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

MS-HRC-SB-6-4-2

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Segment 1

VLADIMIR

[2557] Show. [2558] (Estragon hands
him the boot.
[2559] Vladimir
inspects it, throws it
down angrily.
)
[2560] Well of
all the -

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Segment 2

ESTRAGON

[2561] You see, all that's a lot
of bloody -

VLADIMIR

[2561|001] Ah! [2562] I see what it is.
[2563] Yes, I see what's happened.

ESTRAGON

[2564] All that's a lot of bloody -

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Segment 3

VLADIMIR

[2565] It's elementary. [2566] Some-
one came and took yours
and left you his.

ESTRAGON

[2568] His were too tight for him,
[2569] so he took yours.

ESTRAGON

[2567] Why?

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Segment 4

VLADIMIR

[2568] His were too tight for him,
[2569] so he took yours.

ESTRAGON

[2570] But mine were too tight.

VLADIMIR

[2571] For you. [2572] Not for him.

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Segment 5

ESTRAGON

[2572|001] (having tried in vain
to work it out.
)
[2573] I'm
tired!
[2574] (Pause) [2575] Let's go.

VLADIMIR

[2576] We can't.

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Segment 6

ESTRAGON

[2577] Why not?

VLADIMIR

[2578] We're waiting for Godot.

ESTRAGON

[2579] Ah! [2580] (Pause. [2580|001] Despairing.)
[2581] What'll we do, what'll
we do!

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