny boy, and were frightened, in the dark? Your mother? No. Me. We let you cry. Then we moved you out of earshot, so that we might sleep in peace.

¶ 1778 Leave a comment on paragraph 1778 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1779 Leave a comment on paragraph 1779 0 I was asleep, as happy as a king, and you woke me up to have me listen to you. It wasn’t indispensable, you didn’t really need to have me listen to you.

¶ 1780 Leave a comment on paragraph 1780 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1781 Leave a comment on paragraph 1781 0 I hope the day will come when you’ll really need to have me listen to you, and need to hear my voice, any voice.

¶ 1782 Leave a comment on paragraph 1782 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1783 Leave a comment on paragraph 1783 0 Yes, I hope I’ll live till then, to hear you calling me like when you were a tiny boy, and were frightened, in the dark, and I was your only hope.

¶ 1784 Leave a comment on paragraph 1784 0 (Pause. Nagg knocks on lid of Nell’s bin. Pause.)

¶ 1785 Leave a comment on paragraph 1785 0 Nell!

¶ 1786 Leave a comment on paragraph 1786 0 (Pause. He knocks louder. Pause. Louder.)

¶ 1787 Leave a comment on paragraph 1787 0 Nell!

¶ 1788 Leave a comment on paragraph 1788 0 (Pause. Nagg sinks back into his bin, closes the lid behind him. Pause.)

¶ 1789 Leave a comment on paragraph 1789 0 HAMM:

¶ 1790 Leave a comment on paragraph 1790 0 Our revels now are ended.

¶ 1791 Leave a comment on paragraph 1791 0 (He gropes for the dog.)

¶ 1792 Leave a comment on paragraph 1792 0 The dog’s gone.

¶ 1793 Leave a comment on paragraph 1793 0 CLOV:

¶ 1794 Leave a comment on paragraph 1794 0 He’s not a real dog, he can’t go.

¶ 1795 Leave a comment on paragraph 1795 0 HAMM

¶ 1796 Leave a comment on paragraph 1796 0 (groping):

¶ 1797 Leave a comment on paragraph 1797 0 He’s not there.

¶ 1798 Leave a comment on paragraph 1798 0 CLOV:

¶ 1799 Leave a comment on paragraph 1799 0 He’s lain down.

¶ 1800 Leave a comment on paragraph 1800 0 HAMM:

¶ 1801 Leave a comment on paragraph 1801 0 Give him up to me.

¶ 1802 Leave a comment on paragraph 1802 0 (Clov picks up the dog and gives it to Hamm. Hamm holds it in his arms. Pause. Hamm throws away the dog.)

¶ 1803 Leave a comment on paragraph 1803 0 Dirty brute!

¶ 1804 Leave a comment on paragraph 1804 0 (Clov begins to pick up the objects lying on the ground.)

¶ 1805 Leave a comment on paragraph 1805 0 What are you doing?

¶ 1806 Leave a comment on paragraph 1806 0 CLOV:

¶ 1807 Leave a comment on paragraph 1807 0 Putting things in order.

¶ 1808 Leave a comment on paragraph 1808 0 (He straightens up. Fervently.)

¶ 1809 Leave a comment on paragraph 1809 0 I’m going to clear everything away!

¶ 1810 Leave a comment on paragraph 1810 0 (He starts picking up again.)

¶ 1811 Leave a comment on paragraph 1811 0 HAMM:

¶ 1812 Leave a comment on paragraph 1812 0 Order!

¶ 1813 Leave a comment on paragraph 1813 0 CLOV(straightening up):

¶ 1814 Leave a comment on paragraph 1814 0 I love order. It’s my dream. A world where all would be silent and still and each thing in its last place, under the last dust.

¶ 1815 Leave a comment on paragraph 1815 0 (He starts picking up again.)

¶ 1816 Leave a comment on paragraph 1816 0 HAMM

¶ 1817 Leave a comment on paragraph 1817 0 (exasperated):

¶ 1818 Leave a comment on paragraph 1818 0 What in God’s name do you think you’re doing?

¶ 1819 Leave a comment on paragraph 1819 0 CLOV(straightening up):

¶ 1820 Leave a comment on paragraph 1820 0 I’m doing my best to create a little order.

¶ 1821 Leave a comment on paragraph 1821 0 HAMM:

¶ 1822 Leave a comment on paragraph 1822 0 Drop it!

¶ 1823 Leave a comment on paragraph 1823 0 (Clov drops the objects he has picked up.)

¶ 1824 Leave a comment on paragraph 1824 0 CLOV:

¶ 1825 Leave a comment on paragraph 1825 0 After all, there or elsewhere.

¶ 1826 Leave a comment on paragraph 1826 0 (He goes towards door.)

¶ 1827 Leave a comment on paragraph 1827 0 HAMM

¶ 1828 Leave a comment on paragraph 1828 0 (irritably):

¶ 1829 Leave a comment on paragraph 1829 0 What’s wrong with your feet?

¶ 1830 Leave a comment on paragraph 1830 0 CLOV:

¶ 1831 Leave a comment on paragraph 1831 0 My feet?

¶ 1832 Leave a comment on paragraph 1832 0 HAMM:

¶ 1833 Leave a comment on paragraph 1833 0 Tramp! Tramp!

¶ 1834 Leave a comment on paragraph 1834 0 CLOV:

¶ 1835 Leave a comment on paragraph 1835 0 I must have put on my boots.

¶ 1836 Leave a comment on paragraph 1836 0 HAMM:

¶ 1837 Leave a comment on paragraph 1837 0 Your slippers were hurting you?

¶ 1838 Leave a comment on paragraph 1838 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1839 Leave a comment on paragraph 1839 0 CLOV:

¶ 1840 Leave a comment on paragraph 1840 0 I’ll leave you.

¶ 1841 Leave a comment on paragraph 1841 0 HAMM:

¶ 1842 Leave a comment on paragraph 1842 0 No!

¶ 1843 Leave a comment on paragraph 1843 0 CLOV:

¶ 1844 Leave a comment on paragraph 1844 0 What is there to keep me here?

¶ 1845 Leave a comment on paragraph 1845 0 HAMM:

¶ 1846 Leave a comment on paragraph 1846 0 The dialogue.

¶ 1847 Leave a comment on paragraph 1847 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1848 Leave a comment on paragraph 1848 0 I’ve got on with my story.

¶ 1849 Leave a comment on paragraph 1849 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1850 Leave a comment on paragraph 1850 0 I’ve got on with it well.

¶ 1851 Leave a comment on paragraph 1851 0 (Pause. Irritably.)

¶ 1852 Leave a comment on paragraph 1852 0 Ask me where I’ve got to.

¶ 1853 Leave a comment on paragraph 1853 0 CLOV:

¶ 1854 Leave a comment on paragraph 1854 0 Oh, by the way, your story?

¶ 1855 Leave a comment on paragraph 1855 0 HAMM

¶ 1856 Leave a comment on paragraph 1856 0 (surprised):

¶ 1857 Leave a comment on paragraph 1857 0 What story?

¶ 1858 Leave a comment on paragraph 1858 0 CLOV:

¶ 1859 Leave a comment on paragraph 1859 0 The one you’ve been telling yourself all your days.

¶ 1860 Leave a comment on paragraph 1860 0 HAMM:

¶ 1861 Leave a comment on paragraph 1861 0 Ah you mean my chronicle?

¶ 1862 Leave a comment on paragraph 1862 0 CLOV:

¶ 1863 Leave a comment on paragraph 1863 0 That’s the one.

¶ 1864 Leave a comment on paragraph 1864 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1865 Leave a comment on paragraph 1865 0 HAMM

¶ 1866 Leave a comment on paragraph 1866 0 (angrily):

¶ 1867 Leave a comment on paragraph 1867 0 Keep going, can’t you, keep going!

¶ 1868 Leave a comment on paragraph 1868 0 CLOV:

¶ 1869 Leave a comment on paragraph 1869 0 You’ve got on with it, I hope.

¶ 1870 Leave a comment on paragraph 1870 0 HAMM

¶ 1871 Leave a comment on paragraph 1871 0 (modestly):

¶ 1872 Leave a comment on paragraph 1872 0 Oh not very far, not very far.

¶ 1873 Leave a comment on paragraph 1873 0 (He sighs.)

¶ 1874 Leave a comment on paragraph 1874 0 There are days like that, one isn’t inspired.

¶ 1875 Leave a comment on paragraph 1875 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1876 Leave a comment on paragraph 1876 0 Nothing you can do about it, just wait for it to come.

¶ 1877 Leave a comment on paragraph 1877 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1878 Leave a comment on paragraph 1878 0 No forcing, no forcing, it’s fatal.

¶ 1879 Leave a comment on paragraph 1879 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1880 Leave a comment on paragraph 1880 0 I’ve got on with it a little all the same.

¶ 1881 Leave a comment on paragraph 1881 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1882 Leave a comment on paragraph 1882 0 Technique, you know.

¶ 1883 Leave a comment on paragraph 1883 0 (Pause. Irritably.)

¶ 1884 Leave a comment on paragraph 1884 0 I say I’ve got on with it a little all the same.

¶ 1885 Leave a comment on paragraph 1885 0 CLOV(admiringly):

¶ 1886 Leave a comment on paragraph 1886 0 Well I never! In spite of everything you were able to get on with it!

¶ 1887 Leave a comment on paragraph 1887 0 HAMM

¶ 1888 Leave a comment on paragraph 1888 0 (modestly):

¶ 1889 Leave a comment on paragraph 1889 0 Oh not very far, you know, not very far, but nevertheless, better than nothing.

¶ 1890 Leave a comment on paragraph 1890 0 CLOV:

¶ 1891 Leave a comment on paragraph 1891 0 Better than nothing! Is it possible?

