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

MS-HRC-DA-145-1

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Segment 1

POZZO
(Contd.)

[0684] as myself. [0685] (he bursts into an enormous laugh)
[0686] Of the same species as Pozzo! [0687] Made in God's image!

VLADIMIR

[0688] Well you see -

POZZO

[0689] (Peremptory) [0690] Who is Godot?

ESTRAGON

[0691] Godot?

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Segment 2

POZZO

[0692] You took me for Godot.

VLADIMIR

[0693] Oh no, Sir, not for an instant, Sir.

POZZO

[0694] Who is he?

VLADIMIR

[0695] Oh he's a...he's a kind of acquaintance.

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Segment 3

ESTRAGON

[0696] Nothing of the kind, we hardly know him.

VLADIMIR

[0697] True...we don't know him very well...but all the
same...

ESTRAGON

[0698] Personally I wouldn't even know him if I saw him.

POZZO

[0699] You took me for him.

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Segment 4

ESTRAGON

[0699|001] (Recoiling before Pozzo) [0700] That's to say...you
understand...the dusk...the strain...waiting...I
confess...I imagined...for a second...

POZZO

[0702] Waiting? [0703] So you were waiting for him?

VLADIMIR

[0704] Well you see -

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Segment 5

POZZO

[0705] Here? [0706] On my land?

VLADIMIR

[0707] We didn't intend any harm.

ESTRAGON

[0708] We meant well.

POZZO

[0709] The road is free to all.

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Segment 6

VLADIMIR

[0710] That's how we looked at it. [place = margin right] Upstage below stump

POZZO

[0711] It's a disgrace. But there you are.

ESTRAGON

[0712] Nothing we can do about it.

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Segment 7

POZZO

[0713] (With magnanimous gesture) [0714] Let's say no more about
it.
[0715] (he jerks the rope) [0716] Up pig! [0717] (pause) [0718] Every
time he drops he falls asleep.
[0719] (jerks the rope)
[0720] Up hog! [0721] (noise of Lucky getting up and picking
up his baggage.
[0722] POZZO jerks the rope) [0723] Back!
[0724] (Enter LUCKY backwards) [0725] Stop! [0726] (LUCKY stops)
[0727] Turn! [0728] (LUCKY turns. [0729] To Vladimir and Estragon,

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