Endgame and Act Without Words. Samuel Beckett

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СКАЧАТЬ I can’t be getting you up and putting you to bed every five minutes, I have things to do.

      [Pause.]

      HAMM Did you ever see my eyes?

      CLOV No.

      HAMM Did you never have the curiosity, while I was sleeping, to take off my glasses and look at my eyes?

      CLOV Pulling back the lids?

      [Pause.]

      No.

      HAMM One of these days I’ll show them to you.

      [Pause.]

      It seems they’ve gone all white.

      [Pause.]

      What time is it?

      CLOV The same as usual.

      HAMM [gesture towards window right] Have you looked?

      CLOV Yes.

      HAMM Well?

      CLOV Zero.

      HAMM It’d need to rain.

      CLOV It won’t rain.

      [Pause.]

      HAMM Apart from that, how do you feel?

      CLOV I don’t complain.

      HAMM You feel normal?

      CLOV [irritably] I tell you I don’t complain.

      HAMM I feel a little queer.

      [Pause.]

      Clov!

      CLOV Yes.

      HAMM Have you not had enough?

      CLOV Yes!

      [Pause.]

      Of what?

      HAMM Of this . . . this . . . thing.

      CLOV I always had.

      [Pause.]

      Not you?

      HAMM [gloomily] Then there’s no reason for it to change.

      CLOV It may end.

      [Pause.]

      All life long the same questions, the same answers.

      HAMM Get me ready.

      [Clov does not move.]

      Go and get the sheet.

      [Clov does not move.]

      Clov!

      CLOV Yes.

      HAMM I’ll give you nothing more to eat.

      CLOV Then we’ll die.

      HAMM I’ll give you just enough to keep you from dying. You’ll be hungry all the time.

      CLOV Then we won’t die.

      [Pause.]

      I’ll go and get the sheet.

      [He goes towards the door.]

      HAMM No!

      [Clov halts.]

      I’ll give you one biscuit per day.

      [Pause.]

      One and a half.

      [Pause.]

      Why do you stay with me?

      CLOV Why do you keep me?

      HAMM There’s no one else.

      CLOV There’s nowhere else.

      [Pause.]

      HAMM You’re leaving me all the same.

      CLOV I’m trying.

      HAMM You don’t love me.

      CLOV No.

      HAMM You loved me once.

      CLOV Once!

      HAMM I’ve made you suffer too much.

      [Pause.]

      Haven’t I?

      CLOV It’s not that.

      HAMM [shocked] I haven’t made you suffer too much?

      CLOV Yes!

      HAMM [relieved] Ah you gave me a fright!

      [Pause. Coldly.]

      Forgive me.

      [Pause. Louder.]

      I said, Forgive me.

      CLOV I heard you.

      [Pause.]

      Have you bled?

      HAMM Less.

      [Pause.]

      Is it not time for my pain-killer?

      CLOV No.

      [Pause.]

      HAMM How are your eyes?

      CLOV Bad.

      HAMM How are your legs?

      CLOV Bad.

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