¶ 1892 Leave a comment on paragraph 1892 0 HAMM:

¶ 1893 Leave a comment on paragraph 1893 0 I’ll tell you how it goes. He comes crawling on his belly—

¶ 1894 Leave a comment on paragraph 1894 0 CLOV:

¶ 1895 Leave a comment on paragraph 1895 0 Who?

¶ 1896 Leave a comment on paragraph 1896 0 HAMM:

¶ 1897 Leave a comment on paragraph 1897 0 What?

¶ 1898 Leave a comment on paragraph 1898 0 CLOV:

¶ 1899 Leave a comment on paragraph 1899 0 Who do you mean, he?

¶ 1900 Leave a comment on paragraph 1900 0 HAMM:

¶ 1901 Leave a comment on paragraph 1901 0 Who do I mean! Yet another.

¶ 1902 Leave a comment on paragraph 1902 0 CLOV:

¶ 1903 Leave a comment on paragraph 1903 0 Ah him. I wasn’t sure.

¶ 1904 Leave a comment on paragraph 1904 0 HAMM:

¶ 1905 Leave a comment on paragraph 1905 0 Crawling on his belly, whining for bread for his brat. He’s offered a job as gardener. Before—

¶ 1906 Leave a comment on paragraph 1906 0 (Clov bursts out laughing.)

¶ 1907 Leave a comment on paragraph 1907 0 What is there so funny about that?

¶ 1908 Leave a comment on paragraph 1908 0 CLOV:

¶ 1909 Leave a comment on paragraph 1909 0 A job as gardener!

¶ 1910 Leave a comment on paragraph 1910 0 HAMM:

¶ 1911 Leave a comment on paragraph 1911 0 Is that what tickles you?

¶ 1912 Leave a comment on paragraph 1912 0 CLOV:

¶ 1913 Leave a comment on paragraph 1913 0 It must be that.

¶ 1914 Leave a comment on paragraph 1914 0 HAMM:

¶ 1915 Leave a comment on paragraph 1915 0 It wouldn’t be the bread?

¶ 1916 Leave a comment on paragraph 1916 0 CLOV:

¶ 1917 Leave a comment on paragraph 1917 0 Or the brat.

¶ 1918 Leave a comment on paragraph 1918 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1919 Leave a comment on paragraph 1919 0 HAMM:

¶ 1920 Leave a comment on paragraph 1920 0 The whole thing is comical, I grant you that. What about having a good guffaw, the two of us together?

¶ 1921 Leave a comment on paragraph 1921 0 CLOV(after reflection):

¶ 1922 Leave a comment on paragraph 1922 0 I couldn’t guffaw again today.

¶ 1923 Leave a comment on paragraph 1923 0 HAMM

¶ 1924 Leave a comment on paragraph 1924 0 (after reflection):

¶ 1925 Leave a comment on paragraph 1925 0 Nor I.

¶ 1926 Leave a comment on paragraph 1926 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1927 Leave a comment on paragraph 1927 0 I continue then. Before accepting with gratitude he asks if he may have his little boy with him.

¶ 1928 Leave a comment on paragraph 1928 0 CLOV:

¶ 1929 Leave a comment on paragraph 1929 0 What age?

¶ 1930 Leave a comment on paragraph 1930 0 HAMM:

¶ 1931 Leave a comment on paragraph 1931 0 Oh tiny.

¶ 1932 Leave a comment on paragraph 1932 0 CLOV:

¶ 1933 Leave a comment on paragraph 1933 0 He would have climbed the trees.

¶ 1934 Leave a comment on paragraph 1934 0 HAMM:

¶ 1935 Leave a comment on paragraph 1935 0 All the little odd jobs.

¶ 1936 Leave a comment on paragraph 1936 0 CLOV:

¶ 1937 Leave a comment on paragraph 1937 1 And then he would have grown up.

¶ 1938 Leave a comment on paragraph 1938 0 HAMM:

¶ 1939 Leave a comment on paragraph 1939 0 Very likely.

¶ 1940 Leave a comment on paragraph 1940 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1941 Leave a comment on paragraph 1941 0 CLOV:

¶ 1942 Leave a comment on paragraph 1942 0 Keep going, can’t you, keep going?

¶ 1943 Leave a comment on paragraph 1943 0 HAMM:

¶ 1944 Leave a comment on paragraph 1944 0 That’s all. I stopped there.

¶ 1945 Leave a comment on paragraph 1945 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1946 Leave a comment on paragraph 1946 0 CLOV:

¶ 1947 Leave a comment on paragraph 1947 0 Do you see how it goes on?

¶ 1948 Leave a comment on paragraph 1948 0 HAMM:

¶ 1949 Leave a comment on paragraph 1949 0 More or less.

¶ 1950 Leave a comment on paragraph 1950 0 CLOV:

¶ 1951 Leave a comment on paragraph 1951 0 Will it not soon be the end?

¶ 1952 Leave a comment on paragraph 1952 0 HAMM:

¶ 1953 Leave a comment on paragraph 1953 0 I’m afraid it will.

¶ 1954 Leave a comment on paragraph 1954 0 CLOV:

¶ 1955 Leave a comment on paragraph 1955 0 Pah! You’ll make up another.

¶ 1956 Leave a comment on paragraph 1956 0 HAMM:

¶ 1957 Leave a comment on paragraph 1957 0 I don’t know.

¶ 1958 Leave a comment on paragraph 1958 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1959 Leave a comment on paragraph 1959 0 I feel rather drained.

¶ 1960 Leave a comment on paragraph 1960 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1961 Leave a comment on paragraph 1961 0 The prolonged creative effort.

¶ 1962 Leave a comment on paragraph 1962 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1963 Leave a comment on paragraph 1963 0 If I could drag myself down to the sea! I’d make a pillow of sand for my head and the tide would come.

¶ 1964 Leave a comment on paragraph 1964 0 CLOV:

¶ 1965 Leave a comment on paragraph 1965 0 There’s no more tide.

¶ 1966 Leave a comment on paragraph 1966 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1967 Leave a comment on paragraph 1967 0 HAMM:

¶ 1968 Leave a comment on paragraph 1968 0 Go and see is she dead.

¶ 1969 Leave a comment on paragraph 1969 0 (Clov goes to bins, raises the lid of Nell’s, stoops, looks into it. Pause.)

¶ 1970 Leave a comment on paragraph 1970 0 CLOV:

¶ 1971 Leave a comment on paragraph 1971 0 Looks like it.

¶ 1972 Leave a comment on paragraph 1972 0 (He closes the lid, straightens up. Hamm raises his toque. Pause. He puts it on again.)

¶ 1973 Leave a comment on paragraph 1973 0 HAMM

¶ 1974 Leave a comment on paragraph 1974 0 (with his hand to his toque):

¶ 1975 Leave a comment on paragraph 1975 0 And Nagg?

¶ 1976 Leave a comment on paragraph 1976 0 (Clov raises lid of Nagg’s bin, stoops, looks into it. Pause.)

¶ 1977 Leave a comment on paragraph 1977 0 CLOV:

¶ 1978 Leave a comment on paragraph 1978 0 Doesn’t look like it.

¶ 1979 Leave a comment on paragraph 1979 0 (He closes the lid, straightens up.)

¶ 1980 Leave a comment on paragraph 1980 0 HAMM

¶ 1981 Leave a comment on paragraph 1981 0 (letting go his toque):

¶ 1982 Leave a comment on paragraph 1982 0 What’s he doing?

¶ 1983 Leave a comment on paragraph 1983 0 (Clov raises lid of Nagg’s bin, stoops, looks into it. Pause.)

¶ 1984 Leave a comment on paragraph 1984 0 CLOV:

¶ 1985 Leave a comment on paragraph 1985 0 He’s crying.

¶ 1986 Leave a comment on paragraph 1986 0 (He closes lid, straightens up.)

¶ 1987 Leave a comment on paragraph 1987 0 HAMM:

¶ 1988 Leave a comment on paragraph 1988 0 Then he’s living.

¶ 1989 Leave a comment on paragraph 1989 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1990 Leave a comment on paragraph 1990 0 Did you ever have an instant of happiness?

¶ 1991 Leave a comment on paragraph 1991 0 CLOV:

¶ 1992 Leave a comment on paragraph 1992 0 Not to my knowledge.

¶ 1993 Leave a comment on paragraph 1993 0 (Pause.)

¶ 1994 Leave a comment on paragraph 1994 0 HAMM:

¶ 1995 Leave a comment on paragraph 1995 0 Bring me under the window.

¶ 1996 Leave a comment on paragraph 1996 0 (Clov goes towards chair.)

¶ 1997 Leave a comment on paragraph 1997 0 I want to feel the light on my face.

¶ 1998 Leave a comment on paragraph 1998 0 (Clov pushes chair.)

¶ 1999 Leave a comment on paragraph 1999 0 Do you remember, in the beginning, when you took me for a turn? You used to hold the chair too high. At every step you nearly tipped me out.

¶ 2000 Leave a comment on paragraph 2000 0 (With senile quaver.)

¶ 2001 Leave a comment on paragraph 2001 0 Ah great fun, we had, the two of us, great fun.

¶ 2002 Leave a comment on paragraph 2002 0 (Gloomily.)

¶ 2003 Leave a comment on paragraph 2003 0 And then we got into the way of it.

¶ 2004 Leave a comment on paragraph 2004 0 (Clov stops the chair under window right.)

¶ 2005 Leave a comment on paragraph 2005 0 There already?

¶ 2006 Leave a comment on paragraph 2006 0 (Pause. He tilts back his head.)

¶ 2007 Leave a comment on paragraph 2007 0 Is it light?

