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

MS-HRC-SB-6-4-1

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Segment 1

VLADIMIR

[0073] (angrily) [0074] No one ever suffers
but you.
[0075] I don't count. [0077] I'd
like to hear what you'd say

[0076] if you had what I have?

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Segment 2

ESTRAGON

[0078] It hurts?

VLADIMIR

[0078|001] (angrily) [0079] Hurts! [0080] He
wants to know if it hurts!

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Segment 3

ESTRAGON

[0081] (pointing) [0082] You might
button it all the same.

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Segment 4

VLADIMIR

[0083] (stooping) [0084] True. [0085] (He
buttons his fly.
)
[0086] Never
neglect the little things of
life.

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Segment 5

ESTRAGON

[0087] What do you expect?, you
always wait till the last
moment.

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Segment 6

VLADIMIR

[0088] (musingly) [0089] The last moment...
[0090] (He meditates) [0091] Hope deterred
maketh the something sick,

[0092] who said that?

ESTRAGON

[0093] Why don't you help me?

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Segment 7

VLADIMIR
[0094] Sometimes I feel it coming
all the same.
[0095] Then I go all
queer.
[0096] (He takes off his hat,
peers inside it, feels about
inside it, shakes it, puts it
on again
.)

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Segment 8

[0097] How shall I say?
[0098] Relieved and at the same
time... (he searches for the word)..
appalled.
[0099] (with emphasis)
[0100] AP-PALLED. [0101] (He takes off

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