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

MS-TCD-10730

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Segment 1

V [place = overwritten] Estragon

[0182] I'm going.

[0183] He does not move.

Vladimir

[0184] And yet...[0185](pause)[0186]...how is it -[0187] this is not boring you
I hope -
[0189] how is it that of the four Evangelists only
one speaks of a thief being saved.
[0190] The four of them
were there - or thereabouts -
[0191] and only one speaks of
a thief being saved.
[0192] (Pause.) [0193] Come on, Didi, return
the ball, can't you, once in a way?

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Segment 2

Estragon

[0193|001] (with exaggerated enthusiasm). [0194] I find this really most
extraordinarily interesting.

Vladimir

[0195] One out of four. [0196] Of the other three two don't mention
any thieves at all and the third says that both of
them abused him.

Estragon

[0197] Who?

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Segment 3

Vladimir

[0198] What?

Estragon

[0199] What's all this about? [0200] (Pause.) [0201] Abused who?

Vladimir

[0202] The Saviour.

Estragon

[0203] Why?

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Segment 4

Vladimir

[0204] Because he wouldn't save them.

Estragon

[0205] From hell?

Vladimir

[0206] Imbecile! [0207] From death.

Estragon

[0207|001] I thought you said hell.

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Segment 5

Vladimir

[0207|002] From death, from death.

Estragon

[0208] Well what of it?

Vladimir

[0209] Then the two of them must have been damned.

Estragon

[0210] And why not?

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Segment 6

Vladimir

[0211] But one of the four says that one of the two was
saved.

Estragon

[0212] Well? [0213] They don't agree and that's all there is to it.

Vladimir

[0214] But all four were there. [0215] And only one speaks of a
thief being saved.
[0216] Why believe him rather than the
others?

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