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

MS-HRC-DA-145-1

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Segment 1

ESTRAGON
(Contd.)

[2314] Macon country?

VLADIMIR

[2315] But you were there yourself, in the Macon country.

ESTRAGON

[2316] No I was never in the Macon country. [2317] I've puked
my puke of a life away here, I tell you!
[2318] Here!
[2319] In the Cackon country!

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Segment 2

VLADIMIR

[2320] But we were there together, I could swear to it!
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[2321] Picking grapes for a man called... (he snaps his
fingers) ...can't think of the name of the man, at
a place called... (snaps his fingers) ...can't
think of the name of the place, do you not remember?

ESTRAGON

[2322] (Calmer) [2323] It's possible. [2324] I didn't notice anything.

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Segment 3

VLADIMIR

[2325] But down there everything is red!

ESTRAGON

[2326] (Exasperated) [2327] I didn't notice anything, I tell you!

[2328] (Silence. [2329] VLADIMIR sighs deeply) X stump
SIT

VLADIMIR

[2330] You're a hard man to get on with, Gogo.

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Segment 4

ESTRAGON

[2331] It would be better if we parted.

VLADIMIR

[2332] You always say that, [2333] and you always come crawling
back.

ESTRAGON

[2335] The best would be to kill me, like the other.

VLADIMIR

[2336] What other? [2337] (pause) [2338] What other?

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Segment 5

ESTRAGON

[2339] Like billions of others.

VLADIMIR

[2340] (Sententious) [2341] To every man his little cross. [2342] (he
sighs)
[2343] Till he dies. (afterthought) And is
forgotten.

ESTRAGON

[2344] In the meantime let's try and converse calmly,
since we're incapable of remaining silent.

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Segment 6

VLADIMIR

[2345] You're right, we're inexhaustible.

ESTRAGON

[2346] It's so we won't think.

VLADIMIR

[2347] We have that excuse.

ESTRAGON

[2348] It's so we won't hear.

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Segment 7

VLADIMIR

[2349] We have our reasons.

ESTRAGON

[2350] All the dead voices.

VLADIMIR

[2351] They make a noise like wings.

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