Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript ProjectEn attendant Godot / Waiting for Godot

MS-HRC-SB-6-4-2

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Segment 1

ESTRAGON

[2536] I don't know.

VLADIMIR

[2537] Why?

ESTRAGON

[2537|001] (exasperated) [2538] I don't
know why I don't know!

Segment 2

VLADIMIR

[2539] No, I mean why did you
throw them away?

ESTRAGON

[2539|001] (exasperated) [2540] Because
they were hurting me.

Segment 3

VLADIMIR

[2541] (triumphantly, pointing
to the boots). [2542] There they
are! [2543] (Estragon looks at
the boots.) [2544] At the very
spot where you left them
yesterday!

Segment 4

[2545] Estragon goes towards the
boots, inspects them
closely.

ESTRAGON

[2546] They're not mine.

VLADIMIR

[2546|001] (stupefied) [2547] Not yours?

Segment 5

ESTRAGON

[2548] Mine were black. [2549] These
are brown.

VLADIMIR

[2550] You're sure yours were
black?

ESTRAGON

[2551] Well they were a kind
of grey.

Segment 6

VLADIMIR

[2552] And these are brown?
[2553] Show.

ESTRAGON

[2554] (picking up a boot) [2555] Well
they're a kind of green.

Transcription

Segments
- Segment 1
- Segment 2
- Segment 3
- Segment 4
- Segment 5
- Segment 6

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