Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript ProjectEn attendant Godot / Waiting for Godot

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Segment 1

Estragon

[0217] Who believes him?

Vladimir

[0218] Everybody. [0219] It's the only version they know.

Estragon

[0220] People are bloody apes. ignorant apes.

[0221] He rises painfully, goes limping to extreme left,
halts, gazes into distance off with his hand screening
his eyes, turns, goes to extreme right, gazes into
distance. [0222] Vladimir watches him, then goes and picks
up the boot, peers into it, drops it hastily.

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Segment 2

Vladimir

[0223] Pah!

[0224] He spits. [0225] Estragon moves to centre, halts with his
back to auditorium.

Estragon

[0226] Charming spot. [0227] (He turns, advances to front, haly [place = overwritten] ts
facing auditorium.) [0228] Inspiring prospects. [0229] (He turns
to Vladimir.) [0230] Let's go.

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Segment 3

Vladimir

[0231] We can't.

Estragon

[0232] Why not?

Vladimir

[0233] We're waiting for Godot.

Estragon

[0233|001] (despairingly). [0234] Ah! [0235] (Pause.) [0236] You're sj [place = overwritten] ure it was here?

Vladimir

[0237] What?

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Segment 4

Estragon

[0238] That we were to wait.

Vladimir

[0239] He said by the tree. [0240] (They look at the tree.) [0241] Do you
see any others.

Estragon

[0242] What is it?

Vladimir

[0242|001] I don't know. [0243] A willow.

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Segment 5

Estragon

[0244] Where are the leaves?

Vladimir

[0245] It must be dead.

Estragon

[0246] No more weeping.

Vladimir

[0247] Or perhaps it's not the season.

Estragon

[0248] Looks to me more like a bush.

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En attendant Godot / Waiting for Godot © 2017 Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscript Project.
Editors: Dirk Van Hulle, Pim Verhulst and Vincent Neyt