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

MS-HRC-SB-6-4-1

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Segment 1

ESTRAGON

[1872] Very likely. [1873] They all
change. Only we can't.

VLADIMIR

[1874] Likely! [1875] It's certain.
[1876] Didn't you see them?

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Segment 2

ESTRAGON

[1877] I suppose I did. [1878] But
I don't know them.

VLADIMIR

[1879] Yes you do know them.

ESTRAGON

[1880] No I don't know them.

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Segment 3

VLADIMIR

[1881] We know them, I tell
you.
[1882] You forget every-
thing.
[1883] (Pause. [1883|001] To
himself
.)
[1884] Unless they're
not the same...

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Segment 4

ESTRAGON

[1885] Why didn't they recog-
nize us then?

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Segment 5

VLADIMIR

[1886] That means nothing.
[1887] I too pretended not to
recognize them.
[1888] And
then nobody ever
recognizes us.

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Segment 6

ESTRAGON

[1889] Forget it. [1890] What we
need -
[1891] ow! [1892] (Vladimir
does not react.
)
[1893] Ow!

VLADIMIR

[1893|001] (to himself) [1894] Unless
they're not the same...

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Segment 7

ESTRAGON

[1895] Didi! [1896] It's the other foot.

[1897] He goes hobbling towards
the mound.

VLADIMIR

[1897|001] Unless they're not the
same...

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