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

MS-TCD-10730

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Segment 1

Estragon

[0804] Oh I say!

Vladimir

[0805] A running sore!

Estragon

[0806] It's the rope.

Vladimir

[0807] It's the rubbing.

Estragon

[0808] It's inevitable

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Segment 2

Vladimir

[0809] It's the knot.

Estragon

[0810] It's the chafing.

[0811] They resume their inspection, dwell on the face.

Vladimir

[0811|001] (grudgingly)[0812] He's not bad looking.

Estragon

[0813] (shrugging his shoulders, wry face).[0814] Would you say so?

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Segment 3

Vladimir

[0815] A trifle effeminate.

Estragon

[0816] Look at the slobber.

Vladimir

[0817] It's inevitable.

Estragon

[0818] Look at the slaver.

Vladimir

[0819] Perhaps he's a halfwit.

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Segment 4

Estragon

[0820] A cretin.

Vladimir

[0821] (looking closer). [0822] Looks like a goitre.

Estragon

[0823] (ditto). [0824] It's not certain.

Vladimir

[0825] He's panting.

Estragon

[0826] It's inevitable.

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Segment 5

Vladimir

[0827] And his eyes!

Estragon

[0828] What about them?

Vladimir

[0829] Goggling out of his head.

Estragon

[0830] Looks at his last gasp to me.

Vladimir

[0831] It's not certain. [0832] (Pause.) [0833] Ask him a question.

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