Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript ProjectEn attendant Godot / Waiting for Godot

MS-HRC-SB-6-4-1

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Segment 1

ESTRAGON

[0220] People are ignorant bloody
apes.

Segment 2

[0221] He [rises painfully], goes
limping to extreme ~~right~~
left, halts, gazes into distance
off with his hand [screening] his
eyes, turns, goes to extreme
right, gazes into distance.

Segment 3

[0222] Vladimir watches him, then
goes and picks up the boot,
peers into it, drops it hastily.

Segment 4

VladimIR

[0223] Pah!

[0224] He spits. [0225] Estragon moves to
centre, halts with his back
to auditorium.

Segment 5

ESTRAGON

[0226] [Charming] spot. [0227] (He turns,
advances to front, halts
facing auditorium.)
[0228] Inspiring prospects. [0229] (He
turns to Vladimir.) [0230] Let's
go.

Segment 6

VLADIMIR

[0231] We can't

ESTRAGON

[0232] Why not?

VLADIMIR

[0233] We're waiting for Godot.

Segment 7

ESTRAGON

[0233|001] (despairingly) [0234] Ah! [0235] (Pause)
[0236] You're sure it was here?

VLADIMIR

[0237] What?

Segment 8

ESTRAGON

[0238] That we were to wait.

VLADIMIR

[0239] He said by the [tree]. [0240] (They
look at the tree.) [0241] Do you see
any [others]?

Transcription

Segments
- Segment 1
- Segment 2
- Segment 3
- Segment 4
- Segment 5
- Segment 6
- Segment 7
- Segment 8

En attendant Godot / Waiting for Godot © 2017 Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscript Project.
Editors: Dirk Van Hulle, Pim Verhulst and Vincent Neyt