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

MS-HRC-DA-145-1

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Segment 1

ESTRAGON

[2201] That finished me. [2202] I said to myself, He's all alone,
he thinks I'm gone for ever, and he sings.

VLADIMIR

[2203] One isn't master of one's moods. [2204] All day I've
felt in great form.
[2205] (pause) [2206] I didn't get up in
the night, not once!

ESTRAGON

[2207] (Sadly) [2208] You see, you piss better when I'm not there.

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Segment 2

VLADIMIR

[2209] I missed you...and at the same time I was content HAPPY.
[2210] Isn't that a queer thing?

ESTRAGON

[2211] (Shocked) [2212] content HAPPY?

VLADIMIR

[2214] Perhaps it's not the right word.

ESTRAGON

[2215] And now?

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Segment 3

VLADIMIR

[2217] Now?... [2218] (joyous) Hand on xxx [2219] There you are again... (indifferent)
There we are again...
[2219|001] (gloomy) [2220] There I am again.

ESTRAGON

[2221] You see, you feel worse when I'm with you. [2222] I
feel better alone too.

VLADIMIR

[2223] (Piqued) [2224] Then why do you come crawling back?

ESTRAGON

[2225] I don't know.

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Segment 4

VLADIMIR

[2226] No, but I do. [2227] It's because you don't know how to
take care of yourself.
[2228] I wouldn't have let them
beat you.

ESTRAGON

[2229] You couldn't have stopped them.

VLADIMIR

[2230] Why not?

ESTRAGON

[2231] There was WERE ten of them.

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Segment 5

VLADIMIR

[2232] No, I mean before they beat you. I would have
stopped you from doing whatever it was you were
doing.

ESTRAGON

[2233] I wasn't doing anything.

VLADIMIR

[2234] Then why did they beat you?

ESTRAGON

[2235] I don't know.

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Segment 6

VLADIMIR

[2236] Ah no, Gogo, the truth is there are things escape
you that don't escape me.
[2237] You must feel it yourself.

ESTRAGON

[2238] I tell you I wasn't doing anything.

VLADIMIR

[2239] Perhaps you weren't. [2240] But it's the way of doing it
that counts, the way of doing it, if you want to

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