¶ 2008 Leave a comment on paragraph 2008 0 CLOV:

¶ 2009 Leave a comment on paragraph 2009 0 It isn’t dark.

¶ 2010 Leave a comment on paragraph 2010 0 HAMM

¶ 2011 Leave a comment on paragraph 2011 0 (angrily):

¶ 2012 Leave a comment on paragraph 2012 0 I’m asking you is it light?

¶ 2013 Leave a comment on paragraph 2013 0 CLOV:

¶ 2014 Leave a comment on paragraph 2014 0 Yes.

¶ 2015 Leave a comment on paragraph 2015 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2016 Leave a comment on paragraph 2016 0 HAMM:

¶ 2017 Leave a comment on paragraph 2017 0 The curtain isn’t closed?

¶ 2018 Leave a comment on paragraph 2018 0 CLOV:

¶ 2019 Leave a comment on paragraph 2019 0 No.

¶ 2020 Leave a comment on paragraph 2020 0 HAMM:

¶ 2021 Leave a comment on paragraph 2021 0 What window is it?

¶ 2022 Leave a comment on paragraph 2022 0 CLOV:

¶ 2023 Leave a comment on paragraph 2023 0 The earth.

¶ 2024 Leave a comment on paragraph 2024 0 HAMM:

¶ 2025 Leave a comment on paragraph 2025 0 I knew it!

¶ 2026 Leave a comment on paragraph 2026 0 (Angrily.)

¶ 2027 Leave a comment on paragraph 2027 0 But there’s no light there! The other!

¶ 2028 Leave a comment on paragraph 2028 0 (Clov pushes chair towards window left.)

¶ 2029 Leave a comment on paragraph 2029 0 The earth!

¶ 2030 Leave a comment on paragraph 2030 0 (Clov stops the chair under window left. Hamm tilts back his head.)

¶ 2031 Leave a comment on paragraph 2031 0 That’s what I call light!

¶ 2032 Leave a comment on paragraph 2032 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2033 Leave a comment on paragraph 2033 0 Feels like a ray of sunshine.

¶ 2034 Leave a comment on paragraph 2034 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2035 Leave a comment on paragraph 2035 0 No?

¶ 2036 Leave a comment on paragraph 2036 0 CLOV:

¶ 2037 Leave a comment on paragraph 2037 0 No.

¶ 2038 Leave a comment on paragraph 2038 0 HAMM:

¶ 2039 Leave a comment on paragraph 2039 0 It isn’t a ray of sunshine I feel on my face?

¶ 2040 Leave a comment on paragraph 2040 0 CLOV:

¶ 2041 Leave a comment on paragraph 2041 0 No.

¶ 2042 Leave a comment on paragraph 2042 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2043 Leave a comment on paragraph 2043 0 HAMM:

¶ 2044 Leave a comment on paragraph 2044 0 Am I very white?

¶ 2045 Leave a comment on paragraph 2045 0 (Pause. Angrily.)

¶ 2046 Leave a comment on paragraph 2046 0 I’m asking you am I very white?

¶ 2047 Leave a comment on paragraph 2047 0 CLOV:

¶ 2048 Leave a comment on paragraph 2048 0 Not more so than usual.

¶ 2049 Leave a comment on paragraph 2049 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2050 Leave a comment on paragraph 2050 0 HAMM:

¶ 2051 Leave a comment on paragraph 2051 0 Open the window.

¶ 2052 Leave a comment on paragraph 2052 0 CLOV:

¶ 2053 Leave a comment on paragraph 2053 0 What for?

¶ 2054 Leave a comment on paragraph 2054 0 HAMM:

¶ 2055 Leave a comment on paragraph 2055 0 I want to hear the sea.

¶ 2056 Leave a comment on paragraph 2056 0 CLOV:

¶ 2057 Leave a comment on paragraph 2057 0 You wouldn’t hear it.

¶ 2058 Leave a comment on paragraph 2058 0 HAMM:

¶ 2059 Leave a comment on paragraph 2059 0 Even if you opened the window?

¶ 2060 Leave a comment on paragraph 2060 0 CLOV:

¶ 2061 Leave a comment on paragraph 2061 0 No.

¶ 2062 Leave a comment on paragraph 2062 0 HAMM:

¶ 2063 Leave a comment on paragraph 2063 0 Than it’s not worth while opening it?

¶ 2064 Leave a comment on paragraph 2064 0 CLOV:

¶ 2065 Leave a comment on paragraph 2065 0 No.

¶ 2066 Leave a comment on paragraph 2066 0 HAMM

¶ 2067 Leave a comment on paragraph 2067 0 (violently):

¶ 2068 Leave a comment on paragraph 2068 0 Than open it!

¶ 2069 Leave a comment on paragraph 2069 0 (Clov gets up on the ladder, opens the window. Pause.)

¶ 2070 Leave a comment on paragraph 2070 0 Have you opened it?

¶ 2071 Leave a comment on paragraph 2071 0 CLOV:

¶ 2072 Leave a comment on paragraph 2072 0 Yes.

¶ 2073 Leave a comment on paragraph 2073 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2074 Leave a comment on paragraph 2074 0 HAMM:

¶ 2075 Leave a comment on paragraph 2075 0 You swear you’ve opened it?

¶ 2076 Leave a comment on paragraph 2076 0 CLOV:

¶ 2077 Leave a comment on paragraph 2077 0 Yes.

¶ 2078 Leave a comment on paragraph 2078 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2079 Leave a comment on paragraph 2079 0 HAMM:

¶ 2080 Leave a comment on paragraph 2080 0 Well…!

¶ 2081 Leave a comment on paragraph 2081 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2082 Leave a comment on paragraph 2082 0 It must be very calm.

¶ 2083 Leave a comment on paragraph 2083 0 (Pause. Violently.)

¶ 2084 Leave a comment on paragraph 2084 0 I’m asking you is it very calm!

¶ 2085 Leave a comment on paragraph 2085 0 CLOV:

¶ 2086 Leave a comment on paragraph 2086 0 Yes.

¶ 2087 Leave a comment on paragraph 2087 0 HAMM:

¶ 2088 Leave a comment on paragraph 2088 0 It’s because there are no more navigators.

¶ 2089 Leave a comment on paragraph 2089 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2090 Leave a comment on paragraph 2090 0 You haven’t much conversation all of a sudden. Do you not feel well?

¶ 2091 Leave a comment on paragraph 2091 0 CLOV:

¶ 2092 Leave a comment on paragraph 2092 0 I’m cold.

¶ 2093 Leave a comment on paragraph 2093 0 HAMM:

¶ 2094 Leave a comment on paragraph 2094 0 What month are we?

¶ 2095 Leave a comment on paragraph 2095 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2096 Leave a comment on paragraph 2096 0 Close the window, we’re going back.

¶ 2097 Leave a comment on paragraph 2097 0 (Clov closes the window, gets down, pushes the chair back to its place, remains standing behind it, head bowed.)

¶ 2098 Leave a comment on paragraph 2098 0 Don’t stand there, you give me the shivers!

¶ 2099 Leave a comment on paragraph 2099 0 (Clov returns to his place beside the chair.)

¶ 2100 Leave a comment on paragraph 2100 0 Father!

¶ 2101 Leave a comment on paragraph 2101 0 (Pause. Louder.)

¶ 2102 Leave a comment on paragraph 2102 0 Father!

¶ 2103 Leave a comment on paragraph 2103 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2104 Leave a comment on paragraph 2104 0 Go and see did he hear me.

¶ 2105 Leave a comment on paragraph 2105 0 (Clov goes to Nagg’s bin, raises the lid, stoops. Unintelligible words. Clov straightens up.)

¶ 2106 Leave a comment on paragraph 2106 0 CLOV:

¶ 2107 Leave a comment on paragraph 2107 0 Yes.

¶ 2108 Leave a comment on paragraph 2108 0 HAMM:

¶ 2109 Leave a comment on paragraph 2109 0 Both times?

¶ 2110 Leave a comment on paragraph 2110 0 (Clov stoops. As before.)

¶ 2111 Leave a comment on paragraph 2111 0 CLOV:

¶ 2112 Leave a comment on paragraph 2112 0 Once only.

¶ 2113 Leave a comment on paragraph 2113 0 HAMM:

¶ 2114 Leave a comment on paragraph 2114 0 The first time or the second?

¶ 2115 Leave a comment on paragraph 2115 0 (Clov stoops. As before.)

¶ 2116 Leave a comment on paragraph 2116 0 CLOV:

¶ 2117 Leave a comment on paragraph 2117 0 He doesn’t know.

¶ 2118 Leave a comment on paragraph 2118 0 HAMM:

¶ 2119 Leave a comment on paragraph 2119 0 It must have been the second.

¶ 2120 Leave a comment on paragraph 2120 0 CLOV:

¶ 2121 Leave a comment on paragraph 2121 0 We’ll never know.

¶ 2122 Leave a comment on paragraph 2122 0 (He closes lid.)

¶ 2123 Leave a comment on paragraph 2123 0 HAMM:

¶ 2124 Leave a comment on paragraph 2124 0 Is he still crying?

¶ 2125 Leave a comment on paragraph 2125 0 CLOV:

¶ 2126 Leave a comment on paragraph 2126 0 No.

¶ 2127 Leave a comment on paragraph 2127 0 HAMM:

¶ 2128 Leave a comment on paragraph 2128 0 The dead go fast.

¶ 2129 Leave a comment on paragraph 2129 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2130 Leave a comment on paragraph 2130 0 What’s he doing?

¶ 2131 Leave a comment on paragraph 2131 0 CLOV:

¶ 2132 Leave a comment on paragraph 2132 0 Sucking his biscuit.

