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

MS-HRC-DA-145-1

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Segment 1

[3724] and bowed. [3725] ESTRAGON wakes, takes off his
boots, gets up with them in his hands, goes
and puts them down centre front, goes towards
Vladimir, looks at him)

ESTRAGON

[3726] What's wrong with you?

VLADIMIR

[3727] There's nothing [place = inline] . wrong with me.

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Segment 2

ESTRAGON

[3728] I'm going.

VLADIMIR

[3729] So am I.

ESTRAGON

[3731] Was I long asleep?

VLADIMIR

[3732] I don't know.

[3733] (Silence)

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Segment 3

ESTRAGON

[3734] Where shall we go?

VLADIMIR

[3735] Not far.

ESTRAGON

[3736] Oh yes, let's go far away from here.

VLADIMIR

[3737] We can't.

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Segment 4

ESTRAGON

[3738] Why not?

VLADIMIR

[3739] We have to come back to-morrow.

ESTRAGON

[3740] What for?

VLADIMIR

[3741] To wait for Godot.

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Segment 5

ESTRAGON

[3742] Ah! [3743] (pause) [3744] He didn't come?

VLADIMIR

[3745] No.

ESTRAGON

[3746] And now it's too late.

VLADIMIR

[3747] Yes, now it's night.

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Segment 6

ESTRAGON

[3748] And if we dropped him? [3749] (pause) [3750] If we dropped him.

VLADIMIR

[3751] He'd punish us.

[3752] (Silence. [3753] He looks at the tree)

[3754] Everything's dead but the tree.

ESTRAGON

[3755] (Looking at the tree) [3756] What is it?

VLADIMIR

[3757] It's the tree.

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