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

MS-HRC-DA-145-1

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Segment 1

VLADIMIR

[2075] Are you mad? [2076] We must find a shelter TAKE COVER. [2077] (he takes
Estragon by the arm)
[2078] Come on. [2079] (he draws Estragon
after him.
[2080] ESTRAGON yields, then resists. [2081] They
halt)

ESTRAGON

[2082] (Looking at the tree)[2083] Pity we haven't got a bit
of rope.

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Segment 2

VLADIMIR

[2084] Come on. [2085] It's getting cold. [2086] (he draws him
after him.
[2087] As before)

ESTRAGON

[2088] Remind me to bring a bit rope to-morrow.

VLADIMIR

[2089] Yes yes. [2090] Come on. [2091] (he draws him after him. [2092] As
before)

ESTRAGON

[2093] How long have we been together all the time now?

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Segment 3

VLADIMIR

[2094] I don't know. stand break [2095] Fifty years perhaps.

ESTRAGON

[2096] Do you remember the day I threw myself into the
Rhone?

VLADIMIR

[2097] We were grape harvesting.

ESTRAGON

[2098] You fished me out.

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Segment 4

VLADIMIR

[2099] That's all dead and buried.

ESTRAGON

[2100] My clothes dried in the sun.

VLADIMIR

[2101] There's no good harking back on that. [2102] Come on.
[2102|001] (he draws him after him. [2103] As before)

ESTRAGON

[2104] Wait.

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Segment 5

VLADIMIR

[2105] I'm cold!

ESTRAGON

[2105|001] Wait! [2105|002] (he moves away from Vladimir) [2106] I wonder if
we wouldn't have been better off alone, each one
for himself.
[2107] (he crosses the stage and sits down
on the mound)
[2108] We weren't made for the same road.

VLADIMIR

[2109] (Without anger) [2110] It's not certain.

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Segment 6

ESTRAGON

[2111] No, nothing is certain.

[2111|001] (VLADIMIR slowly crosses the stage and sits
down beside Estragon)
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to him
hand on
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Sit xxx stump

VLADIMIR

[2112] We can still part, if you think it would be better.

ESTRAGON

[2113] It's too late now.

[2114] (Silence)

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