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

MS-TCD-10730

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Segment 1

[2122] Next day. [2123] Same time. [2124] Same place.
[2125] Estragon's boots front centre, heels together, toes
splayed.
[2126] Lucky's hat at same place.

[2127] The tree has four or five leaves.

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Segment 2

[2128] Enter Vladimir agitatedly. [2129] He halts and looks long at
the tree,
[2130]then suddenly begins to move feverishly about
the stage.
[2131] He halts before the boots, picks one up, exam-
ines it, sniffs it, manifests disgust, puts it back care-
fully.
[2132] Comes and goes. [2133] Halts extreme right and gazes
into distance off, shading his eyes wuith his hand.
[2134] Comes
and goes.
[2135] Halts extreme left, as before. [2136] Comes and goes.
[2137] Halts suddenly and begins to sing loudly.

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Segment 3

Vladimir
[2138] A dog came in -

[2139] Having begun too high he stops, clears his throat,
resumes
:


[2140] A dog came in the kitchen
And stole a crust of bread.

[2141] Then cook up with a ladle
And beat him till he was dead.


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Segment 4

[2142] Then all the dogs came running
And dug the dog a tomb -


[2143] He stops, broods, resumes:

[2144] Then all the dogs came running
And dug the dog a tiomb
And wrote yupon the tombstone
For the eyes of dogs to come:


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Segment 5

[2145] A dog came in the kitchen
And stole a crust of bread.

[2146] Then cook up with a ladle
And beat him till he was dead.


[2147] Then all the dogs came running
And dug the dog a tomb -


[2148] He stops, [2149]broods, resumes:

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Title 1
[2121] ACT II
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