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

MS-HRC-DA-145-1

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Segment 1

ESTRAGON

[3607] (Wild gestures, incoherent words. [3608] Finally)
[3609] Why will you never let me sleep?

VLADIMIR

[3610] I felt lonely. X to barrel

ESTRAGON

[3611] I was dreaming I was happy.

VLADIMIR

[3612] That passed the time.

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Segment 2

ESTRAGON

[3613] I was dreaming that -

VLADIMIR

[3614] Don't tell me! [3615] (silence) Sit [3616] I wonder is he really
blind.

ESTRAGON

[3617] Who?

VLADIMIR

[3620] Pozzo.

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Segment 3

ESTRAGON

[3621] Blind?

VLADIMIR

[3622] He told us he was blind?

ESTRAGON

[3623] Well what about it?

VLADIMIR

[3624] It seemed to me he could see us.

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Segment 4

ESTRAGON

[3625] You dreamt it. [3626] (pause) [3627] Let's go. [3628] We can't. [3629] Ah!
[3630] (pause) [3631] Are you sure it wasn't him?

VLADIMIR

[3632] Who?

ESTRAGON

[3633] Godot.

VLADIMIR

[3634] But who?

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Segment 5

ESTRAGON

[3635] Pozzo.

VLADIMIR

[3636] Not at all! [3637] Not at all! [3638] (pause) [3639] Not at all.

ESTRAGON

[3640] I suppose I might as well get up. [3641] (he gets up
painfully)
[3642] Ow! [3642|001] Didi!

VLADIMIR

[3643] I don't know what to think any more.

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Segment 6

ESTRAGON

[3644] My feet! [3645] (he sits down, tries to take off his
boots)
[3646] Help me!

VLADIMIR

[3647] Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? [3648] Am I
sleeping now?
[3649] To-morrow, when I wake, or think I
do, what shall I say of to-day?
[3650] That with Estragon my friend,
at this place, until the fall of night, I waited
for Godot?
[3651] That Pozzo passed, with his carrier,
and talked to us?
[3652] Probably. [3653] But in all that what
truth will there be?

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