¶ 2133 Leave a comment on paragraph 2133 0 HAMM:

¶ 2134 Leave a comment on paragraph 2134 0 Life goes on.

¶ 2135 Leave a comment on paragraph 2135 0 (Clov returns to his place beside the chair.)

¶ 2136 Leave a comment on paragraph 2136 0 Give me the rug, I’m freezing.

¶ 2137 Leave a comment on paragraph 2137 0 CLOV:

¶ 2138 Leave a comment on paragraph 2138 0 There are no more rugs.

¶ 2139 Leave a comment on paragraph 2139 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2140 Leave a comment on paragraph 2140 0 HAMM:

¶ 2141 Leave a comment on paragraph 2141 0 Kiss me.

¶ 2142 Leave a comment on paragraph 2142 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2143 Leave a comment on paragraph 2143 0 Will you not kiss me?

¶ 2144 Leave a comment on paragraph 2144 0 CLOV:

¶ 2145 Leave a comment on paragraph 2145 0 No.

¶ 2146 Leave a comment on paragraph 2146 0 HAMM:

¶ 2147 Leave a comment on paragraph 2147 0 On the forehead.

¶ 2148 Leave a comment on paragraph 2148 0 CLOV:

¶ 2149 Leave a comment on paragraph 2149 0 I won’t kiss you anywhere.

¶ 2150 Leave a comment on paragraph 2150 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2151 Leave a comment on paragraph 2151 0 HAMM

¶ 2152 Leave a comment on paragraph 2152 0 (holding out his hand):

¶ 2153 Leave a comment on paragraph 2153 0 Give me your hand at least.

¶ 2154 Leave a comment on paragraph 2154 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2155 Leave a comment on paragraph 2155 0 Will you not give me your hand?

¶ 2156 Leave a comment on paragraph 2156 0 CLOV:

¶ 2157 Leave a comment on paragraph 2157 0 I won’t touch you.

¶ 2158 Leave a comment on paragraph 2158 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2159 Leave a comment on paragraph 2159 0 HAMM:

¶ 2160 Leave a comment on paragraph 2160 0 Give me the dog.

¶ 2161 Leave a comment on paragraph 2161 0 (Clov looks round for the dog.)

¶ 2162 Leave a comment on paragraph 2162 0 No!

¶ 2163 Leave a comment on paragraph 2163 0 CLOV:

¶ 2164 Leave a comment on paragraph 2164 0 Do you not want your dog?

¶ 2165 Leave a comment on paragraph 2165 0 HAMM:

¶ 2166 Leave a comment on paragraph 2166 0 No.

¶ 2167 Leave a comment on paragraph 2167 0 CLOV:

¶ 2168 Leave a comment on paragraph 2168 0 Then I’ll leave you.

¶ 2169 Leave a comment on paragraph 2169 0 HAMM

¶ 2170 Leave a comment on paragraph 2170 0 (head bowed, absently):

¶ 2171 Leave a comment on paragraph 2171 0 That’s right.

¶ 2172 Leave a comment on paragraph 2172 0 (Clov goes to door, turns.)

¶ 2173 Leave a comment on paragraph 2173 0 CLOV:

¶ 2174 Leave a comment on paragraph 2174 0 If I don’t kill that rat he’ll die.

¶ 2175 Leave a comment on paragraph 2175 0 HAMM

¶ 2176 Leave a comment on paragraph 2176 0 (as before):

¶ 2177 Leave a comment on paragraph 2177 0 That’s right.

¶ 2178 Leave a comment on paragraph 2178 0 (Exit Clov. Pause.)

¶ 2179 Leave a comment on paragraph 2179 0 Me to play.

¶ 2180 Leave a comment on paragraph 2180 0 (He takes out his handkerchief, unfolds it, holds it spread out before him.)

¶ 2181 Leave a comment on paragraph 2181 0 We’re getting on.

¶ 2182 Leave a comment on paragraph 2182 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2183 Leave a comment on paragraph 2183 0 You weep, and weep, for nothing, so as not to laugh, and little by little… you begin to grieve.

¶ 2184 Leave a comment on paragraph 2184 0 (He folds the handkerchief, puts it back in his pocket, raises his head.)

¶ 2185 Leave a comment on paragraph 2185 0 All those I might have helped.

¶ 2186 Leave a comment on paragraph 2186 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2187 Leave a comment on paragraph 2187 0 Helped!

¶ 2188 Leave a comment on paragraph 2188 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2189 Leave a comment on paragraph 2189 0 Saved.

¶ 2190 Leave a comment on paragraph 2190 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2191 Leave a comment on paragraph 2191 0 Saved!

¶ 2192 Leave a comment on paragraph 2192 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2193 Leave a comment on paragraph 2193 0 The place was crawling with them

¶ 2194 Leave a comment on paragraph 2194 0 (Pause. Violently.)

¶ 2195 Leave a comment on paragraph 2195 0 Use your head, can’t you, use your head, you’re on earth, there’s no cure for that!

¶ 2196 Leave a comment on paragraph 2196 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2197 Leave a comment on paragraph 2197 0 Get out of here and love one another! Lick your neighbor as yourself!

¶ 2198 Leave a comment on paragraph 2198 0 (Pause. Calmer.)

¶ 2199 Leave a comment on paragraph 2199 0 When it wasn’t bread they wanted it was crumpets.

¶ 2200 Leave a comment on paragraph 2200 0 (Pause. Violently.)

¶ 2201 Leave a comment on paragraph 2201 0 Out of my sight and back to your petting parties!

¶ 2202 Leave a comment on paragraph 2202 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2203 Leave a comment on paragraph 2203 0 All that, all that!

¶ 2204 Leave a comment on paragraph 2204 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2205 Leave a comment on paragraph 2205 0 Not even a real dog!

¶ 2206 Leave a comment on paragraph 2206 0 (Calmer.)

¶ 2207 Leave a comment on paragraph 2207 0 The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.

¶ 2208 Leave a comment on paragraph 2208 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2209 Leave a comment on paragraph 2209 0 Perhaps I could go on with my story, end it and begin another.

¶ 2210 Leave a comment on paragraph 2210 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2211 Leave a comment on paragraph 2211 0 Perhaps I could throw myself out on the floor.

¶ 2212 Leave a comment on paragraph 2212 0 (He pushes himself painfully off his seat, falls back again.)

¶ 2213 Leave a comment on paragraph 2213 0 Dig my nails into the cracks and drag myself forward with my fingers.

¶ 2214 Leave a comment on paragraph 2214 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2215 Leave a comment on paragraph 2215 0 It will be the end and there I’ll be, wondering what can have brought it on and wondering what can have…

¶ 2216 Leave a comment on paragraph 2216 0 (he hesitates)

¶ 2217 Leave a comment on paragraph 2217 0 …why it was so long coming.

¶ 2218 Leave a comment on paragraph 2218 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2219 Leave a comment on paragraph 2219 0 There I’ll be, in the old shelter, alone against the silence and…

¶ 2220 Leave a comment on paragraph 2220 0 (he hesitates)

¶ 2221 Leave a comment on paragraph 2221 0 …the stillness. If I can hold my peace, and sit quiet, it will be all over with sound, and motion, all over and done with.

¶ 2222 Leave a comment on paragraph 2222 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2223 Leave a comment on paragraph 2223 1 I’ll have called my father and I’ll have called my…

¶ 2224 Leave a comment on paragraph 2224 0 (he hesitates)

¶ 2225 Leave a comment on paragraph 2225 0 …my son. And even twice, or three times, in case they shouldn’t have heard me, the first time, or the second.

¶ 2226 Leave a comment on paragraph 2226 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2227 Leave a comment on paragraph 2227 0 I’ll say to myself, He’ll come back.

¶ 2228 Leave a comment on paragraph 2228 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2229 Leave a comment on paragraph 2229 0 And then?

¶ 2230 Leave a comment on paragraph 2230 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2231 Leave a comment on paragraph 2231 0 And then?

¶ 2232 Leave a comment on paragraph 2232 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2233 Leave a comment on paragraph 2233 0 He couldn’t, He has gone too far.

¶ 2234 Leave a comment on paragraph 2234 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2235 Leave a comment on paragraph 2235 0 And then?

¶ 2236 Leave a comment on paragraph 2236 0 (Pause. Very agitated.)

¶ 2237 Leave a comment on paragraph 2237 0 All kinds of fantasies! That I’m being watched! A rat! Steps! Breath held and then…

¶ 2238 Leave a comment on paragraph 2238 0 (He breathes out.)

¶ 2239 Leave a comment on paragraph 2239 0 Then babble, babble, words, like the solitary child who turns himself into children, two, three, so as to be together, and whisper together, in the dark.

¶ 2240 Leave a comment on paragraph 2240 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2241 Leave a comment on paragraph 2241 1 Moment upon moment, pattering down, like the millet grains of…

¶ 2242 Leave a comment on paragraph 2242 0 (he hesitates)

¶ 2243 Leave a comment on paragraph 2243 0 …that old Greek, and all life long you wait for that to mount up to a life.

¶ 2244 Leave a comment on paragraph 2244 0 (Pause. He opens his mouth to continue, renounces.)

¶ 2245 Leave a comment on paragraph 2245 0 Ah let’s get it over!

¶ 2246 Leave a comment on paragraph 2246 0 (He whistles. Enter Clov with alarm-clock. He halts beside the chair.)

¶ 2247 Leave a comment on paragraph 2247 0 What? Neither gone nor dead?

¶ 2248 Leave a comment on paragraph 2248 0 CLOV:

¶ 2249 Leave a comment on paragraph 2249 0 In spirit only.

¶ 2250 Leave a comment on paragraph 2250 0 HAMM:

¶ 2251 Leave a comment on paragraph 2251 0 Which?

