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

MS-HRC-DA-145-1

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Segment 1

ESTRAGON

[2536] I don't know.

VLADIMIR

[2537] Why?

ESTRAGON

[2537|001] (Exasperated) [2538] I don't know why I don't know!

VLADIMIR

[2539] No, I mean why did you throw them away?

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Segment 2

ESTRAGON

[2539|002] (Exasperated) [2540] Because they were hurting me!

VLADIMIR

[2541] (Triumphantly, pointing to the boots) [2542] There they
are!

[2543] (ESTRAGON looks at the boots)

[2544] At the very spot where you left them yesterday!

[2545] (ESTRAGON goes towards the boots, inspects
them closely)

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Segment 3

ESTRAGON

[2546] They're not mine.

VLADIMIR

[2546|001] (Stupefied) [2547] Not yours! X DC

ESTRAGON

[2548] Mine were black. [2549] These are brown.

VLADIMIR

[2550] You're sure yours were black?

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Segment 4

ESTRAGON

[2551] Well they were a kind of grey anyway.

VLADIMIR

[2552] And these are brown? [2553] Show.

ESTRAGON

[2554] (Picking up a boot) [2555] Well they're a kind of green.

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Segment 5

VLADIMIR

[2556] (Advancing) [2557] Show.

[2558] (ESTRAGON hands him the boot. [2559] VLADIMIR
inspects it, throws it down angrily)

[2560] Well of all the -

ESTRAGON

[2561] You see, all that's a lot of -bloody -.

VLADIMIR

[2561|001] Ah! [2562] I see what it is. [2563] Yes, I see what's happened.

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Segment 6

ESTRAGON

[2564] All that's a lot of -bloody -

VLADIMIR

[2565] It's elementary. [2566] Someone came and took yours and
left you his.

ESTRAGON

[2567] Why?

VLADIMIR

[2568] His were too tight for him, [2569] so he took yours.

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