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

MS-HRC-SB-6-4-1

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Segment 1

VLADIMIR

[0012] I'm beginning to come round
to that opinion.
[0014] All my life
I've tried to put it from me,
saying, Vladimir, be reasonable,
you haven't yet tried everything.
[0015] And I resumed the struggle. [0016] (He
broods, musing on the struggle.
[0017] T
Turning to Estragon.
)
[0018] So there you
are again.

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Segment 2

ESTRAGON

[0019] Am I?

VLADIMIR

[0020] I'm glad to see you back. [0021] I
thought you were gone for ever.

ESTRAGON

[0022] Me too.

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Segment 3

VLADIMIR

[0022|001] Together again at last! [0023] We'll
have to celebrate this. But how?
[0024] (He reflects.) [0025] Get up till I embrace
you.

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Segment 4

ESTRAGON

[0027] (irritably) [0028] Not now, not now.

VLADIMIR

[0030] (hurt, coldly) [0031] may one enquire
where His Highness spent the night?

ESTRAGON

[0032] In a ditch.

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Segment 5

VLADIMIR

[0033] (admiringly). [0034] A ditch! [0035] Where?

ESTRAGON

[0036] (without gesture) [0037] Over there.

VLADIMIR

[0038] And they didn't beat you?

ESTRAGON

[0038|001] Beat me? [0039] Certainly they
beat me.

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Segment 6

VLADIMIR

[0041] The same lot as usual?

ESTRAGON

[0042] The same? [0043] I don't know.

VLADIMIR

[0045] When I think of it... all those
years... but for me... where
would you be...
[0046] (Decisively.)

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