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

MS-HRC-DA-145-1

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Segment 1

[2603] (Silence) [Stay L in]

VLADIMIR

[2604] What about trying them?

ESTRAGON

[2605] I've tried everything.

VLADIMIR

[2606] No, I mean the boots.

ESTRAGON

[2607] Would that be a good thing?

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Segment 2

VLADIMIR

[2608] It'd pass the time.

[2609] (ESTRAGON hesitates)

[2610] I assure you, it'd be an occupation.

ESTRAGON

[2611] A relaxation.

VLADIMIR

[2612] A recreation.

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Segment 3

ESTRAGON

[2613] A relaxation.

VLADIMIR

[2614] Try.

ESTRAGON

[2615] You'll help me?

VLADIMIR

[2616] I will of course.

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Segment 4

ESTRAGON

[2617] We don't manage too badly, eh Didi, between the
two of us?

VLADIMIR

[2618] Yes yes. [2619] Come on, we'll try the left first.

ESTRAGON

[2620] We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the
impression we exist?

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Segment 5

VLADIMIR

[2621] (Impatiently) [2622] Yes yes, we're magicians. [2623] But let
us persevere in what we have resolved, before we
forget.
[2624] (he picks up a boot) [2625] Come on, give me
your foot.

[2626] (ESTRAGON raises his right foot)

[2627] The other, hog!

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Segment 6

[2628] (ESTRAGON raises the other foot)

[2629] Higher!

[2630] (Wreathed together they stagger about the
stage.
[2631] VLADIMIR succeeds finally in putting
on the boot)

[2632] Try and walk.

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