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

MS-HRC-DA-145-1

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Segment 1

[3333] (They get him up again. [3334] POZZO sags between
them, his arms round their necks)

VLADIMIR
(Contd.)

[3335] He must get used to being erect again). [3336] (to Pozzo)
[3337] Feeling better?

POZZO

[3338] Who are you?

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Segment 2

VLADIMIR

[3339] Do you not recognize us?

POZZO

[3340] I am blind.

[3341] (Silence)

ESTRAGON

[3342] Perhaps he can see into the future.

VLADIMIR

[3343] (To Pozzo) [3344] Since when?

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Segment 3

POZZO

[3345] I used to have wonderful sight - but are you
friends?

ESTRAGON

[3346] (Laughing noisily) [3347] He wants to know if we are
friends!

VLADIMIR

[3348] No, he means friends of his.

ESTRAGON

[3349] Well?

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Segment 4

VLADIMIR

[3350] We've proved we are, by helping him.

ESTRAGON

[3351] Exactly. [3352] Would we have helped him if we weren't
his friends?

VLADIMIR

[3353] Possibly.

ESTRAGON

[3354] True.

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Segment 5

VLADIMIR

[3355] Don't let's quibble about that now.

POZZO

[3356] You are not highwaymen?

ESTRAGON

[3357] Highwaymen! [3358] Do we look like highwaymen?

VLADIMIR

[3359] Damn it cann't you see the [3360] the man is blind.

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Segment 6

ESTRAGON

[3361] Damn it, [3362] so he is. [3363] (pause) [3364] Or so he says.

POZZO

[3365] Don't leave me!

VLADIMIR

[3366] No question of it.

ESTRAGON

[3367] For the moment.

POZZO

[3368] What time is it?

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