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

MS-HRC-DA-145-1

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Segment 1

ESTRAGON

[0296] Or Thursday?

VLADIMIR

[0297] What'll we do?

ESTRAGON

[0298] If he came yesterday and we weren't here you may
be sure he won't come again to-day.

VLADIMIR

[0299] But you say we were here yesterday. X to him LS.

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Segment 2

ESTRAGON

[0300] I may be mistaken. [0301] (pause) [0302] Let's stop talking for
a minute, do you mind?

VLADIMIR

[0303] (Feebly) [0304] All right.

[0305] (ESTRAGON sits down on the mound. Face out [0306] VLADIMIR
paces agitatedly up and down, hatling from
time to time to gaze into distance off. sLaughing

[0307] ESTRAGON falls asleep. [0308] VLADIMIR halts
before Estragon)
Break slightly R

X to his R [0309] Gogo!..[0311]Gogo!..[0313]GOGO! x xx back

[0314] (ESTRAGON wakes with a start)

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Segment 3

ESTRAGON

[0315] (Restored to the horror of his situation) [0316] I was
asleep!
[0317] (reproachfully) [0318] Why will you never let
me sleep?

VLADIMIR

[0319] I felt lonely. X sit barrel

ESTRAGON

[0320] I had a dream.

VLADIMIR

[0321] Don't tell me!

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Segment 4

ESTRAGON

[0322] I dreamt that -

VLADIMIR

[0323] DON'T TELL ME!

ESTRAGON

[0324] (Gesture towards the universe) [0325] This one is enough
for you?
[0326] (silence) [0327] It's not nice of you, Didi.
[0328] Who am I to tell my private nightmares to if I
can't tell them to you?

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Segment 5

VLADIMIR

[0329] Let them remain private. [0330] You know I can't bear
that.

ESTRAGON

[0331] (Coldly) [0332] There are times when I wonder if it
wouldn't be better for us to part.

VLADIMIR

[0333] You wouldn't go far.

ESTRAGON

[0334] That would be too bad, really too bad. [0335] (pause)
[0336] Wouldn't it, Didi, be really too bad? [0337] (pause)
[0338] When you think of the beauty of the way. [0339] (pause)
[0340] And the goodness of the wayfarers. [0341] (pause. [0342] Wheedling)

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