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

MS-HRC-DA-145-1

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Segment 1

ESTRAGON

[2464] I'm tired.

VLADIMIR

[2465] Look at it.

[2466] (ESTRAGON looks at the tree)

ESTRAGON

[2467] I see nothing.

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Segment 2

VLADIMIR

[2468] But yesterday evening it was all black and bare.
[2469] To-day AND NOW it's covered with leaves.

ESTRAGON

[2470] Leaves?

VLADIMIR

[2471] In a single night.

ESTRAGON

[2472] It must be the Spring.

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Segment 3

VLADIMIR

[2473] But in a single night!

ESTRAGON

[2474] I tell you we weren't here yesterday. [2475] Another of
your nightmares.

VLADIMIR

X to him [2476] And where were we yesterday evening according to
you?
turn

ESTRAGON

[2477] How do I know? [2479] In another compartment. [2480] There's
no lack of void.

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Segment 4

VLADIMIR

[2481] (Sure of himself) [2482] Good. [2483] We weren't here yesterday
evening.
[2484] Now what did we do yesterday evening?

ESTRAGON

[2485] Do?

VLADIMIR

[2486] Try and remember.

ESTRAGON

[2487] Do...I suppose we talked blathered..

VLADIMIR

[2488] (Controlling himself) [2489] About what? Sit st.

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Segment 5

ESTRAGON

[2490] Oh...this and that, I suppose, nothing in particular.
[2491] (with assurance) [2492] Yes, now I remember, yesterday
evening we spent talking about nothing in particular.

[2493] That's been going on now for half a century.

VLADIMIR

[2494] You don't remember any fact, any circumstance?

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Segment 6

ESTRAGON

[2495] (Weary) [2496] Don't torment me, Didi.

VLADIMIR

[2497] The sun. [2498] The moon. [2499] Do you not remember?

ESTRAGON

[2500] They must have been there, as usual.

VLADIMIR

[2501] You didn't notice anything out of the ordinary?

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