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

MS-HRC-DA-145-1

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Segment 1

ESTRAGON

[3445] Exactly!

VLADIMIR

[3446] The two of you slipped. [3446|001] (pause) [3446|002] And fell.

POZZO

[3447] Go and see is he hurt.

VLADIMIR

[3448] But we can't leave you.

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Segment 2

POZZO

[3449] You needn't both go.

VLADIMIR

[3450] (To Estragon) [3451] You go.

ESTRAGON

[3451|001] After what he did to me? [3451|002] Never!

POZZO

[3452] Yes yes, let your friend go, [3453] he stinks so. [3479] What is he
waiting for?

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Segment 3

VLADIMIR

[3488] What exactly should he do?

POZZO

[3489] Well to begin with he should pull on the rope,
as hard as he likes so long as he doesn't strangle
him.
[3490] He usually responds to that. [3491] If not he should
give him a taste of his boot, in the face and the
guts as far as possible.

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Segment 4

VLADIMIR

[3492] (To Estragon) [3493] You see, you've nothing to be afraid
of.
[3494] It's even an opportunity to revenge yourself.

ESTRAGON

[3495] And if he defends himself?

POZZO

[3496] No no, he never defends himself.

VLADIMIR

[3497] I'll come flying to the rescue.

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Segment 5

ESTRAGON

[3498] Don't take your eyes off me. [3499] (he goes towards
Lucky)

VLADIMIR

[3500] Make sure he's alive before you start. [3501] No point
in exerting yourself if he's dead.

ESTRAGON

[3502] (Bending over Lucky) [3503] He's breathing.

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Segment 6

VLADIMIR

[3504] Then let him have it.

[3505] (With sudden fury ESTRAGON starts kicking
Lucky, hurling abuse at him as he does so.

[3506] But he hurts his foot and moves away, limping
and groaning.
[3507] LUCKY stirs)

ESTRAGON

[3509] Oh the brute! [3510] (he sits down on the mound and
tries to take off his boots.
[3511] But he soon desists
and disposes himself for sleep, his arms on his
knees and his head on his arms)

POZZO

[3512] What's gone wrong now?

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