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

MS-HRC-DA-145-1

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Segment 1

ESTRAGON

[3168] I'm going. [3169] (Pause. [3170] Louder) [3171] I'm going.

VLADIMIR

[3172] Well I suppose in the end I'll get up under my
own steam.
[3173] (he tries, fails) [3174] In the fullness of
time.

ESTRAGON

[3175] What's the matter with you?

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Segment 2

VLADIMIR

[3176] Take yourself off Go to hell.

ESTRAGON

[3177] Are you staying there?

VLADIMIR

[3178] For the time being.

ESTRAGON

[3179] Come on, get up, you'll catch a chill.

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Segment 3

VLADIMIR

[3180] Don't worry about me.

ESTRAGON

[3181] Come on, Didi, don't be pig-headed. [3182] (he stretches
out his hand which VLADIMIR makes haste to seize)

VLADIMIR

[3184] Pull!

[3185] (ESTRAGON pulls, stumbles, falls. [3186] Long
silence)

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Segment 4

POZZO

[3187] Help!

VLADIMIR

[3188] We've arrived.

POZZO

[3189] Who are you.

VLADIMIR

[3190] We are men.

[3191] (Silence)

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Segment 5

ESTRAGON

[3192] Sweet mother earth!

VLADIMIR

[3193] Can you get up?

ESTRAGON

[3194] I don't know.

VLADIMIR

[3195] Try.

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Segment 6

ESTRAGON

[3196] Not now, not now.

[3197] (Silence)

POZZO

[3198] What's happened?

VLADIMIR

[3199] (Violently) [3200] Will you stop it, you! [3201] Pest! [3202] He
thinks of nothing but himself!

ESTRAGON

[3203] What about a little snooze?

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