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

MS-HRC-SB-6-4-2

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Segment 1

ESTRAGON

[3396] catch him again as he
falls.
)
[3397] We are not
carryatids.

VLADIMIR

[3398] You were saying your sight
used to be good, if I
heard you right.

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Segment 2

POZZO

[3399] Wonderful [3399|001] Wonderful,
wonderful sight!

[3400] Silence

ESTRAGON

[3401] (irritably) [3402] Expand! [3403] Expand!

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Segment 3

VLADIMIR

[3404] Let him alone. [3405] Can't you
see he's thinking of the
days when he was happy.

[3406] (Pause.) [3407] "Memoria pre-
teritorum bonorum" -
that must be unpleasant.

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Segment 4

ESTRAGON

[3407|001] We wouldn't know.

VLADIMIR

[3409] And it came on you all of
a sudden?

POZZO

[3410] Quite wonderful!

VLADIMIR

[3411] I'm asking you if it came
on you all of a sudden.

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Segment 5

POZZO

[3412] I woke up one fine day
as blind as Fortune.
[3413] (Pause.)
[3414] Sometimes I wonder if
I'm not still asleep.

VLADIMIR

[3415] And when was that?

POZZO

[3416] I don't know.

VLADIMIR

[3417] But no later than yester-
day -

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