Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript ProjectEn attendant Godot / Waiting for Godot

MS-HRC-SB-6-4-2

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Segment 1

ESTRAGON

[3748] And if we dropped him.
[3749] (Pause.) [3750] If we dropped him?

VLADIMIR

[3751] He'd punish us. [3752] (Silence.
[3753] He looks at the tree.) [3754] Every-
thing's dead but the tree.

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Segment 2

ESTRAGON

[3755] (looking at the tree.) [3756] What
is it?

VLADIMIR

[3757] It's the tree.

ESTRAGON

[3758] Yes, but what kind?

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Segment 3

VLADIMIR

[3759] I don't know. [3760] A willow.

[3762] Estragon draws Vladimir
towards the tree. [3763] They
stand motionless before
it. [3764] Silence

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Segment 4

ESTRAGON

[3765] Why don't we hang ourselves?

VLADIMIR

[3766] With what?

ESTRAGON

[3767] You haven't got a bit of rope?

VLADIMIR

[3768] No.

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Segment 5

ESTRAGON

[3769] Then we can't.

[3769|001] Silence.

VLADIMIR

[3770] Let's go.

ESTRAGON

[3771] Wait, there's my belt.

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Segment 6

VLADIMIR

[3772] It's too short.

ESTRAGON

[3773] You could hang on to my legs.

VLADIMIR

[3774] And who'd hang on to mine?

ESTRAGON

[3775] True.

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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