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

MS-HRC-SB-6-4-1

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Segment 1

ESTRAGON

[0140] (irritably) [0141] What is it?

VLADIMIR

[0142] Did you ever read the
Bible.

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Segment 2

ESTRAGON

[0143] The Bible... [0144] (He reflects.)
[0145] I must have taken a look
at it.

VLADIMIR

[0145|001] Do you remember the
Gospels?

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Segment 3

ESTRAGON
[0151] I remember the maps
of the Holy Land.
[0152] Coloured
they were.
[0153] Very pretty.
[0154] The Dead Sea was pale blue.

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Segment 4

[0155] The very look of it made
me thirsty.
[0156] That's where
we'll go, I used to say,
that's where we'll go for our
honeymoon.
[0157] We'll swim.
[0158] We'll be happy.

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Segment 5

VLADIMIR

[0159] You should have been a poet.

ESTRAGON

[0160] I was. [0161] (Gesture towards
his rags
.)
[0162] Isn't that
obvious?

[0163] Silence

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Segment 6

VLADIMIR

[0164] Where was I?... [0165] How's
your foot?

ESTRAGON

[0166] Swelling visibly.

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Segment 7

VLADIMIR

[0167] Ah yes, the two thieves.
[0168] Do you remember the
story?

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