Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript ProjectEn attendant Godot / Waiting for Godot

MS-HRC-SB-6-4-2

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Segment 1

VLADIMIR

[2330] You're a hard man to
get on with, Gogo.

ESTRAGON

[2331] It'd be better if we
parted.

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Segment 2

VLADIMIR

[2332] You always say that
[2333] and you always come
crawling back.

ESTRAGON

[2335] The best thing would
be to kill me, like the
other.

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Segment 3

VLADIMIR

[2336] What other. [2337] (Pause.)
[2338] What other?

ESTRAGON

[2339] Like billions of others.

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Segment 4

VLADIMIR

[2340] (sententious) [2341] To
every man his little
cross. [2342] (He sighs.) [2343] Till
he dies. (Afterthought.)
And is forgotten.

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Segment 5

ESTRAGON

[2344] In the meantime let
us try and converse
calmly, since we are
incapable of keeping
silent.

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Segment 6

VLADIMIR

[2345] You're right. We're
inexhaustible.

ESTRAGON

[2346] It's so we won't think.

VLADIMIR

[2347] We have that excuse.

ESTRAGON

[2348] It's so we won't hear.

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En attendant Godot / Waiting for Godot © 2017 Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscript Project.
Editors: Dirk Van Hulle, Pim Verhulst and Vincent Neyt