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

MS-HRC-DA-145-1

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Segment 1

ESTRAGON

[2410] Then what are we complaining about?

VLADIMIR

[2411] Thinking is not the worst.

ESTRAGON

[2412] Perhaps not. But at least there's that.

VLADIMIR

[2413] That what?

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Segment 2

ESTRAGON

[2414] That's the idea, let's ask each other questions.

VLADIMIR

[2415] What do you mean, at least there's that?

ESTRAGON

[2416] That much less. MISERY

VLADIMIR

[2417] True.

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Segment 3

ESTRAGON

[2418] Well? [2419] If we gave thanks for our mercies?

VLADIMIR

[2420] What is terrible is to have thought.

ESTRAGON

[2421] But did that ever happen to us?

VLADIMIR

[2422] Where are all these corpses from?

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Segment 4

ESTRAGON

[2423] These skeletons.

VLADIMIR

[2424] Tell me that.

ESTRAGON

[2425] True.

VLADIMIR

[2426] We must have thought a little.

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Segment 5

ESTRAGON

[2427] At the very beginning.

VLADIMIR

[2428] A charnel-house! A charnel-house!

ESTRAGON

[2429] You don't have to look.

VLADIMIR

[2430] You can't help looking.

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Segment 6

ESTRAGON

[2431] True.

VLADIMIR

[2432] Try as one may.

ESTRAGON

[2433] I beg your pardon?

VLADIMIR

[2434] Try as one may.

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Segment 7

ESTRAGON

[2435] We should turn resolutely towards Nature.

VLADIMIR

[2436] We've tried that.

ESTRAGON

[2437] True.

VLADIMIR

[2438] Oh it's not the worst, I know.

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