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

MS-HRC-DA-145-1

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Segment 1

ESTRAGON)
VLADIMIR)

[3263] Pozzo! [3264] Pozzo!

VLADIMIR

[3265] He moved.

ESTRAGON

[3266] Are you sure his name is Pozzo?

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Segment 2

VLADIMIR

[3267] (Alarmed) [3268] Mr. Pozzo! [3269] Come back! [3270] We won't touch
you!

[3271] (Silence)

ESTRAGON

[3272] We might try him with other names.

VLADIMIR

[3273] I'm afraid he's dying.

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Segment 3

ESTRAGON

[3274] It'd be amusing.

VLADIMIR

[3275] What'd be amusing?

ESTRAGON

[3276] To try him with other names, one after the other.
[3277] That'd pass the time. [3278] And we'd be bound to hit
on the right one sooner or later.

VLADIMIR

[3279] I tell you his name is Pozzo.

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Segment 4

ESTRAGON

[3280] We'll soon see. [3282] (he reflects) [3283] Abel! [3284] Abel!

POZZO

[3285] Help!

ESTRAGON

[3286] Got it in one!

VLADIMIR

[3287] I begin to weary of this motif.

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Segment 5

ESTRAGON

[3288] Perhaps the other is called Cain. [3289] (he calls)
[3290] Cain! [3291] Cain!

POZZO

[3292] Help!

ESTRAGON

[3293] He's all mankind.

[3294] (Silence)

[3295] Look at the little cloud.

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Segment 6

VLADIMIR

[3296] (Raising his eyes) [3297] Where?

ESTRAGON

[3298] There. In the zenith.

VLADIMIR

[3299] Well? [3300] (pause) [3301] What is there so wonderful
about it?

[3302] (Silence)

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