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

MS-HRC-SB-6-4-1

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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?

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.

VLADIMIR

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

ESTRAGON

[1885] Why didn't they recognize us then?

VLADIMIR

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

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...

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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BOY

[1897|002] (off) [1898] Mister...

[1899] Estragon halts. [1900] Both look towards the voice.

ESTRAGON

[1901] Off we go again.

VLADIMIR

[1902] Approach, my child.

[1903] Enter Boy, timidly. [1904] He halts.

BOY

[1905] Mister Albert...?

VLADIMIR

[1906] Yes.

ESTRAGON

[1907] What do you want?

VLADIMIR

[1908] Approach!

[1909] The Boy does not move.

ESTRAGON

[1910] (forcibly) [1911] Approach when you're told, can't you?

[1912] The Boy advances timidly, halts.

VLADIMIR

[1913] What is it?

BOY

[1914] Mr Godot...

VLADIMIR

[1916] Obviously... [1917] (Pause.) [1918] Approach.

ESTRAGON

[1920] (violently) [1921] Will you approach! [1922] (The Boy approaches.) [1923] What kept you so late?

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VLADIMIR

[1924] You have a message from Mr Godot?

BOY

[1925] Yes Sir.

VLADIMIR

[1926] Well, what is it?

ESTRAGON

[1927] What kept you so late?

[1928] The Boy looks at them in turn, not knowing to which he should reply.

VLADIMIR

[1929] (to Estragon). [1930] Let him alone.

ESTRAGON

[1931] (violently) [1932] You let me alone! [1933] (Advancing, to the Boy.) [1934] Do you know what time it is?

BOY

[1935] (recoiling). [1936] It's not my fault, Sir.

ESTRAGON

[1937] And whose is it? Mine?

BOY

[1938] I was afraid, Sir.

ESTRAGON

[1939] Afraid of what? [1940] Of us? [1941] (Pause.) [1942] Answer me!

VLADIMIR

[1943] I know what it is, he was afraid of the others.

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ESTRAGON

[1944] How long have you been here?

BOY

[1945] A good while, Sir.

VLADIMIR

[1946] You were afraid of the whip?

BOY

[1947] Yes Sir.

VLADIMIR

[1948] The roars?

BOY

[1949] Yes Sir.

VLADIMIR

[1950] The two big men?

BOY

[1951] Yes Sir.

VLADIMIR

[1952] Do you know them?

BOY

[1953] No Sir.

VLADIMIR

[1954] Are you a native of these parts? (Silence.) Do you belong to these parts?

BOY

[1955] Yes Sir.

ESTRAGON

[1956] That's all a pack of lies! [1957] (Shaking the Boy by the arm.) [1958] Tell us the truth!

BOY

[1959] (trembling) [1960] But it is the truth, Sir!

VLADIMIR

[1961] Will you let him alone! [1962] What's the matter with you? [1963] (Estragon releases

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[1963] the Boy

VLADIMIR

[1963] the Boy, moves away covering his face with his hands. [1964] Vladimir and the Boy observe him. [1965] Estragon drops his hands. His face is convulsed. [1966] What's the matter with you?

ESTRAGON

[1967] I'm unhappy!

VLADIMIR

[1968] Not really! [1969] Since when?

ESTRAGON

[1970] I'd forgotten.

VLADIMIR

[1971] Extraordinary the tricks that memory plays! [1972] (Estragon tries to speak, renounces, limps to his place, sits down and begins to take off his boots. [1973] To Boy.) [1974] Well?

BOY

[1975] Mr Godot..

VLADIMIR

[1977] I've seen you before, haven't I?

BOY

[1978] I don't know, Sir.

VLADIMIR

[1979] You don't know me?

BOY

[1980] No Sir.

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