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

MS-HRC-SB-6-4-2

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Segment 1

VLADIMIR

[3071] Pozzo's calling for help . [place = overwritten] -

POZZO

[3071|001] Help!

VLADIMIR

[3071|002] To help him -

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Segment 2

ESTRAGON

[3071|003] We help him?

VLADIMIR

[3071|004] In anticipation of some
tangible return.

ESTRAGON

[3075] And suppose he -

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Segment 3

VLADIMIR
[3076] Let us not waste our time
in idle discourse!
[3077] (Pause.
[3078] Vehemently.) [3079] Let us do
something, while we have
the chance!
[3080] It is not every
day that we are needed.

[3081] Not indeed that we personally
are needed.

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Segment 4

[3082] Others would
meet the case equally well,
if not better.
[3083] To all man-
kind they were addressed,
those cries for help still
ringing in our ears.

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Segment 5

[3084] But
at this place, at this moment
of time, all mankind is
us, whether we like it or
not.
[3085] Let us make the most
of it, before it is too late!

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Segment 6

[3086] Let us represent worthily for
once the foul brood to which
a cruel fate consigned us!

[3087] What do you say? [3088] (Estragon
says nothing
.)

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Segment 7

[3089] It is true
that when with folded arms
we weigh the pros and cons
we are no less a credit to

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