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

MS-HRC-SB-6-4-1

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Segment 1

POZZO

[1133] stops. [1134] (Estragon approaches
Lucky and makes to wipe
his eyes.
[1135] Lucky kicks him
violently in the shins.
[1136] Estragon
drops the handkerchief, recoils,
staggers about the stage
howling with pain.
)
[1137] Hanky!

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Segment 2

ESTRAGON

[1140] Oh the swine! [1141] (He pulls up
the leg of his trousers
)
[1142] He's
crippled me!

POZZO

[1143] I told you he didn't like
strangers.

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Segment 3

VLADIMIR

[1144] (to Estragon) [1145] Show. [1146] (Estragon
shows his leg.
[1147] To Pozzo,
angrily
.)
[1148] He's bleeding.

POZZO

[1149] It's a good sign.

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Segment 4

ESTRAGON

[1150] (on one leg). [1151] I'll never
walk again!

VLADIMIR

[1152] (tenderly). [1153] I'll carry you.
[1154] (Pause) [1155] If necessary.

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Segment 5

POZZO
[1156] He's stopped crying. [1157] (To
Estragon
.)
[1158] You have replaced
him as it were.
[1159] (Lyrically.)
[1160] The tears of the world are
a constant quantity.

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Segment 6

[1161] For
each one who begins to weep
somewhere else another stops.

[1162] The same is true of the laugh.
[1163] (He laughs) [1164] Let us not then
speak ill of our generation,

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