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

MS-HRC-DA-145-1

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Segment 1

VLADIMIR
(Contd.)

[3407] praeteritorum bonorum - that must be unpleasant.

ESTRAGON

[3407|001] We wouldn't know.

VLADIMIR

[3407|002] (To Pozzo) [3409] And it came on you all of a sudden?

POZZO

[3410] Quite Wonderful! .

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Segment 2

VLADIMIR

[3411] I'm asking you if it came on you all of a sudden.

POZZO

[3412] I woke up one fine day as blind as Fortune. [3413] (pause)
[3414] Sometimes I wonder if I'm not still asleep.

VLADIMIR

[3415] When was that?

POZZO

[3416] I don't know.

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Segment 3

VLADIMIR

[3417] But no later than yesterday -

POZZO

[3418] Don't question me. [3419] The blind have no notion of
time.
[3421] The things of time are hidden from them too.

VLADIMIR

[3422] Well just fancy that! [3423] I could have sworn it was
the opposite.

ESTRAGON

[3424] I'm going.

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Segment 4

POZZO

[3425] Where are we?

VLADIMIR

[3426] I couldn't tell you.

POZZO

[3427] It isn't by any chance the place known as the Board.

VLADIMIR

[3428] Never heard of it.

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Segment 5

POZZO

[3429] What is it like?

VLADIMIR

[3430] (Looking round) [3431] You couldn't describe it. [3432] It's
like nothing.
[3433] There's nothing. [3434] There's a tree.

POZZO

[3435] Then it's not the Board.

ESTRAGON

[3436] (Sagging) [3437] Some diversion!

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Segment 6

POZZO

[3438] Where is my menial?

VLADIMIR

[3439] He's about somewhere.

POZZO

[3440] Why doesn't he answer when I call?

VLADIMIR

[3441] I don't know. [3442] He seems to be sleeping. [3443] Perhaps
he's dead.

POZZO

[3444] What happened exactly?

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