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

MS-TCD-10730

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Segment 1

Vladimir
[0094] Sometimes I feel it coming all the same. [0095] Then I go
all queer.
[0096] (He takes off his hat, peers inside it,
feels about inside it, shakes it, puts it on again
.)

[0097] How shall I say? [0098] Relieved and at the same time...
(he searches for the word)... terror-struck [place = margin left] appalled.
[0099] (With
emphasis
.)
[0100] TER-ROR STRUCK [place = margin left] AP-PALLED. [0101] (He takes off his hat again,
peers inside it
.)
[0102] Funny.

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Segment 2

[0103] (He knocks on the crown as
though to dislodge a foreign body, peers into [place = margin left] it again,
puts it on again
.)
[0104] Nothing to be done. [0105] (Estragon with
a supreme effort succeeds in pulling off his boot.
[0106] He
peers inside it, feels about inside it, turns it upside
down, shakes it, looks on the ground to see if anything
has fallen out, finds nothing, feels inside it again,
staring sightlessly before him
.)
[0107] Well?

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Segment 3

Estragon

[0108] Nothing.

Vladimir

[0109] Show.

Estragon

[0110] There's nothing to show.

Vladimir

[0111] Try and put it on again.

Estragon

[0112] (examining his foot). [0113] I'll air it for a bit.

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Segment 4

Vladimir

[0114] There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots
the faults of his feet.
[0115] (He takes off his hat again,
peers inside it, feels about inside it, knocks on the
crown, blows into [place = margin left] it, puts it on again.
)
[0116] This is getting
alarming.
[0117] (Silence. [0118] Vladimir deep in thought, Vladi
Estragon pulling at his toes.)
[0119] One of the thieves
was saved.
[0120] (O [place = overwritten] Pause.) [0121] It's a reasonable percentage.
[0122] (Pause.) [0123] Gogo.

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Segment 5

Estragon

[0124] What?

Vladimir

[0125] Suppose we repented.

Estragon

[0126] Repented what?

Vladimir

[0127] Oh...[0128](He reflects.) [0129] We wouldn't have to go o [place = overwritten] into the
details.

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Segment 6

Estragon

[0130] Our being born?

[0131] Vladimir breaks into a hearty laugh which he immediately
stifles, his hand pressed to his pubis, his face con-
torted.

Vladimir

[0132] One daren't even laugh any more.

Estragon

[0133] Dreadful privation.

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Addition 1
appalled
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Addition 2
AP-PALLED
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Addition 3
it
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Addition 4
it
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