¶ 2252 Leave a comment on paragraph 2252 0 CLOV:

¶ 2253 Leave a comment on paragraph 2253 0 Both.

¶ 2254 Leave a comment on paragraph 2254 0 HAMM:

¶ 2255 Leave a comment on paragraph 2255 0 Gone from me you’d be dead.

¶ 2256 Leave a comment on paragraph 2256 0 CLOV:

¶ 2257 Leave a comment on paragraph 2257 0 And vice versa.

¶ 2258 Leave a comment on paragraph 2258 0 HAMM:

¶ 2259 Leave a comment on paragraph 2259 0 Outside of here it’s death!

¶ 2260 Leave a comment on paragraph 2260 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2261 Leave a comment on paragraph 2261 0 And the rat?

¶ 2262 Leave a comment on paragraph 2262 0 CLOV:

¶ 2263 Leave a comment on paragraph 2263 0 He’s got away.

¶ 2264 Leave a comment on paragraph 2264 0 HAMM:

¶ 2265 Leave a comment on paragraph 2265 0 He can’t go far.

¶ 2266 Leave a comment on paragraph 2266 0 (Pause. Anxious.)

¶ 2267 Leave a comment on paragraph 2267 0 Eh?

¶ 2268 Leave a comment on paragraph 2268 0 CLOV:

¶ 2269 Leave a comment on paragraph 2269 0 He doesn’t need to go far.

¶ 2270 Leave a comment on paragraph 2270 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2271 Leave a comment on paragraph 2271 0 HAMM:

¶ 2272 Leave a comment on paragraph 2272 0 Is it not time for my pain-killer?

¶ 2273 Leave a comment on paragraph 2273 0 CLOV:

¶ 2274 Leave a comment on paragraph 2274 0 Yes.

¶ 2275 Leave a comment on paragraph 2275 0 HAMM:

¶ 2276 Leave a comment on paragraph 2276 0 Ah! At last! Give it to me! Quick!

¶ 2277 Leave a comment on paragraph 2277 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2278 Leave a comment on paragraph 2278 0 CLOV:

¶ 2279 Leave a comment on paragraph 2279 0 There’s no more pain-killer.

¶ 2280 Leave a comment on paragraph 2280 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2281 Leave a comment on paragraph 2281 0 HAMM

¶ 2282 Leave a comment on paragraph 2282 0 (appalled):

¶ 2283 Leave a comment on paragraph 2283 0 Good…!

¶ 2284 Leave a comment on paragraph 2284 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2285 Leave a comment on paragraph 2285 0 No more pain-killer!

¶ 2286 Leave a comment on paragraph 2286 0 CLOV:

¶ 2287 Leave a comment on paragraph 2287 0 No more pain-killer. You’ll never get any more pain-killer.

¶ 2288 Leave a comment on paragraph 2288 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2289 Leave a comment on paragraph 2289 0 HAMM:

¶ 2290 Leave a comment on paragraph 2290 0 But the little round box. It was full!

¶ 2291 Leave a comment on paragraph 2291 0 CLOV:

¶ 2292 Leave a comment on paragraph 2292 0 Yes. But now it’s empty.

¶ 2293 Leave a comment on paragraph 2293 0 (Pause. Clov starts to move about the room. He is looking for a place to put down the alarm-clock.)

¶ 2294 Leave a comment on paragraph 2294 0 HAMM

¶ 2295 Leave a comment on paragraph 2295 0 (soft):

¶ 2296 Leave a comment on paragraph 2296 0 What’ll I do?

¶ 2297 Leave a comment on paragraph 2297 0 (Pause. In a scream.)

¶ 2298 Leave a comment on paragraph 2298 0 What’ll I do?

¶ 2299 Leave a comment on paragraph 2299 0 (Clov sees the picture, takes it down, stands it on the floor with its face to the wall, hangs up the alarmclock in its place.)

¶ 2300 Leave a comment on paragraph 2300 0 What are you doing?

¶ 2301 Leave a comment on paragraph 2301 0 CLOV:

¶ 2302 Leave a comment on paragraph 2302 0 Winding up.

¶ 2303 Leave a comment on paragraph 2303 0 HAMM:

¶ 2304 Leave a comment on paragraph 2304 0 Look at the earth.

¶ 2305 Leave a comment on paragraph 2305 0 CLOV:

¶ 2306 Leave a comment on paragraph 2306 0 Again!

¶ 2307 Leave a comment on paragraph 2307 0 HAMM:

¶ 2308 Leave a comment on paragraph 2308 0 Since it’s calling to you.

¶ 2309 Leave a comment on paragraph 2309 0 CLOV:

¶ 2310 Leave a comment on paragraph 2310 0 Is your throat sore?

¶ 2311 Leave a comment on paragraph 2311 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2312 Leave a comment on paragraph 2312 0 Would you like a lozenge?

¶ 2313 Leave a comment on paragraph 2313 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2314 Leave a comment on paragraph 2314 0 No.

¶ 2315 Leave a comment on paragraph 2315 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2316 Leave a comment on paragraph 2316 0 Pity.

¶ 2317 Leave a comment on paragraph 2317 0 (Clov goes, humming, towards window right, halts before it, looks up at it.)

¶ 2318 Leave a comment on paragraph 2318 0 HAMM:

¶ 2319 Leave a comment on paragraph 2319 0 Don’t sing.

¶ 2320 Leave a comment on paragraph 2320 0 CLOV(turning towards Hamm):

¶ 2321 Leave a comment on paragraph 2321 0 One hasn’t the right to sing any more?

¶ 2322 Leave a comment on paragraph 2322 0 HAMM:

¶ 2323 Leave a comment on paragraph 2323 0 No.

¶ 2324 Leave a comment on paragraph 2324 0 CLOV:

¶ 2325 Leave a comment on paragraph 2325 0 Then how can it end?

¶ 2326 Leave a comment on paragraph 2326 0 HAMM:

¶ 2327 Leave a comment on paragraph 2327 0 You want it to end?

¶ 2328 Leave a comment on paragraph 2328 0 CLOV:

¶ 2329 Leave a comment on paragraph 2329 0 I want to sing.

¶ 2330 Leave a comment on paragraph 2330 0 HAMM:

¶ 2331 Leave a comment on paragraph 2331 0 I can’t prevent you.

¶ 2332 Leave a comment on paragraph 2332 0 (Pause. Clov turns towards window right.)

¶ 2333 Leave a comment on paragraph 2333 0 CLOV:

¶ 2334 Leave a comment on paragraph 2334 0 What did I do with that steps?

¶ 2335 Leave a comment on paragraph 2335 0 (He looks around for ladder.)

¶ 2336 Leave a comment on paragraph 2336 0 You didn’t see that steps?

¶ 2337 Leave a comment on paragraph 2337 0 (He sees it.)

¶ 2338 Leave a comment on paragraph 2338 0 Ah, about time.

¶ 2339 Leave a comment on paragraph 2339 0 (He goes towards window left.)

¶ 2340 Leave a comment on paragraph 2340 0 Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes over and I’m as lucid as before.

¶ 2341 Leave a comment on paragraph 2341 0 (He gets up on ladder, looks out of window.)

¶ 2342 Leave a comment on paragraph 2342 0 Christ, she’s under water!

¶ 2343 Leave a comment on paragraph 2343 0 (He looks.)

¶ 2344 Leave a comment on paragraph 2344 0 How can that be?

¶ 2345 Leave a comment on paragraph 2345 0 (He pokes forward his head, his hand above his eyes.)

¶ 2346 Leave a comment on paragraph 2346 0 It hasn’t rained.

¶ 2347 Leave a comment on paragraph 2347 0 (He wipes the pane, looks. Pause.)

¶ 2348 Leave a comment on paragraph 2348 0 Ah what a fool I am! I’m on the wrong side!

¶ 2349 Leave a comment on paragraph 2349 0 (He gets down, takes a few steps towards window right.)

¶ 2350 Leave a comment on paragraph 2350 0 Under water!

¶ 2351 Leave a comment on paragraph 2351 0 (He goes back for ladder.)

¶ 2352 Leave a comment on paragraph 2352 0 What a fool I am!

¶ 2353 Leave a comment on paragraph 2353 0 (He carries ladder towards window right.)

¶ 2354 Leave a comment on paragraph 2354 0 Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right senses. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.

¶ 2355 Leave a comment on paragraph 2355 0 (He sets down ladder under window right, gets up on it, looks out of window. He turns towards Hamm.)

¶ 2356 Leave a comment on paragraph 2356 0 Any particular sector you fancy? Or merely the whole thing?

¶ 2357 Leave a comment on paragraph 2357 0 HAMM:

¶ 2358 Leave a comment on paragraph 2358 0 Whole thing.

¶ 2359 Leave a comment on paragraph 2359 0 CLOV:

¶ 2360 Leave a comment on paragraph 2360 0 The general effect? Just a moment.

¶ 2361 Leave a comment on paragraph 2361 0 (He looks out of window. Pause.)

¶ 2362 Leave a comment on paragraph 2362 0 HAMM:

¶ 2363 Leave a comment on paragraph 2363 0 Clov.

¶ 2364 Leave a comment on paragraph 2364 0 CLOV(absorbed):

¶ 2365 Leave a comment on paragraph 2365 0 Mmm.

¶ 2366 Leave a comment on paragraph 2366 0 HAMM:

¶ 2367 Leave a comment on paragraph 2367 0 Do you know what it is?

¶ 2368 Leave a comment on paragraph 2368 0 CLOV(as before):

¶ 2369 Leave a comment on paragraph 2369 0 Mmm.

¶ 2370 Leave a comment on paragraph 2370 0 HAMM:

¶ 2371 Leave a comment on paragraph 2371 0 I was never there.

