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

MS-HRC-DA-145-1

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Segment 1

[0509] (They listen. [0510] ESTRAGON loses his balance,
almost falls.
[0511] He clutches the arm of
Vladimir who totters.
[0512] They listen,
huddled together)

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Segment 2

VLADIMIR
(Contd.)

[0513] Nor I.

[0514] (Sighs of relief. [0515] They relax [0516] and separate)

ESTRAGON

[0517] You gave me a fright.

VLADIMIR

[0518] I thought it was he.

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Segment 3

ESTRAGON

[0519] Who?

VLADIMIR

[0520] Godot.

ESTRAGON

[0521] Pah! [0522] The wind in the reeds.

VLADIMIR

[0523] I could have sworn I heard shouts.

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Segment 4

ESTRAGON

[0524] And why would he shout?

VLADIMIR

[0525] At his horse.

[0526] (Silence) Pause

ESTRAGON

[0536] I'm hungry.

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Segment 5

VLADIMIR

[0537] Do you want a carrot?

ESTRAGON

[0538] Is that all there is?

VLADIMIR

[0539] I might have some turnips.

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Segment 6

ESTRAGON

[0540] Give me a carrot.

X to him [0541] (VLADIMIR rummages in his pockets, takes out
a turnip and gives it to ESTRAGON
[0543] who takes
a bite out of it.
[0544] Angrily)

[0545] It's a turnip!

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Segment 7

VLADIMIR

[0546] Oh pardon! [0547] I could have sworn it was a carrot.
[0548] (he rummages again in his pockets, finds nothing
but turnips)
[0549] All that's turnips. [0550] (he rummages)
[0551] You must have eaten the last. [0552] (he rummages) [0553] Wait,
I have it.
[0554] (he brings out a carrot and gives it
to Estragon)
[0555] There, dear fellow.

[0556] (ESTRAGON wipes it on his sleeve and begins
to eat it)

[0559] Make it last, that's the end of them. X to him shrugs.

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