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

MS-HRC-SB-6-4-2

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Segment 1

VLADIMIR

[2846] understand that. [2847] Wait
till I see.
[2848] (He reflects.)
[2849] Your only hope left is to
disappear.

ESTRAGON

[2850] Where?

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Segment 2

VLADIMIR
[2851] Behind the tree.
[2852] (Estragon hesitates.)
[2853] Quick! [2854] Behind the tree.

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Segment 3

[2855] (Estragon goes and crouches
behind the tree, realizes he
is not hidden,
[2857] comes out
from behind the tree.
)

[2858] Decidedly this tree will
not have been the slightest
use to us.

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Segment 4

ESTRAGON

[2861] (calmer). [2862] I lost my head.
[2864] Forgive me. [2866] It won't happen
again.
[2868] Tell me what
to do.

VLADIMIR

[2869] There's nothing to do.

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Segment 5

ESTRAGON
[2870] You go and stand there.
[2871] (He draws Vladimir to
extreme right and places
him with his back to the
stage.
)

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Segment 6

[2872] There, don't
move and watch out.

[2874] (Vladimir scans horizon,
screening his eyes with

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