¶ 2372 Leave a comment on paragraph 2372 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2373 Leave a comment on paragraph 2373 0 Clov!

¶ 2374 Leave a comment on paragraph 2374 0 CLOV(turning towards Hamm, exasperated):

¶ 2375 Leave a comment on paragraph 2375 0 What is it?

¶ 2376 Leave a comment on paragraph 2376 0 HAMM:

¶ 2377 Leave a comment on paragraph 2377 0 I was never there.

¶ 2378 Leave a comment on paragraph 2378 0 CLOV:

¶ 2379 Leave a comment on paragraph 2379 0 Lucky for you.

¶ 2380 Leave a comment on paragraph 2380 0 (He looks out of window.)

¶ 2381 Leave a comment on paragraph 2381 0 HAMM:

¶ 2382 Leave a comment on paragraph 2382 0 Absent, always. It all happened without me. I don’t know what’s happened.

¶ 2383 Leave a comment on paragraph 2383 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2384 Leave a comment on paragraph 2384 0 Do you know what’s happened?

¶ 2385 Leave a comment on paragraph 2385 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2386 Leave a comment on paragraph 2386 0 Clov!

¶ 2387 Leave a comment on paragraph 2387 0 CLOV(turning towards Hamm, exasperated):

¶ 2388 Leave a comment on paragraph 2388 0 Do you want me to look at this muckheap, yes or no?

¶ 2389 Leave a comment on paragraph 2389 0 HAMM:

¶ 2390 Leave a comment on paragraph 2390 0 Answer me first.

¶ 2391 Leave a comment on paragraph 2391 0 CLOV:

¶ 2392 Leave a comment on paragraph 2392 0 What?

¶ 2393 Leave a comment on paragraph 2393 0 HAMM:

¶ 2394 Leave a comment on paragraph 2394 0 Do you know what’s happened?

¶ 2395 Leave a comment on paragraph 2395 0 CLOV:

¶ 2396 Leave a comment on paragraph 2396 0 When? Where?

¶ 2397 Leave a comment on paragraph 2397 0 HAMM

¶ 2398 Leave a comment on paragraph 2398 0 (violently):

¶ 2399 Leave a comment on paragraph 2399 0 When! What’s happened? Use your head, can’t you! What has happened?

¶ 2400 Leave a comment on paragraph 2400 0 CLOV:

¶ 2401 Leave a comment on paragraph 2401 0 What for Christ’s sake does it matter?

¶ 2402 Leave a comment on paragraph 2402 0 (He looks out of window.)

¶ 2403 Leave a comment on paragraph 2403 0 HAMM:

¶ 2404 Leave a comment on paragraph 2404 0 I don’t know.

¶ 2405 Leave a comment on paragraph 2405 0 (Pause. Clov turns towards Hamm.)

¶ 2406 Leave a comment on paragraph 2406 0 CLOV(harshly):

¶ 2407 Leave a comment on paragraph 2407 0 When old Mother Pegg asked you for oil for her lamp and you told her to get out to hell, you knew what was happening then, no?

¶ 2408 Leave a comment on paragraph 2408 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2409 Leave a comment on paragraph 2409 0 You know what she died of, Mother Pegg? Of darkness.

¶ 2410 Leave a comment on paragraph 2410 0 HAMM

¶ 2411 Leave a comment on paragraph 2411 0 (feebly):

¶ 2412 Leave a comment on paragraph 2412 0 I hadn’t any.

¶ 2413 Leave a comment on paragraph 2413 0 CLOV(as before):

¶ 2414 Leave a comment on paragraph 2414 0 Yes, you had.

¶ 2415 Leave a comment on paragraph 2415 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2416 Leave a comment on paragraph 2416 0 HAMM:

¶ 2417 Leave a comment on paragraph 2417 0 Have you the glass?

¶ 2418 Leave a comment on paragraph 2418 0 CLOV:

¶ 2419 Leave a comment on paragraph 2419 0 No, it’s clear enough as it is.

¶ 2420 Leave a comment on paragraph 2420 0 HAMM:

¶ 2421 Leave a comment on paragraph 2421 0 Go and get it.

¶ 2422 Leave a comment on paragraph 2422 0 (Pause. Clov casts up his eyes, brandishes his fists. He loses balance, clutches on to the ladder. He starts to get down, halts.)

¶ 2423 Leave a comment on paragraph 2423 0 CLOV:

¶ 2424 Leave a comment on paragraph 2424 0 There’s one thing I’ll never understand.

¶ 2425 Leave a comment on paragraph 2425 0 (He gets down.)

¶ 2426 Leave a comment on paragraph 2426 0 Why I always obey you. Can you explain that to me?

¶ 2427 Leave a comment on paragraph 2427 0 HAMM:

¶ 2428 Leave a comment on paragraph 2428 0 No… Perhaps it’s compassion.

¶ 2429 Leave a comment on paragraph 2429 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2430 Leave a comment on paragraph 2430 0 A kind of great compassion.

¶ 2431 Leave a comment on paragraph 2431 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2432 Leave a comment on paragraph 2432 0 Oh you won’t find it easy, you won’t find it easy.

¶ 2433 Leave a comment on paragraph 2433 0 (Pause. Clov begins to move about the room in search of the telescope.)

¶ 2434 Leave a comment on paragraph 2434 0 CLOV:

¶ 2435 Leave a comment on paragraph 2435 0 I’m tired of our goings on, very tired.

¶ 2436 Leave a comment on paragraph 2436 0 (He searches.)

¶ 2437 Leave a comment on paragraph 2437 0 You’re not sitting on it?

¶ 2438 Leave a comment on paragraph 2438 0 (He moves the chair, looks at the place where it stood, resumes his search.)

¶ 2439 Leave a comment on paragraph 2439 0 HAMM

¶ 2440 Leave a comment on paragraph 2440 0 (anguished):

¶ 2441 Leave a comment on paragraph 2441 0 Don’t leave me there!

¶ 2442 Leave a comment on paragraph 2442 0 (Angrily Clov restores the chair to its place.)

¶ 2443 Leave a comment on paragraph 2443 0 Am I right in the center?

¶ 2444 Leave a comment on paragraph 2444 0 CLOV:

¶ 2445 Leave a comment on paragraph 2445 0 You’d need a microscope to find this—

¶ 2446 Leave a comment on paragraph 2446 0 (He sees the telescope.)

¶ 2447 Leave a comment on paragraph 2447 0 Ah, about time.

¶ 2448 Leave a comment on paragraph 2448 0 (He picks up the telescope, gets up on the ladder, turns the telescope on the without.)

¶ 2449 Leave a comment on paragraph 2449 0 HAMM:

¶ 2450 Leave a comment on paragraph 2450 0 Give me the dog.

¶ 2451 Leave a comment on paragraph 2451 0 CLOV(looking):

¶ 2452 Leave a comment on paragraph 2452 2 Quiet!

¶ 2453 Leave a comment on paragraph 2453 1 HAMM

¶ 2454 Leave a comment on paragraph 2454 0 (angrily):

¶ 2455 Leave a comment on paragraph 2455 0 Give me the dog!

¶ 2456 Leave a comment on paragraph 2456 0 (Clov drops the telescope, clasps his hands to his head. Pause. He gets down precipitately, looks for the dog, sees it, picks it up, hastens towards Hamm and strikes him violently on the head with the dog.)

¶ 2457 Leave a comment on paragraph 2457 0 CLOV:

¶ 2458 Leave a comment on paragraph 2458 0 There’s your dog for you.

¶ 2459 Leave a comment on paragraph 2459 0 (The dog falls to the ground. Pause.)

¶ 2460 Leave a comment on paragraph 2460 0 HAMM:

¶ 2461 Leave a comment on paragraph 2461 0 He hit me!

¶ 2462 Leave a comment on paragraph 2462 0 CLOV:

¶ 2463 Leave a comment on paragraph 2463 0 You drive me mad, I’m mad!

¶ 2464 Leave a comment on paragraph 2464 0 HAMM:

¶ 2465 Leave a comment on paragraph 2465 0 If you must hit me, hit me with the axe.

¶ 2466 Leave a comment on paragraph 2466 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2467 Leave a comment on paragraph 2467 0 Or with the gaff, hit me with the gaff. Not with the dog. With the gaff. Or with the axe.

¶ 2468 Leave a comment on paragraph 2468 0 (Clov picks up the dog and gives it to Hamm who takes it in his arms.)

¶ 2469 Leave a comment on paragraph 2469 0 CLOV(impatiently):

¶ 2470 Leave a comment on paragraph 2470 0 Let’s stop playing!

¶ 2471 Leave a comment on paragraph 2471 0 HAMM:

¶ 2472 Leave a comment on paragraph 2472 0 Never!

¶ 2473 Leave a comment on paragraph 2473 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2474 Leave a comment on paragraph 2474 0 Put me in my coffin.

¶ 2475 Leave a comment on paragraph 2475 0 CLOV:

¶ 2476 Leave a comment on paragraph 2476 0 There are no more coffins.

¶ 2477 Leave a comment on paragraph 2477 0 HAMM:

¶ 2478 Leave a comment on paragraph 2478 0 Then let it end!

¶ 2479 Leave a comment on paragraph 2479 0 (Clov goes towards ladder.)

¶ 2480 Leave a comment on paragraph 2480 0 With a bang!

¶ 2481 Leave a comment on paragraph 2481 0 (Clov gets up on ladder, gets down again, looks for telescope, sees it, picks it up, gets up on ladder, raises telescope.)

¶ 2482 Leave a comment on paragraph 2482 0 Of darkness! And me? Did anyone ever have pity on me?

