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

MS-HRC-DA-145-1

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Segment 1

ESTRAGON

[1422] Oh tray bong, tray tray tray bong.

POZZO

[1423] (Fervently) [1424] Bless you, gentlemen, bless you! [1425] (pause)
[1426] I have such need of encouragement! [1427] (pause) [1428] I
weakened a little towards the end,
[1429] you didn't
notice?

VLADIMIR

[1430] Oh perhaps just a teeny weeny little bit.

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Segment 2

ESTRAGON

[1431] I thought it was intentional.

POZZO

[1432] You see my memory is deficient defective.

[1433] (Silence)

ESTRAGON

[1434] In the meantime, nothing happens.

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Segment 3

POZZO

[1436] You find it tedious?

VLADIMIR

[1437] Somewhat.

POZZO

[1438] (To Estragon) [1439] And you, Sir?

ESTRAGON

[1440] I've enjoyed myself more been better entertained.

[1441] (Silence. [1442] POZZO struggles inwardly)

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Segment 4

POZZO

[1443] Gentlemen, you have been...polite civil to me.

ESTRAGON

[1444] Not at all.

VLADIMIR

[1445] What an idea!

POZZO

[1446] Yes yes, you have been correct. [1447] So that I ask
myself
[1448] is there anything I can do in my turn for
these honest fellows who are having such a dull
time.

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Segment 5

ESTRAGON

[1449] Even ten francs a shilling would be welcome.

VLADIMIR

[1450] We are not beggars!

POZZO

[1451] Is there anything I can do, that's what I ask
myself, to cheer them up.
[1452] I have given them bones,
talked to them about this and that, I have explained the
twilight, admittedly.
[1454] But is it enough, that's
what tortures me, is it enough?

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Segment 6

ESTRAGON

[1455] Even five sixpence.

VLADIMIR

[1455|001] (To Estragon, indignantly) [1456] That's enough!

ESTRAGON

[1457] I couldn't accept less.

POZZO

[1458] Is it enough? [1459] No doubt. [1460] But I am liberal. [1461] It's

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