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

MS-HRC-SB-6-4-2

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Segment 1

ESTRAGON

[3641] up painfully.) [3642] Ow! [3642|001] Didi!

VLADIMIR

[3643] I don't know what to think
any more.

ESTRAGON

[3644] My feet! [3645] (He sits down and
tries to take off his boots.
)

[3646] Help me!

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Segment 2

VLADIMIR
[3647] Was I sleeping, while the
others suffered?
[3648] Am I
sleeping now?
[3649] To-morrow,
when I wake, or think I do,
what shall I say of to-day?

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Segment 3

[3650] That with Estragon my friend,
at this place, until the fall of
night, I waited for Godot?

[3651] That Pozzo passed, with his
carrier, and that he spoke to us?

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Segment 4

[3652] Probably. [3653] But in all that what
truth will there be?
[3654] (Estragon
having struggled with his boots
in vain, is dozing off again.

[3655] Vladimir looks at him.)

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Segment 5

[3656] He'll
know nothing.
[3657] He'll tell me
about the blows he received and
I'll give him a carrot.

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Segment 6

[3658] (Pause.) [3659] Astride of a grave,
and a difficult birth.
[3660] Down
in the hole, lingeringly, the
grave-digger puts on the
forceps.
[3661] We have time to
grow old.
[3662] The air is full of

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