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

MS-HRC-SB-6-4-2

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Segment 1

[3724] stands motionless and bowed.
[3725] Estragon wakes, takes off his
boots, gets up with one in each
hand and goes and puts them
down centre front, then goes
towards Vladimir
.

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Segment 2

ESTRAGON

[3726] What's wrong with you?

VLADIMIR

[3727] Nothing.

ESTRAGON

[3728] I'm going.

VLADIMIR

[3729] So am I.

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Segment 3

ESTRAGON

[3731] Was I long asleep?

VLADIMIR

[3732] I don't know.

[3733] Silence.

ESTRAGON

[3734] Where shall we go?

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Segment 4

VLADIMIR

[3735] Not far.

ESTRAGON

[3736] Oh yes, let's go far away
from here.

VLADIMIR

[3737] We can't.

ESTRAGON

[3738] Why not?

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Segment 5

VLADIMIR

[3739] We have to come back to-morrow.

ESTRAGON

[3740] What for?

VLADIMIR

[3741] To wait for Godot.

ESTRAGON

[3742] Ah. [3743] (Silence.) [3744] He didn't
come.

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Segment 6

VLADIMIR

[3745] No.

ESTRAGON

[3746] And now it's too late.

VLADIMIR

[3747] Yes, now it's night.

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