¶ 2483 Leave a comment on paragraph 2483 0 CLOV(lowering the telescope, turning towards Hamm):

¶ 2484 Leave a comment on paragraph 2484 0 What?

¶ 2485 Leave a comment on paragraph 2485 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2486 Leave a comment on paragraph 2486 0 Is it me you’re referring to?

¶ 2487 Leave a comment on paragraph 2487 0 HAMM

¶ 2488 Leave a comment on paragraph 2488 0 (angrily):

¶ 2489 Leave a comment on paragraph 2489 0 An aside, ape! Did you never hear an aside before?

¶ 2490 Leave a comment on paragraph 2490 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2491 Leave a comment on paragraph 2491 0 I’m warming up for my last soliloquy.

¶ 2492 Leave a comment on paragraph 2492 0 CLOV:

¶ 2493 Leave a comment on paragraph 2493 1 I warn you. I’m going to look at this filth since it’s an order. But it’s the last time.

¶ 2494 Leave a comment on paragraph 2494 0 (He turns the telescope on the without.)

¶ 2495 Leave a comment on paragraph 2495 0 Let’s see.

¶ 2496 Leave a comment on paragraph 2496 0 (He moves the telescope.)

¶ 2497 Leave a comment on paragraph 2497 0 Nothing… nothing… good… good… nothing… goo—

¶ 2498 Leave a comment on paragraph 2498 0 (He starts, lowers the telescope, examines it, turns it again on the without. Pause.)

¶ 2499 Leave a comment on paragraph 2499 0 Bad luck to it!

¶ 2500 Leave a comment on paragraph 2500 0 HAMM:

¶ 2501 Leave a comment on paragraph 2501 0 More complications!

¶ 2502 Leave a comment on paragraph 2502 0 (Clov gets down.)

¶ 2503 Leave a comment on paragraph 2503 0 Not an underplot, I trust.

¶ 2504 Leave a comment on paragraph 2504 0 (Clov moves ladder nearer window, gets up on it, turns telescope on the without.)

¶ 2505 Leave a comment on paragraph 2505 0 CLOV(dismayed):

¶ 2506 Leave a comment on paragraph 2506 0 Looks like a small boy!

¶ 2507 Leave a comment on paragraph 2507 0 HAMM

¶ 2508 Leave a comment on paragraph 2508 0 (sarcastic):

¶ 2509 Leave a comment on paragraph 2509 0 A small… boy!

¶ 2510 Leave a comment on paragraph 2510 0 CLOV:

¶ 2511 Leave a comment on paragraph 2511 0 I’ll go and see.

¶ 2512 Leave a comment on paragraph 2512 0 (He gets down, drops the telescope, goes towards door, turns.)

¶ 2513 Leave a comment on paragraph 2513 0 I’ll take the gaff.

¶ 2514 Leave a comment on paragraph 2514 0 (He looks for the gaff, sees it, picks it up, hastens towards door.)

¶ 2515 Leave a comment on paragraph 2515 0 HAMM:

¶ 2516 Leave a comment on paragraph 2516 0 No!

¶ 2517 Leave a comment on paragraph 2517 0 (Clov halts.)

¶ 2518 Leave a comment on paragraph 2518 0 CLOV:

¶ 2519 Leave a comment on paragraph 2519 0 No? A potential procreator?

¶ 2520 Leave a comment on paragraph 2520 0 HAMM:

¶ 2521 Leave a comment on paragraph 2521 0 If he exists he’ll die there or he’ll come here. And if he doesn’t…

¶ 2522 Leave a comment on paragraph 2522 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2523 Leave a comment on paragraph 2523 0 CLOV:

¶ 2524 Leave a comment on paragraph 2524 0 You don’t believe me? You think I’m inventing?

¶ 2525 Leave a comment on paragraph 2525 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2526 Leave a comment on paragraph 2526 0 HAMM:

¶ 2527 Leave a comment on paragraph 2527 0 It’s the end, Clov, we’ve come to the end. I don’t need you any more.

¶ 2528 Leave a comment on paragraph 2528 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2529 Leave a comment on paragraph 2529 0 CLOV:

¶ 2530 Leave a comment on paragraph 2530 0 Lucky for you.

¶ 2531 Leave a comment on paragraph 2531 0 (He goes towards door.)

¶ 2532 Leave a comment on paragraph 2532 0 HAMM:

¶ 2533 Leave a comment on paragraph 2533 0 Leave me the gaff.

¶ 2534 Leave a comment on paragraph 2534 0 (Clov gives him the gaff, goes towards door, halts, looks at alarm-clock, takes it down, looks round for a better place to put it, goes to bins, puts it on lid of Nagg’s bin. Pause.)

¶ 2535 Leave a comment on paragraph 2535 0 CLOV:

¶ 2536 Leave a comment on paragraph 2536 0 I’ll leave you.

¶ 2537 Leave a comment on paragraph 2537 0 (He goes towards door.)

¶ 2538 Leave a comment on paragraph 2538 0 HAMM:

¶ 2539 Leave a comment on paragraph 2539 0 Before you go…

¶ 2540 Leave a comment on paragraph 2540 0 (Clov halts near door.)

¶ 2541 Leave a comment on paragraph 2541 0 …say something.

¶ 2542 Leave a comment on paragraph 2542 0 CLOV:

¶ 2543 Leave a comment on paragraph 2543 0 There is nothing to say.

¶ 2544 Leave a comment on paragraph 2544 0 HAMM:

¶ 2545 Leave a comment on paragraph 2545 0 A few words… to ponder… in my heart.

¶ 2546 Leave a comment on paragraph 2546 0 CLOV:

¶ 2547 Leave a comment on paragraph 2547 0 Your heart!

¶ 2548 Leave a comment on paragraph 2548 0 HAMM:

¶ 2549 Leave a comment on paragraph 2549 0 Yes.

¶ 2550 Leave a comment on paragraph 2550 0 (Pause. Forcibly.)

¶ 2551 Leave a comment on paragraph 2551 0 Yes!

¶ 2552 Leave a comment on paragraph 2552 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2553 Leave a comment on paragraph 2553 0 With the rest, in the end, the shadows, the murmurs, all the trouble, to end up with.

¶ 2554 Leave a comment on paragraph 2554 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2555 Leave a comment on paragraph 2555 0 Clov… He never spoke to me. Then, in the end, before he went, without my having asked him, he spoke to me. He said…

¶ 2556 Leave a comment on paragraph 2556 0 CLOV(despairingly):

¶ 2557 Leave a comment on paragraph 2557 0 Ah…!

¶ 2558 Leave a comment on paragraph 2558 0 HAMM:

¶ 2559 Leave a comment on paragraph 2559 0 Something… from your heart.

¶ 2560 Leave a comment on paragraph 2560 0 CLOV:

¶ 2561 Leave a comment on paragraph 2561 0 My heart!

¶ 2562 Leave a comment on paragraph 2562 0 HAMM:

¶ 2563 Leave a comment on paragraph 2563 0 A few words… from your heart.

¶ 2564 Leave a comment on paragraph 2564 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2565 Leave a comment on paragraph 2565 0 CLOV(fixed gaze, tonelessly, towards auditorium):

¶ 2566 Leave a comment on paragraph 2566 0 They said to me, That’s love, yes, yes, not a doubt, now you see how—

¶ 2567 Leave a comment on paragraph 2567 0 HAMM:

¶ 2568 Leave a comment on paragraph 2568 0 Articulate!

¶ 2569 Leave a comment on paragraph 2569 0 CLOV(as before):

¶ 2570 Leave a comment on paragraph 2570 2 How easy it is. They said to me, That’s friendship, yes, yes, no question, you’ve found it. They said to me, Here’s the place, stop, raise your head and look at all that beauty. That order! They said to me, Come now, you’re not a brute beast, think upon these things and you’ll see how all becomes clear. And simple! They said to me, What skilled attention they get, all these dying of their wounds.

¶ 2571 Leave a comment on paragraph 2571 0 HAMM:

¶ 2572 Leave a comment on paragraph 2572 0 Enough!

¶ 2573 Leave a comment on paragraph 2573 0 CLOV(as before):

¶ 2574 Leave a comment on paragraph 2574 0 I say to myself— sometimes, Clov, you must learn to suffer better than that if you want them to weary of punishing you— one day. I say to myself—sometimes, Clov, you must be better than that if you want them to let you go—one day. But I feel too old, and too far, to form new habits. Good, it’ll never end, I’ll never go.

¶ 2575 Leave a comment on paragraph 2575 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2576 Leave a comment on paragraph 2576 0 Then one day, suddenly, it ends, it changes, I don’t understand, it dies, or it’s me, I don’t understand that either. I ask the words that remain— sleeping, waking, morning, evening. They have nothing to say.

¶ 2577 Leave a comment on paragraph 2577 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2578 Leave a comment on paragraph 2578 0 I open the door of the cell and go. I am so bowed I only see my feet, if I open my eyes, and between my legs a little trail of black dust. I say to myself that the earth is extinguished, though I never saw it lit.

¶ 2579 Leave a comment on paragraph 2579 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2580 Leave a comment on paragraph 2580 0 It’s easy going.

¶ 2581 Leave a comment on paragraph 2581 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2582 Leave a comment on paragraph 2582 0 When I fall I’ll weep for happiness.

¶ 2583 Leave a comment on paragraph 2583 0 (Pause. He goes towards door.)

¶ 2584 Leave a comment on paragraph 2584 0 HAMM:

¶ 2585 Leave a comment on paragraph 2585 0 Clov!

¶ 2586 Leave a comment on paragraph 2586 0 (Clov halts, without turning.)

¶ 2587 Leave a comment on paragraph 2587 0 Nothing.

¶ 2588 Leave a comment on paragraph 2588 0 (Clov moves on.)

