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

MS-HRC-DA-145-1

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Segment 1

ESTRAGON

[2381] What do we do now?

VLADIMIR

[2382] Wait for Godot.

ESTRAGON

[2383] Ah!

[2384] (Silence)

VLADIMIR

[2385] This is awful!

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Segment 2

ESTRAGON

[2386] Sing something.

VLADIMIR

[2387] No no! [2388] (he ponders) [2389] We could start all over again
perhaps.

ESTRAGON

[2390] That should be easy.

VLADIMIR

[2391] It's the start that's difficult.

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Segment 3

ESTRAGON

[2392] You can start from anything.

VLADIMIR

[2393] Yes, but you have to decide.

ESTRAGON

[2394] True.

[2395] (Silence)

VLADIMIR

[2396] Help me!

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Segment 4

ESTRAGON

[2397] I'm trying.

[2398] (Silence)

VLADIMIR

[2399] When you SEEK you hear.

ESTRAGON

[2400] You do.

VLADIMIR

[2401] That prevents you from finding.

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Segment 5

ESTRAGON

[2402] It does.

VLADIMIR

[2403] That prevents you from thinking.

ESTRAGON

[2404] You think all the same.

VLADIMIR

[2405] No no, it's impossible.

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Segment 6

ESTRAGON

[2406] That's the idea, let's contradict each other.

VLADIMIR

[2407] Impossible.

ESTRAGON

[2408] You think so?

VLADIMIR

[2409] We're in no danger of ever thinking any more.

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