HAMM:
God first!
(Pause.)
Are you right?
CLOV (resigned):
Off we go.
HAMM (to Nagg):
And you?
NAGG (clasping his hands, closing his eyes, in a gabble):
Our Father which art—
HAMM:
Silence! In silence! Where are your manners?
(Pause.)
Off we go.
(Attitudes of prayer. Silence. Abandoning his attitude, discouraged.)
Well?
CLOV (abandoning his attitude):
What a hope! And you?
HAMM:
Sweet damn all!
(To Nagg.)
And you?
NAGG:
Wait!
(Pause. Abandoning his attitude.)
Nothing doing!
HAMM:
The bastard!! He doesn’t exist.
CLOV:
Not yet.

— Beckett, Endgame

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