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

MS-HRC-SB-6-4-1

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Segment 1

ESTRAGON

[0589] To your man?

VLADIMIR

[0590] To Godot? [0591] Tied to
Godot?
[0592] What an idea!
[0593] No question of it. [0594] (Pause.)
[0595] For the moment.

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Segment 2

ESTRAGON

[0597] His name is Godot?

VLADIMIR

[0598] I think so.

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Segment 3

ESTRAGON

[0599] Fancy that. [0600] (He raises
what remains of the
carrot by the stub of leaf,
twirls it before his eyes.
)

[0601] Funny, the more you eat
the worse it gets.

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Segment 4

VLADIMIR

[0602] With me it's just the
opposite.

ESTRAGON

[0603] In other words?

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Segment 5

VLADIMIR

[0604] I get used to the muck as
I go along.

ESTRAGON

[0605] (after prolonged reflection)
[0606] Is that the opposite?

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Segment 6

VLADIMIR

[0607] Question of temperament.

ESTRAGON

[0608] Of character.

VLADIMIR

[0609] Nothing you can do about it.

ESTRAGON

[0610] No use struggling.

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Segment 7

VLADIMIR

[0611] One is what one is.

ESTRAGON

[0612] No use wriggling.

VLADIMIR

[0613] The essential doesn't
change.

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