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

MS-HRC-SB-6-4-1

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Segment 1

ESTRAGON

[0563] Did you reply?

VLADIMIR

[0564] How's the carrot?

ESTRAGON

[0565] It's a carrot.

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Segment 2

VLADIMIR

[0566] So much the better, so
much the better.
[0567] (Pause.)
[0568] What was it you wanted
to know?

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Segment 3

ESTRAGON
[0569] I've forgotten. [0570] (chews.)
[0571] That's what annoys me.
[0572] (He looks at the carrot
appreciatively, dangles
it between finger and
thumb.
)

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Segment 4

[0573] I'll never forget
this carrot.
[0574] (He sucks the
end of it meditatively.
)

[0575] Ah yes, now I remember.

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Segment 5

VLADIMIR

[0577] Well?

ESTRAGON

[0578] (his mouth full, vacuously)
[0579] We're not tied?

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Segment 6

VLADIMIR

[0580] I don't hear a word you're
saying.

ESTRAGON

[0581] (chews, swallows). [0582] I'm
asking you if we're tied.

VLADIMIR

[0583] Tied?

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Segment 7

ESTRAGON

[0584] Ti-ed.

VLADIMIR

[0585] How do you mean, tied?

ESTRAGON

[0586] Down.

VLADIMIR

[0587] But to whom? [0588] By whom?

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