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

MS-HRC-SB-6-4-2

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Segment 1

ESTRAGON

[2654|001] (violently). [2655] Enough!
[2656] (silence.) [2657] I suppose I
might as well sit down.

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Segment 2

[2658] He looks for a place to sit
down, then goes and sits
down on the mound.

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Segment 3

VLADIMIR

[2659] That's where you were sitting
yesterday evening.

ESTRAGON

[2661] If I could only sleep.

VLADIMIR

[2662] Yesterday you slept.

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Segment 4

ESTRAGON

[2663] I'll try.

[2664] He resumes his foetal
posture, his head between
his knees
.

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Segment 5

VLADIMIR

[2665] Wait. [2666] (He goes over and
sits down beside Estragon
and begins to sing in a
loud voice
.

[2667] Bye bye bye bye
Bye bye -

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Segment 6

ESTRAGON

[2668] (looking up angrily). [2669] Not
so loud.

VLADIMIR

[2670] (softly)
[2671] Bye bye bye bye
Bye bye bye bye
Bye bye bye bye
Bye bye...

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