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

MS-HRC-SB-6-4-1

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Segment 1

POZZO
[1164] it is not any unhappier than
its predecessors.
[1165] (Pause.)[1166] Let
us not speak well of it either.

[1167] (Pause.)

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Segment 2

[1168] Let us not speak of
it at all.
[1169] (Pause. [1169|001] Judiciously.)
[1170] It is true the population has
increased.

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Segment 3

VLADIMIR

[1171] Try and walk.

[1172] Estragon takes a few limping
steps, stops before Lucky
and spits on him, then goes
and sits down on the mound.

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Segment 4

POZZO

[1173] Guess who taught me all those
beautiful things.
[1174] (Pause.
[1175] Pointing to Lucky.) [1176] My
Lucky!

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Segment 5

VLADIMIR

[1177] (looking at the sky) [1178] Will night
never come?

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Segment 6

POZZO
[1179] But for him all my thoughts,
all my feelings, would have
been of common things.

[1179|001] (Pause. [1179|002] With extraordinary
vehemence.
)

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Segment 7

[1179|003] Professional
worries!
[1179|004] (Calmer.) [1180] Beauty,
grace, truth of the first
water, I knew they were
all beyond me.
[1181] So I took
a knook.

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Segment 8

VLADIMIR

[1182] (Startled from his inspection
of the sky.
).
[1183] A knook?

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