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

MS-HRC-SB-6-4-2

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Segment 1

POZZO

[3374] Is it evening?

[3375] Silence. [3376] Vladimir and
Estragon scrutinize the
sunset.

ESTRAGON

[3377] It's rising.

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Segment 2

VLADIMIR

[3378] Impossible.

ESTRAGON

[3379] Perhaps it's the dawn.

VLADIMIR

[3380] Don't be a fool. [3381] It's the
west over there.

ESTRAGON

[3382] How do you know?

POZZO

[3383] (anguished) [3384] Is it evening?

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Segment 3

VLADIMIR

[3385] Anyway it hasn't moved.

ESTRAGON

[3386] I tell you it's rising.

POZZO

[3387] Why don't you answer me?

ESTRAGON

[3388] Give us a chance!

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Segment 4

VLADIMIR
[3389] (reassuring) [3390] It's evening,
Sir, it's evening, night
is drawing night.
[3391] My
friend here would have
me doubt it and I must
confess he shook me for
a moment.

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Segment 5

[3392] But it is not
for nothing I have lived
through this long day
and I can assure you it is
very near the end of its
repertory.
[3393] (Pause.)
[3394] How do you feel now?

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Segment 6

ESTRAGON

[3395] How much longer are we
to cart him round?
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[3396] (They half release him,

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