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

MS-HRC-DA-145-1

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Segment 1

VLADIMIR

[1950] The two big men.

BOY

[1951] Yes Sir.

VLADIMIR

[1952] Do you know them?

BOY

[1953] No Sir.

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Segment 2

VLADIMIR

[1954] Are you a native of these parts?

[1954] (Silence)

[1954] Do you belong to these parts?

BOY

[1955] Yes Sir.

ESTRAGON

[1956] That's all a pack of lies. [1957] (shaking the boy by
the arm)
[1958] Tell us the truth.

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Segment 3

BOY

[1959] (Trembling) [1960] But it is the truth, Sir!

VLADIMIR

[1961] Will you let him alone! [1962] What's the matter with
you?

[1963] (ESTRAGON releases the Boy, moves away,
covering his face with his hands.
[1964] VLADIMIR
and the BOY observe him.
[1965] ESTRAGON drops
his hands. His face is convulsed)

[1966] What's the matter with you?

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Segment 4

ESTRAGON

[1967] I'm unhappy.

VLADIMIR

[1968] Not possible really! [1969] Since when?

ESTRAGON

[1970] I'd forgotten.

VLADIMIR

[1971] Extraordinary the tricks that memory plays!

[1972] (ESTRAGON tries to speak, renounces, limps
to his place, sits down and begins to take
off his boot.
[1973] To Boy)

[1974] Well?

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Segment 5

BOY

[1975] Mr. Godot -

VLADIMIR

[1977] I've seen you before, haven't I?

BOY

[1978] I don't know, Sir.

VLADIMIR

[1979] You don't know me?

BOY

[1980] No Sir.

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