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

MS-HRC-SB-6-4-1

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Segment 1

POZZO

[1315] I'd wait till it was
black night before I gave
up.
[1316] (He looks at the stool.)
[1317] I'd very much like to sit
down, but I don't quite
know how to go about it.

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Segment 2

ESTRAGON

[1318] Could I be of any help?

POZZO

[1319] If you asked me perhaps.

ESTRAGON

[1320] What?

POZZO

[1321] If you asked me to sit down.

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Segment 3

ESTRAGON

[1322] Would that be a help?

POZZO

[1323] I fancy so.

ESTRAGON

[1324] Here we go. [1325] Be seated,
Sir, I beg of you.

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Segment 4

POZZO

[1326] No no, I wouldn't think
of it.
[1327] (Pause. [1328] Aside.)
[1329] Ask me again.

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Segment 5

ESTRAGON

[1330] Come come, take a seat
I beseech you, you'll
get pneumonia.

POZZO

[1331] You really think so?

ESTRAGON

[1332] Why it's absolutely certain.

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Segment 6

POZZO
[1333] No doubt you are right.
[1334] (He sits down) [1336] Done it again!
[1336|001] (Pause.) [1335] Thank you, dear
fellow.

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Segment 7

[1337] (He consults his
watch
.)
[1338] But I must really
be getting on, if I am
to observe my schedule.

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