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

MS-HRC-SB-6-4-1

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Segment 1

POZZO

[1398] just when we least expect it.
[1399] (Silence. [1400] Gloomily.) [1401] That's
how it is on this bitch of an
earth.

[1402] Long silence.

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Segment 2

ESTRAGON

[1403] So long as one knows.

VLADIMIR

[1404] One can bide one's time.

ESTRAGON

[1405] One knows what to expect.

VLADIMIR

[1406] No further need to worry.

ESTRAGON

[1407] Simply wait.

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Segment 3

VLADIMIR

[1408] We're used to it.

[1409] He picks up his hat,
peers inside it, shakes it,
puts it on
.

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Segment 4

POZZO

[1410] How did you find me?
[1411] (Vladimir and Estragon
look at him blankly.
)

[1412] Good? [1414] Fair? [1413] Middling?
[1415] Poor? [1416] Positively bad?

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Segment 5

VLADIMIR

[1417] (first to understand).
[1418] Oh very good, very very
good.

POZZO

[1419] (to Estragon) [1420] And you,
Sir?

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Segment 6

ESTRAGON

[1422] Oh tray bong, tray tray
bong.

POZZO

[1423] (fervently) [1424] Bless you,
Gentlemen, bless you!

[1425] (Pause) [1426] I have such need

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