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

MS-TCD-10730

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Segment 1

Vladimir

[0321] Don't tell me!

Estragon

[0322] I dreamt that -

Vladimir

[0323] DON'T TELL ME!

Estragon

[0324] (gesture towards the universe). [0325] This one is enough
for you?
[0326] (Silence.) [0327] It's not nice of you, Didi. [0328] Who am
I to tell my private nightmares to if I can't tell them
to you?

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Segment 2

Vladimir

[0329] Let them remain private. [0330] You know I can't bear that.

Estragon

[0331] (coldly). [0332] There are times when I wonder if it wouldn't
be better for us to part.

Vladimir

[0333] Youw You wouldn't go far.

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Segment 3

Estragon

[0334] That would be too bad, really too bad. [0335] (Pause.)
[0336] Wouldn't it, Didi, be really too bad? [0337] (Pause.) [0338] When
you think of the beauty of the way.
[0339] (Pause.) [0340] And the
goodness of the wayfarers.
[0341] (Pause. [0342] Wheedling.)
[0343] Wouldn't it, Didi?

Vladimir

[0344] Calm yourself.

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Segment 4

Estragon

[0345] (voluptuously). [0346] Calm...[0347]calm...[0349]The English say cawm.
[0350] (Pause.) [0351] You kno[q]w the story of the Englishman in the
brothel?

Vladimir

[0352] Yes.

Estragon

[0353] Tell it to me.

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Segment 5

Vladimir

[0354] Ah stop it!

Estragon

[0355] An Englishman having drunk a little more than usual
takes himself proceeds to a brothel.
[0356] The bawd asks him if he
wants a fair one, a dark one or a red-haired one.
[0357] Go
on.

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Segment 6

Vladimir

[0358] STOP IT!

[0359] Exit Vladimir hurriedly. [0360] Estragon gets up and follows
him as far as the limit of the stage.
[0361] Gestures of
Estragon like those of a spectator encouraging a
pugilist.
[0362] Enter Vladimir. He brushes pas Estragon,
crosses the stage with bowed head.
Estragon takes a
step towards him, halts.

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