Endgame and Act Without Words. Samuel Beckett

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      CLOV Yes.

      HAMM [violently] Then move!

      [Clov goes to back wall, leans against it with his forehead and hands.]

      Where are you?

      CLOV Here.

      HAMM Come back!

      [Clov returns to his place beside the chair.]

      Where are you?

      CLOV Here.

      HAMM Why don’t you kill me?

      CLOV I don’t know the combination of the cupboard.

      [Pause.]

      HAMM Go and get two bicycle-wheels.

      CLOV There are no more bicycle-wheels.

      HAMM What have you done with your bicycle?

      CLOV I never had a bicycle.

      HAMM The thing is impossible.

      CLOV 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.

      HAMM And your rounds? When you inspected my paupers. Always on foot?

      CLOV Sometimes on horse.

      [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.]

      I’ll leave you, I have things to do.

      HAMM In your kitchen?

      CLOV Yes.

      HAMM Outside of here it’s death.

      [Pause.]

      All right, be off.

      [Exit Clov. Pause.]

      We’re getting on.

      NAGG Me pap!

      HAMM Accursed progenitor!

      NAGG Me pap!

      HAMM The old folks at home! No decency left! Guzzle, guzzle, that’s all they think of.

      [He whistles. Enter Clov. He halts beside the chair.]

      Well! I thought you were leaving me.

      CLOV Oh not just yet, not just yet.

      NAGG Me pap!

      HAMM Give him his pap.

      CLOV There’s no more pap.

      HAMM [to Nagg] Do you hear that? There’s no more pap. You’ll never get any more pap.

      NAGG I want me pap!

      HAMM Give him a biscuit.

      [Exit Clov.]

      Accursed fornicator! How are your stumps?

      NAGG Never mind me stumps.

      [Enter Clov with biscuit.]

      CLOV I’m back again, with the biscuit.

      [He gives biscuit to Nagg who fingers it, sniffs it.]

      NAGG [plaintively] What is it?

      CLOV Spratt’s medium.

      NAGG [as before] It’s hard! I can’t!

      HAMM Bottle him!

      [Clov pushes Nagg back into the bin, closes the lid.]

      CLOV [returning to his place beside the chair] If age but knew!

      HAMM Sit on him!

      CLOV I can’t sit.

      HAMM True. And I can’t stand.

      CLOV So it is.

      HAMM Every man his speciality.

      [Pause.]

      No phone calls?

      [Pause.]

      Don’t we laugh?

      CLOV [after reflection] I don’t feel like it.

      HAMM [after reflection] Nor I.

      [Pause.]

      Clov!

      CLOV Yes.

      HAMM Nature has forgotten us.

      CLOV There’s no more nature.

      HAMM No more nature! You exaggerate.

      CLOV In the vicinity.

      HAMM But we breathe, we change! We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom! Our ideals!

      CLOV Then she hasn’t forgotten us.

      HAMM But you say there is none.

      CLOV [sadly] No one that ever lived ever thought so crooked as we.

      HAMM We do what we can.

      CLOV We shouldn’t.

      [Pause.]

      HAMM You’re a bit of all right, aren’t you?

      CLOV A smithereen.

      [Pause.]

      HAMM This is slow work.

      [Pause.]

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