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

MS-HRC-DA-145-1

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Segment 1

VLADIMIR

[1871|002] Changed.

ESTRAGON

[1872] Very likely. [1873] They all change. Only we can't.

VLADIMIR

[1874] Likely! [1875] It's certain. [1876] Didn't you see them?

ESTRAGON

[1877] I suppose I did. [1878] But I don't know them.

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Segment 2

VLADIMIR

[1879] Yes you do know them.

ESTRAGON

[1880] No I don't know them.

VLADIMIR

[1881] We know them, I tell you. [1882] You forget everything.
[1883] (pause. [1883|001] To himself) [1884] Unless they're not the same...

ESTRAGON

[1885] Why didn't they recognize us then?

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Segment 3

VLADIMIR

[1886] That means nothing. [1887] I too pretended not to
recognize them.
[1888] And then nobody ever recognizes
us.

ESTRAGON

[1889] Forget it. [1890] What we need - [1891] Ow!

[1892] (Vladimir does not react)

[1893] Ow!

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Segment 4

VLADIMIR

[1893|001] (To himself) [1894] Unless they're not the same...

ESTRAGON

[1895] Didi! [1896] It's the other foot! [1897] (he goes hobbling
towards the mound)

VLADIMIR

[1897|001] Unless they're not the same...

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Segment 5

BOY

[1897|002] (Off) [1898] Mister!

[1899] (ESTRAGON halts. [1900] Both look towards the
voice)

ESTRAGON

[1901] Off we go again.

VLADIMIR

[1902] Approach, my child.

[1903] (Enter BOY, timidly. [1904] He halts)

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Segment 6

BOY

[1905] Mister Albert...?

VLADIMIR

[1906] Yes.

ESTRAGON

[1907] What do you want?

VLADIMIR

[1908] Approach.

[1909] (The Boy does not move)

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