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

MS-HRC-DA-145-1

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Segment 1

VLADIMIR

[0260] Possibly.

ESTRAGON

[0261] And so on.

VLADIMIR

[0262] The point is -

ESTRAGON

[0263] Until he comes.

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Segment 2

VLADIMIR

[0264] You're unmerciful. MERCILESS

ESTRAGON

[0265] We came here yesterday.

VLADIMIR

[0266] Ah no, there you're mistaken.

ESTRAGON

[0267] What did we do yesterday?

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Segment 3

VLADIMIR

[0268] What we did yesterday?

ESTRAGON

[0269] Yes.

VLADIMIR

[0270] Why... [0271] (angrily) [0272] Nothing is sure when you're about.

ESTRAGON

[0273] In my opinion we were here.

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Segment 4

VLADIMIR

[0274] (Looking round) [0275] You recognize the place?

ESTRAGON

[0276] I didn't say that.

VLADIMIR

[0277] Well?

ESTRAGON

[0278] That makes no difference.

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Segment 5

VLADIMIR

[0279] All the same...that tree... (turning towards the
auditorium) ...that bog.

ESTRAGON

[0280] You're sure it was this evening?

VLADIMIR

[0281] What?

ESTRAGON

[0282] That we were to wait.

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Segment 6

VLADIMIR

[0283] He said Saturday. [0284] (pause) [0285] I think.

ESTRAGON

[0286] You think.

VLADIMIR

[0287] I must have written it down MADE A NOTE OF IT. X [to] R. [0288] (he fumbles in his
pockets, bursting with miscellaneous rubbish)

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Segment 7

ESTRAGON

[0288|001] (Very insidious) [0289] But what Saturday? [0290] And is it
Saturday?
[0291] Is it not rather Sunday? [0291|001] (pause) [0292] Or
Monday?
[0292|001] (pause) [0293] Or Friday?

VLADIMIR

[0294] (Looking wildly about him, as though the date was
inscribed in the landscape)
[0295] It's not possible!

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