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

MS-HRC-DA-145-1

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Segment 1

POZZO

[1560] (Impatient) [1561] Well?

ESTRAGON

[1562] Why doesn't he put down his bags?

VLADIMIR

[1563] Rubbish!

POZZO

[1564] Are you sure?

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Segment 2

VLADIMIR

[1565] Damn it haven't you already told us!

POZZO

[1566] I've already told you?

ESTRAGON

[1567] He's already told you?

VLADIMIR

[1568] Anyway he has put them down.

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Segment 3

ESTRAGON

[1569] (Glance at Lucky) [1570] So he has. [1571] And what of it?

VLADIMIR

[1572] Since he has put down his bags it is impossible
that we should have asked why he does not do so.

POZZO

[1573] Well Stoutly reasoned!

ESTRAGON

[1574] And why has he put them down.

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Segment 4

POZZO

[1575] Answer us that.

VLADIMIR

[1576] In order to dance.

ESTRAGON

[1577] True.

POZZO

[1579] True.

[1580] (Silence)

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Segment 5

ESTRAGON

[1635] Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's
awful!

VLADIMIR

[1636] (To Pozzo) [1637] Tell him to think.

POZZO

[1638] Give him his hat.

VLADIMIR

[1639] His hat?

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Segment 6

POZZO

[1640] He can't think without his hat.

VLADIMIR

[1641] (To Estragon) [1642] Give him his hat.

ESTRAGON

[1643] Me! [1644] After what he did to me! [1645] Never!

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Segment 7

VLADIMIR

[1646] I'll give it to him myself. [1647] (he does not move)

ESTRAGON

[1648] Let Tell him [] to go and fetch it.

POZZO

[1649] It's better to give it to him.

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