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

MS-HRC-SB-6-4-2

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Segment 1

VLADIMIR

[2223] (vexed). [2224] Then why do you
always come crawling back?

ESTRAGON

[2225] I don't know.

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Segment 2

VLADIMIR

[2226] No, but I do. [2227] It's because
you don't know how to
defend yourself.
[2228] I
wouldn't have let them
beat you.

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Segment 3

ESTRAGON

[2229] You couldn't have stopped
them.

VLADIMIR

[2230] Why not?

ESTRAGON

[2231] There was ten of them.

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Segment 4

VLADIMIR

[2232] No, I mean before they
beat you. I would have
stopped from doing what-
ever it was you were doing.

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Segment 5

ESTRAGON

[2233] I wasn't doing anything.

VLADIMIR

[2234] Then why did they beat
you?

ESTRAGON

[2235] I don't know.

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Segment 6

VLADIMIR

[2236] Ah no, Gogo, there are
things escape you that don't
escape me,
[2237] you must
feel it yourself.

ESTRAGON

[2238] I tell you I wasn't
doing anything.

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Segment 7

VLADIMIR

[2239] Perhaps you weren't.
[2240] But its the way of doing
it that counts, the way
of doing, if you want
to go on living.

ESTRAGON

[2243] I wasn't doing anything.

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