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

MS-HRC-SB-6-4-1

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Segment 1

VLADIMIR

[0469] His agents.

ESTRAGON

[0470] His correspondents.

VLADIMIR

[0471] His books.

ESTRAGON

[0472] His bank account.

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Segment 2

VLADIMIR

[0473] Before taking a decision.

ESTRAGON

[0474] It's the normal thing.

VLADIMIR

[0475] Is it not?

ESTRAGON

[0476] I think it is.

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Segment 3

VLADIMIR

[0477] I think so too.

[0478] Silence

ESTRAGON

[0479] (anxious) [0480] And we?

VLADIMIR

[0481] I beg your pardon?

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Segment 4

ESTRAGON

[0482] I said, And we?

VLADIMIR

[0483] I don't understand.

ESTRAGON

[0484] Where do we come in?

VLADIMIR

[0485] Come in?

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Segment 5

ESTRAGON

[0486] Take your time.

VLADIMIR

[0487] Come in? [0488] On our hands
and knees.

ESTRAGON

[0489] As bad as that?

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Segment 6

VLADIMIR

[0490] Your [Worship] wishes to
assert his prerogatives?

ESTRAGON

[0491] We've no rights any more?

[0492] Laugh of Vladimir, stifled
as before,
[0493] less the smile.

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Segment 7

VLADIMIR

[0494] You'd make me laugh,
if it wasn't prohibited.

ESTRAGON

[0495] We've lost our rights?

VLADIMIR

[0496] (distinctly) [0497] We got
rid of them.

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