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

MS-HRC-SB-6-4-2

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ESTRAGON

[3445] Exactly!

VLADIMIR

[3446] The two of you slipped. [3446|001] (Pause.) [3446|002] And fell.

POZZO

[3447] Go and see is he hurt.

VLADIMIR

[3448] We can't leave you.

POZZO

[3449] You needn't both go.

VLADIMIR

[3450] (to Estragon) [3451] You go.

ESTRAGON

[3451|001] After what he did to me! [3451|002] Never!

POZZO

[3452] Yes yes, let your friend go, [3453] he stinks so. [3453|001] (Silence.) [3479] What is he waiting for?

VLADIMIR

[3481] What are you waiting for?

ESTRAGON

[3482] I'm waiting for Godot.

[3482|001] Silence.

VLADIMIR

[3488] What exactly should he do?

POZZO

[3489] Well to begin with he shd. pull on the rope, as hard as he likes as long as he doesn't strangle him. [3490] He usually responds to that. [3491] If not he should give him a taste of his boot, in the face and the privates as far as possible.

VLADIMIR

[3492] (to Estragon) [3493] You see, you've nothing to be afraid of. [3494] It's even an opportunity to revenge yourself.

[p. 59v] [p. 60r]

ESTRAGON

[3495] And if he defends himself himself?

POZZO

[3496] No no, he never defends himself.

VLADIMIR

[3497] I'll come flying to the rescue.

ESTRAGON

[3498] Don't take your eyes off me.

[3499] He goes towards Lucky.

VLADIMIR

[3500] Make sure he's alive before you start. [3501] No point in exerting yourself if he's dead.

ESTRAGON

[3502] (bending over Lucky.) [3503] He's breathing.

VLADIMIR

[3504] Then let him have it!

[3505] With sudden fury Estragon starts kicking Lucky, hurling abuse at him as he does so. [3506] But he hurts his foot and moves away, limping and groaning. [3507] Lucky stirs.

ESTRAGON

[3509] Oh the brute!

[3510] He sits down on the mound and tries to take off his boot. [3511] But he soon desists and disposes himself for sleep, his arms on his knees and his head on his arms.

[p. 60v] [p. 61r]

POZZO

[3512] What's gone wrong now?

VLADIMIR

[3513] My friend has hurt himself.

POZZO

[3514] And Lucky?

VLADIMIR

[3515] So it is he?

POZZO

[3516] What?

VLADIMIR

[3517] It is Lucky?

POZZO

[3518] I don't understand.

VLADIMIR

[3519] And you are Pozzo?

POZZO

[3520] Certainly I am Pozzo.

VLADIMIR

[3521] The same as yesterday?

POZZO

[3522] Yesterday?

VLADIMIR

[3523] We met yesterday. [3524] (Silence.) [3525] Do you not remember?

POZZO

[3526] I don't remember having met anyone yesterday. [3527] But to-morrow I won't remember having met anyone to-day. [3528] So don't count on me to enlighten you.

VLADIMIR

[3528|001] But -

POZZO

[3529] Enough! Up pig!

VLADIMIR

[3530] You were bringing him to the fair to sell him. [3531] You spoke to us. [3532] He danced. [3533] He thought. [3534] You had your sight.

POZZO

[3535] As you please. [3536] Let me go! [3537] (Vladimir moves away.) [3538] Up!

[3540] Lucky gets up, gathers up his burdens.

[p. 61v] [p. 62r]

VLADIMIR

[3542] Where do you go from here?

POZZO

[3542|001] On. [3545] (Lucky, laden down, takes his place before Pozzo) [3546] Whip! [3547] (Lucky puts everything down, looks for whip, finds it, puts it into Pozzo's hand, takes up everything again.) [3548] Rope!

[3549] Lucky puts everything down, puts end of rope into Pozzo's hand, takes up everything again.

VLADIMIR

[3550] What is there in the bag?

POZZO

[3551] Sand. [3552] (He jerks the rope.) [3553] On!

VLADIMIR

[3574] Don't go yet.

POZZO

[3575] I'm going.

VLADIMIR

[3576] What do you do when you fall far from help?

POZZO

[3577] We wait till we can get up. [3578] Then we go on. [3578|001] On!

VLADIMIR

[3579] Before you go tell him to sing.

POZZO

[3582] To sing?

VLADIMIR

[3583] Yes. [3584] Or to think. [3585] Or to recite.

POZZO

[3586] But he is dumb.

[p. 62v] [p. 63r]

VLADIMIR

[3587] Dumb!

POZZO

[3588] Dumb. [3589] He can't even groan.

VLADIMIR

[3590] Dumb! [3591] Since when?

POZZO

[3592] (suddenly furious). [3593] Have you done tormenting me with your accursed time! [3594] It's abominable! [3595] When! [3596] When! [3597] One day, is that not enough for you, xxx one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you? [3598] (calmer.) [3599] They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. [3600] (He jerks the rope.) [3601] On!

[3602] Exeunt Pozzo and Lucky.[3603] Vladimir follows them to the edge of the stage, looks after them. [3604] The noise of falling, reinforced by the mimic of Vladimir, announces that they are down again. [3605] Silence. [3606] Vladimir goes towards Estragon, contemplates him a moment, then shakes him awake.

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