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

MS-TCD-10730

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Segment 1

Vladimir

[0134] Merely smile. [0135] (He smiles suddenly from ear to ear,
keeps smiling, ceases as suddenly
.)
[0136] It's not the
same thing.
[0137] Nothing to be done. [0138] (Pause.) [0139] Gogo.

Estragon

[0140] (irritably). [0141] What is it?

Vladimir

[0142] Did you ever read the Bible?

Estragon

[0143] The Bible...[0144](He reflects.) [0145] I must have taken a look
at it.

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Segment 2

Vladimir

[0145|001] Do you remember the Gospels?

Estragon

[0151] I remember the maps of the Holy Land. [0152] Coloured they
were.
[0153] Very pretty. [0154] The Dead Sea was pale blue. [0155] The
very look of it made me thirsty.
[0156] That's where we'll
go, I used to sau [place = overwritten] y, that's where we'll go for our honey-
moon.
[0157] We'll swim. [0158] We'll be happy.

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Segment 3

Vladimir

[0159] You should have been a poet.

Estragon

[0160] I was. [0161] (Gesture towards his rags.) [0162] Isn't that obvious?

[0163] Silence.

Vladimir

[0164] Where was I...[0165]How's your foot?

Estragon

[0166] Swelling visibly.

Vladimir

[0167] Ah yes, the two thieves. [0168] Do you remember the story?

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Segment 4

Estragon

[0169] No.

Vladimir

[0170] Shall I tell it to you?

Estragon

[0171] No.

Vladimir

[0172] It'll pass the time. [0173] (Pause.) [0174] Two thieves, crucified
at the same time as our Saviour.
[0175] One -

Estragon

[0176] Our what?

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Segment 5

Vladimir

[0177] Our Saviour. [0178] Two thieves. [0179] One is supposed to have
been saved and the other...(he searches for the contrar
contrary of saved)...damned.

Estragon

[0180] Saved from what?

Vladimir

[0181] Hell.

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