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

MS-HRC-SB-6-4-2

MS. Pages: cover - 03r 03v - 08r 08v - 13r 13v - 18r 18v - 23r 23v - 28r 28v - 33r 33v - 38r 38v - 43r 43v - 48r 48v - 53r 53v - 58r 58v - 63r 63v - 68r 68v - 73r 73v - ins.backcover
[p. 48v] [p. 49r]

VLADIMIR

[3147] Help Help me up first, [3148] then we'll go together.

ESTRAGON

[3149] You promise?

VLADIMIR

[3150] I swear it!

ESTRAGON

[3151] And we'll never come back?

VLADIMIR

[3152] Never!

ESTRAGON

[3153] We'll go to the Pyrenees.

VLADIMIR

[3154] Wherever you like.

ESTRAGON

[3157] I've always wanted to wander in the Pyrenees.

VLADIMIR

[3158] You'll wander in them.

ESTRAGON

[3158|001] (recoiling) [3159] Who farted?

VLADIMIR

[3160] Pozzo.

POZZO

[3161] Here! [3162] Here! [3163] Pity!

ESTRAGON

[3164] It's revolting.

VLADIMIR

[3165] Quick! [3167] Give me your hand!

ESTRAGON

[3168] I'm going. [3169] (Pause. [3170] Louder.) [3171] I'm going.

VLADIMIR

[3172] Well I suppose in the end I'll get up by myself. [3173] (He tries, fails.) [3174] In the fullness of time.

ESTRAGON

[3175] What's the matter with you?

VLADIMIR

[3176] Go to hell.

ESTRAGON

[3177] Are you staying there?

VLADIMIR

[3178] For the time being.

ESTRAGON

[3179] Come on, get up, you'll catch a chill.

VLADIMIR

[3180] Don't worry about me.

[p. 49v] [p. 50r]

ESTRAGON

[3181] Come on, Didi, don't be pig-headed!

[3182] He stretches out his hand which Didi makes haste to seize.

VLADIMIR

[3184] Pull!

[3185] Estragon pulls, stumbles, falls. [3186] Long silence.

POZZO

[3187] Help!

VLADIMIR

[3188] We've arrived.

POZZO

[3189] Who are you?

VLADIMIR

[3190] We are men.

[3191] Silence.

ESTRAGON

[3192] Sweet mother earth!

VLADIMIR

[3193] Can you get up.

ESTRAGON

[3194] I don't know.

VLADIMIR

[3195] Try.

ESTRAGON

[3196] Not now, not now.

[3197] Silence.

POZZO

[3198] What happened?

VLADIMIR

[3199] (violently) [3200] Will you stop it, you. [3201] Pest! [3202] He can think of nothing but himself!

ESTRAGON

[3203] What about a little snooze?

VLADIMIR

[3204] Did you hear him? [3205] He wants to know what happened!

ESTRAGON

[3206] Don't mind him. [3207] Sleep.

[3208] Silence.

[p. 50v] [p. 51r]

POZZO

[3209] Pity! [3210] Pity!

ESTRAGON

[3211] (with a start). [3213] What is it?

VLADIMIR

[3214] Were you asleep?

ESTRAGON

[3215] I must have been.

VLADIMIR

[3216] It's this bastard Pozzo at it again.

ESTRAGON

[3217] Make him stop it! [3218] Kick him in the crotch!

VLADIMIR

[3219] (striking Pozzo). [3221] Will you stop it! [3222] Crablouse! [3223] (Pozzo extricates himself with cries of pain and crawls away. [3224] He stops, saws the air blindly, calling for help. [3225] Vladimir, propped on his elbow, observes his retreat.) [3226] He's off! [3227] (Pozzo collapses.) [3229] He's down!

ESTRAGON

[3252] What do we do now?

VLADIMIR

[3253] Perhaps I could crawl to him.

ESTRAGON

[3254] Don't leave me!

VLADIMIR

[3255] Or I could call to him.

ESTRAGON

[3256] Yes, call to him.

VLADIMIR

[3257] Pozzo! [3258] (Silence.) [3259] Pozzo! [3260] (Silence.) [3261] No reply.

ESTRAGON

[3262] Together.

[p. 51v] [p. 52r]

VLADIMIR,
ESTRAGON

[3263] Pozzo! [3264] Pozzo!

VLADIMIR

[3265] He moved.

ESTRAGON

[3266] Are you sure his name is Pozzo.

VLADIMIR

[3267] (alarmed). [3268] Mr Pozzo! [3269] Come back! [3270] We won't hurt you!

[3271] Silence.

ESTRAGON

[3272] We might try him with other names.

VLADIMIR

[3273] I'm afraid he's dying.

ESTRAGON

[3274] It'd be amusing.

VLADIMIR

[3275] What'd be amusing?

ESTRAGON

[3276] To try him with other names, one after the other. [3277] It'd pass the time. [3278] And we'd be bound to hit on the right one sooner or later.

VLADIMIR

[3279] I tell you his name is Pozzo.

ESTRAGON

[3280] We'll soon see. [3282] (He reflects.) [3283] Abel! [3284] Abel!

POZZO

[3285] Help!

ESTRAGON

[3286] Got it in one!

VLADIMIR

[3287] I begin to weary of this motif.

ESTRAGON

[3288] Perhaps the other is called Cain. [3290] Cain! [3291] Cain!

[p. 52v] [p. 53r]

POZZO

[3292] Help!

ESTRAGON

[3293] He's all humanity. [3294] (Pause) [3295] Look at the little cloud.

VLADIMIR

[3296] (raising his eyes). [3297] Where?

ESTRAGON

[3298] There. In the zenith.

VLADIMIR

[3299] Well? [3300] (Pause.) [3301] What is there so wonderful about it?

[3302] Silence.

ESTRAGON

[3303] Let's pass on now to something else, do you mind?

VLADIMIR

[3304] I was just going to suggest it.

ESTRAGON

[3305] But to what?

VLADIMIR

[3306] Ah!

[3307] Silence.

ESTRAGON

[3308] Suppose we got up to begin with?

VLADIMIR

[3309] No harm trying.

[3310] They get up.

ESTRAGON

[3311] Child's play.

VLADIMIR

[3312] A simple question of will-power.

ESTRAGON

[3313] And now?

POZZO

[3314] Help!

ESTRAGON

[3315] Let's go.

VLADIMIR

[3316] We can't.

ESTRAGON

[3317] Why not?

MS. Pages: cover - 03r 03v - 08r 08v - 13r 13v - 18r 18v - 23r 23v - 28r 28v - 33r 33v - 38r 38v - 43r 43v - 48r 48v - 53r 53v - 58r 58v - 63r 63v - 68r 68v - 73r 73v - ins.backcover