Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
En attendant Godot / Waiting for Godot

MS-BL-LCP-1954-23

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Segment 1

VLADIMIR

[0223] Pah! [0224] (he spits)

[0225] (ESTRAGON moves to centre, halts with his
back to auditorium)

ESTRAGON

[0226] Charming spot. [0227] (he turns, advances to front, halts
facing auditorium)
[0228] Inspiring prospects. [0229] (he turns
to Vladimir.)
[0230] Let's go.

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Segment 2

VLADIMIR

[0231] We can't.

ESTRAGON

[0232] Why not?

VLADIMIR

[0233] We're waiting for Godot.

ESTRAGON

[0234] Ah! [0235] (Pause) [0236] You're sure it was here?

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Segment 3

VLADIMIR

[0237] What?

ESTRAGON

[0238] That we were to wait.

VLADIMIR

[0239] He said by the tree. [0240] (they look at the tree) [0241] Do
you see any others?

ESTRAGON

[0242] What is it?

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Segment 4

VLADIMIR

[0243] It looks like a willow.

ESTRAGON

[0244] Where are the leaves?

VLADIMIR

[0245] It must be dead.

ESTRAGON

[0246] No more weeping.

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Segment 5

VLADIMIR

[0247] Perhaps it's not the season.

ESTRAGON

[0248] It looks to me more like a bush.

VLADIMIR

[0249] A shrub.

ESTRAGON

[0250] A bush.

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Segment 6

VLADIMIR

[0251] A - . [0253] What are you insinuating? [0254] That we've come
to the wrong place?

ESTRAGON

[0255] He should be here.

VLADIMIR

[0256] He didn't say for sure he'd come.

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Segment 7

ESTRAGON

[0257] And if he doesn't come?

VLADIMIR

[0258] We'll come back to-morrow.

ESTRAGON

[0259] And then the day after to-morrow.

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