Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript ProjectEn attendant Godot / Waiting for Godot

MS-HRC-SB-6-4-2

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Segment 1

VLADIMIR
[3107] proceedings which - how
shall I say - which may
at first sight appear
[xxx] reasonable, until
they become a habit. [3108] You
may say it is to prevent
our reason from foundering.

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Segment 2

[3109] No doubt. [3110] But has it not
long been straying in the
night without end of the
abyssal depths. That's what
I sometimes wonder. [3111] You
follow my reasoning.

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Segment 3

ESTRAGON

[3111|001] (aphoristic for once). [3112] We
are all born mad. [3113] Some
remain so.

POZZO

[3114] Help! I'll pay you.

ESTRAGON

[3115] How much?

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Segment 4

POZZO

[3116] One hundred francs.

ESTRAGON

[3117] It's not enough.

VLADIMIR

[3118] I wouldn't go as far as that.

ESTRAGON

[3119] You think it enough.

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Segment 5

VLADIMIR

[3120] No, I mean so far as to
assert that I was weak
in the head when I came
into the world. [3121] But that
is not the question.

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Segment 6

POZZO

[3122] Two hundred!

VLADIMIR

[3123] We wait. [3124] We are bored.
[3125] (He throws up his hand.)
[3126] No, don't protest, we are
bored to death, there's no

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