Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript ProjectEn attendant Godot / Waiting for Godot

MS-HRC-SB-6-4-1

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Segment 1

ESTRAGON

[0905] (Not to be outdone) [0906] A disgrace!


[0907] He resumes his gnawing.

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Segment 2

POZZO

[0908] You are severe. [0909] (To Vladimir.)
[0910] What age are you, if it's not
a rude question? [0911] (Silence.)
[0912] Sixty? [0913] Seventy? [0914] (To Estragon.)
[0915] What age would you say he
was?

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Segment 3

ESTRAGON

[0916] Eleven.

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Segment 4

POZZO
[0917] I am impertinent. [0918] (He knocks
out his pipe against the whip
gets up.) [0919] I must be getting
on. [0921] (He reflects.)

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Segment 5

[0922] Unless I
smoke another pipe before I
go. [0923] What do you say? [0924] (They
say nothing.)

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Segment 6

[0925] Oh I'm only
a small smoker, a very
small smoker, I'm not in
the habit of smoking two
pipes one on top of the other,

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Segment 7

[0925] it makes (hand to heart,
sighing) my heart go pit-
a-pat.

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Segment 8

[0926] (Silence.) [0927] It's the
nicotine, one absorbs it in
spite of one's precautions.
[0928] (sighs.) [0929] You know how it is.

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Segment 9

[0930] (silence) [0931] But perhaps you don't
smoke? [0932] Yes? [0933] No? [0934] It's of
no importance.

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Segment 10

[0935] (Silence) [0936] But
how am I to sit down now,
without affectation, now
that I have risen. [0937] Without
appearing - how shall I say -

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