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

MS-HRC-DA-145-1

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Segment 1

POZZO

[0641] Be careful! [0642] He's wicked.

[0643] (VLADIMIR and ESTRAGON turn towards Pozzo)
[0644] With strangers.

ESTRAGON

[0645] (Undertone)[0646] Is that him? X with Est to P's R.

VLADIMIR

[0647] Who?

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Segment 2

ESTRAGON

[0647|001] (Trying to remember the name) [0648] Er...

VLADIMIR

[0649] Godot?

ESTRAGON

[0650] Yes.

POZZO

[0651] I present myself: Pozzo.

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Segment 3

VLADIMIR

[0651|001] (To Estragon) [0652] Not at all!

ESTRAGON

[0653] He said Godot.

VLADIMIR

[0654] Not at all!

ESTRAGON

[0655] (Timidly, to Pozzo) [0656] You're not Mr. Godot, Sir? [Break] to
R

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Segment 4

POZZO

[0657] (Terrifying voice) [0658] I am Pozzo! [0659] (silence) [0660] Does
that name mean nothing to you?
[0661] (silence) [0662] I say
does that name mean nothing to you?

[0663] (VLADIMIR and ESTRAGON look at each other
questioningly)

ESTRAGON

[0664] (Pretending to search) [0665] Bozzo...Bozzo...

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Segment 5

VLADIMIR

[0666] (Ditto) [0667] Pozzo...

POZZO

[0668] PPPOZZZO!

ESTRAGON

[0669] Ah! [0670] Pozzo...let me see...Pozzo...

VLADIMIR

[0671] Is it Pozzo or Bozzo?

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Segment 6

ESTRAGON

[0672] Pozzo...no...I'm afraid I...no...I don't seem to...

[0676] (POZZO advances threateningly) On

VLADIMIR

[0673] (Conciliating) [0674] I once knew a family called Gozzo.
[0675] The mother embroidered doilies HAD WARTS.

ESTRAGON

[0677] (Hastily) [0678] We're not from these parts, Sir.

POZZO

[0679] (Halting) [0680] You are human beings nevertheless. [0681] (he
puts on his spectacles)
[0682] As far as one can see.
[0683] (he takes off his spectacles) [0684] Of the same species

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