Book: Endgame
Quotes of Book: Endgame
Io mi dico... qualche volta, Clov, bisogna che tu riesca a soffrire meglio di così, se vuoi che si stanchino di punirti... un giorno. Mi dico... qualche volta, Clov, bisogna che tu sia presente meglio di così, se vuoi che ti lascino partire... un giorno. Ma mi sento troppo vecchio, e troppo lontano, per poter formare nuove abitudini. Bene, e allora non finirà proprio mai, non partirò proprio mai. {Pausa}. Poi, un giorno, all'improvviso, ecco che finisce, che cambia, io non capisco, ecco che muore, o forse sono io, non capisco neanche questo. Io lo domando alle parole che restano... sonno, risveglio, sera, mattina. Ma loro non sanno dirmi niente. {Pausa}. Apro la porta del capannone e me ne vado. Sono talmente curvo che vedo solo i miei piedi, se apro gli occhi, e tra le gambe un po' di polvere nerastra. Mi dico che la terra si è spenta, benché io non l'abbia mai vista accesa. {Pausa}. È facile andare. {Pausa}. Quando cadrò, piangerò di gioia. book-quoteThen 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." book-quoteHAMM:In my house.{pause.}One day you'll be blind, like me. You'll be sitting there, a speck in the void, in the dark, for ever, like me.{pause.}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.{pause.}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.{pause.}Infinite emptiness will be all around you, all the resurrected dead of all the ages wouldn't fill it, and there you'll be like a little bit of grit in the middle of the steppe.{pause.}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.{pause.} book-quotesamuel-beckettFinished, it's finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished. Grain upon grain, one by one, and one day, suddenly, there's a heap, a little heap, the impossible heap. I can't be punished any more. I'll go now to my kitchen, ten feet by ten feet by ten feet, and wait for him to whistle me. Nice dimensions, nice proportions, I'll lean on the table, and look at the wall, and wait for him to whistle me. book-quote