¶ 2589 Leave a comment on paragraph 2589 0 Clov!

¶ 2590 Leave a comment on paragraph 2590 0 (Clov halts, without turning.)

¶ 2591 Leave a comment on paragraph 2591 0 CLOV:

¶ 2592 Leave a comment on paragraph 2592 0 This is what we call making an exit.

¶ 2593 Leave a comment on paragraph 2593 0 HAMM:

¶ 2594 Leave a comment on paragraph 2594 0 I’m obliged to you, Clov. For your services.

¶ 2595 Leave a comment on paragraph 2595 0 CLOV(turning sharply):

¶ 2596 Leave a comment on paragraph 2596 0 Ah pardon, it’s I am obliged to you.

¶ 2597 Leave a comment on paragraph 2597 0 HAMM:

¶ 2598 Leave a comment on paragraph 2598 0 It’s we are obliged to each other.

¶ 2599 Leave a comment on paragraph 2599 0 (Pause. Clov goes towards door.)

¶ 2600 Leave a comment on paragraph 2600 0 One thing more.

¶ 2601 Leave a comment on paragraph 2601 0 (Clov halts.)

¶ 2602 Leave a comment on paragraph 2602 0 A last favor.

¶ 2603 Leave a comment on paragraph 2603 0 (Exit Clov.)

¶ 2604 Leave a comment on paragraph 2604 0 Cover me with the sheet.

¶ 2605 Leave a comment on paragraph 2605 0 (Long pause.)

¶ 2606 Leave a comment on paragraph 2606 0 No? Good.

¶ 2607 Leave a comment on paragraph 2607 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2608 Leave a comment on paragraph 2608 1 Me to play.

¶ 2609 Leave a comment on paragraph 2609 0 (Pause. Wearily.)

¶ 2610 Leave a comment on paragraph 2610 0 Old endgame lost of old, play and lose and have done with losing.

¶ 2611 Leave a comment on paragraph 2611 0 (Pause. More animated.)

¶ 2612 Leave a comment on paragraph 2612 0 Let me see.

¶ 2613 Leave a comment on paragraph 2613 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2614 Leave a comment on paragraph 2614 0 Ah yes!

¶ 2615 Leave a comment on paragraph 2615 0 (He tries to move the chair, using the gaff as before. Enter Clov, dressed for the road. Panama hat, tweed coat, raincoat over his arm, umbrella, bag. He halts by the door and stands there, impassive and motionless, his eyes fixed on Hamm, till the end.)

¶ 2616 Leave a comment on paragraph 2616 0 Hamm gives up:

¶ 2617 Leave a comment on paragraph 2617 0 Good.

¶ 2618 Leave a comment on paragraph 2618 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2619 Leave a comment on paragraph 2619 0 Discard.

¶ 2620 Leave a comment on paragraph 2620 0 (He throws away the gaff, makes to throw away the dog, thinks better of it.)

¶ 2621 Leave a comment on paragraph 2621 0 Take it easy.

¶ 2622 Leave a comment on paragraph 2622 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2623 Leave a comment on paragraph 2623 0 And now?

¶ 2624 Leave a comment on paragraph 2624 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2625 Leave a comment on paragraph 2625 0 Raise hat.

¶ 2626 Leave a comment on paragraph 2626 0 (He raises his toque.)

¶ 2627 Leave a comment on paragraph 2627 0 Peace to our… arses.

¶ 2628 Leave a comment on paragraph 2628 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2629 Leave a comment on paragraph 2629 0 And put on again.

¶ 2630 Leave a comment on paragraph 2630 0 (He puts on his toque.)

¶ 2631 Leave a comment on paragraph 2631 0 Deuce.

¶ 2632 Leave a comment on paragraph 2632 0 (Pause. He takes off his glasses.)

¶ 2633 Leave a comment on paragraph 2633 0 Wipe.

¶ 2634 Leave a comment on paragraph 2634 0 (He takes out his handkerchief and, without unfolding it, wipes his glasses.)

¶ 2635 Leave a comment on paragraph 2635 0 And put on again.

¶ 2636 Leave a comment on paragraph 2636 0 (He puts on his glasses, puts back the handkerchief in his pocket.)

¶ 2637 Leave a comment on paragraph 2637 0 We’re coming. A few more squirms like that and I’ll call.

¶ 2638 Leave a comment on paragraph 2638 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2639 Leave a comment on paragraph 2639 0 A little poetry.

¶ 2640 Leave a comment on paragraph 2640 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2641 Leave a comment on paragraph 2641 0 You prayed—

¶ 2642 Leave a comment on paragraph 2642 0 (Pause. He corrects himself.)

¶ 2643 Leave a comment on paragraph 2643 0 You CRIED for night; it comes—

¶ 2644 Leave a comment on paragraph 2644 0 (Pause. He corrects himself.)

¶ 2645 Leave a comment on paragraph 2645 0 It FALLS:

¶ 2646 Leave a comment on paragraph 2646 0 now cry in darkness.

¶ 2647 Leave a comment on paragraph 2647 0 (He repeats, chanting.)

¶ 2648 Leave a comment on paragraph 2648 0 You cried for night; it falls:

¶ 2649 Leave a comment on paragraph 2649 0 now cry in darkness.

¶ 2650 Leave a comment on paragraph 2650 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2651 Leave a comment on paragraph 2651 0 Nicely put, that.

¶ 2652 Leave a comment on paragraph 2652 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2653 Leave a comment on paragraph 2653 0 And now?

¶ 2654 Leave a comment on paragraph 2654 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2655 Leave a comment on paragraph 2655 0 Moments for nothing, now as always, time was never and time is over, reckoning closed and story ended.

¶ 2656 Leave a comment on paragraph 2656 0 (Pause. Narrative tone.)

¶ 2657 Leave a comment on paragraph 2657 0 If he could have his child with him…

¶ 2658 Leave a comment on paragraph 2658 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2659 Leave a comment on paragraph 2659 0 It was the moment I was waiting for.

¶ 2660 Leave a comment on paragraph 2660 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2661 Leave a comment on paragraph 2661 0 You don’t want to abandon him? You want him to bloom while you are withering? Be there to solace your last million last moments?

¶ 2662 Leave a comment on paragraph 2662 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2663 Leave a comment on paragraph 2663 0 He doesn’t realize, all he knows is hunger, and cold, and death to crown it all. But you! You ought to know what the earth is like, nowadays. Oh I put him before his responsibilities!

¶ 2664 Leave a comment on paragraph 2664 0 (Pause. Normal tone.)

¶ 2665 Leave a comment on paragraph 2665 0 Well, there we are, there I am, that’s enough.

¶ 2666 Leave a comment on paragraph 2666 0 (He raises the whistle to his lips, hesitates, drops it. Pause.)

¶ 2667 Leave a comment on paragraph 2667 0 Yes, truly!

¶ 2668 Leave a comment on paragraph 2668 0 (He whistles. Pause. Louder. Pause.)

¶ 2669 Leave a comment on paragraph 2669 0 Good.

¶ 2670 Leave a comment on paragraph 2670 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2671 Leave a comment on paragraph 2671 0 Father!

¶ 2672 Leave a comment on paragraph 2672 0 (Pause. Louder.)

¶ 2673 Leave a comment on paragraph 2673 0 Father!

¶ 2674 Leave a comment on paragraph 2674 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2675 Leave a comment on paragraph 2675 0 Good.

¶ 2676 Leave a comment on paragraph 2676 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2677 Leave a comment on paragraph 2677 0 We’re coming.

¶ 2678 Leave a comment on paragraph 2678 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2679 Leave a comment on paragraph 2679 0 And to end up with?

¶ 2680 Leave a comment on paragraph 2680 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2681 Leave a comment on paragraph 2681 0 Discard.

¶ 2682 Leave a comment on paragraph 2682 0 (He throws away the dog. He tears the whistle from his neck.)

¶ 2683 Leave a comment on paragraph 2683 0 With my compliments.

¶ 2684 Leave a comment on paragraph 2684 0 (He throws the whistle towards the auditorium. Pause. He sniffs. Soft.)

¶ 2685 Leave a comment on paragraph 2685 0 Clov!

¶ 2686 Leave a comment on paragraph 2686 0 (Long pause.)

¶ 2687 Leave a comment on paragraph 2687 0 No? Good.

¶ 2688 Leave a comment on paragraph 2688 0 (He takes out the handkerchief.)

¶ 2689 Leave a comment on paragraph 2689 0 Since that’s the way we’re playing it…

¶ 2690 Leave a comment on paragraph 2690 0 (he unfolds handkerchief)

¶ 2691 Leave a comment on paragraph 2691 0 …let’s play it that way…

¶ 2692 Leave a comment on paragraph 2692 0 (he unfolds)

¶ 2693 Leave a comment on paragraph 2693 0 …and speak no more about it…

¶ 2694 Leave a comment on paragraph 2694 0 (he finishes unfolding)

¶ 2695 Leave a comment on paragraph 2695 0 …speak no more.

¶ 2696 Leave a comment on paragraph 2696 0 (He holds handkerchief spread out before him.)

¶ 2697 Leave a comment on paragraph 2697 0 Old stancher!

¶ 2698 Leave a comment on paragraph 2698 0 (Pause.)

¶ 2699 Leave a comment on paragraph 2699 0 You… remain.

¶ 2700 Leave a comment on paragraph 2700 2 (Pause. He covers his face with handkerchief, lowers his arms to armrests, remains motionless.)

¶ 2701 Leave a comment on paragraph 2701 0 (Brief tableau.)

¶ 2702 Leave a comment on paragraph 2702 0 Curtain

¶ 2703 Leave a comment on paragraph 2703 0