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

MS-TCD-10730

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Segment 1

Vladimir

[2308] Calm yourself, calm yourself.

Estragon

[2309] You and your landscapes! [2310] Tell me about the worms!

Vladimir

[2311] All the same, you can't tell me that this (gesture)
bears any resemblance to...(he hesitates)...to the
Macon country for example.
[2312] You can't deny there's a
big difference.

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Segment 2

Estragon

[2313] The Macon country! [2314] Who's talking to you about the
Macon country?

Vladimir

[2315] But you were there yourself, in the Macon country.

Estragon

[2316] No, I was never in the Macon dountry ! [2317]
I've puked my puke of a life away here, I tell you!

[2318] Here! [2319] In the Cackon country!

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Segment 3

Vladimir

[2320] But we were there together, I could swear to it!
[2321] Picking grapes for a man called...(he snaps his
fingers)...can't think of the name of the man, at
a place called...(snaps his fingers)...can't think of
the name of the place, do you not remember?

Estragon

[2322] (a little calmer). [2323] It's possible. [2324] I didn't notice
anything.

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Segment 4

Vladimir

[2325] But down there everything is red!

Estragon

[2326] (exasperated). [2327] I didn't notice anything, I tell you!

[2328] Silence. [2329] Vladimir sighs deeply.

Vladimir

[2330] You're a hard man to get on with, Gogo.

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Segment 5

Estragon

[2331] It'd be better if we parted.

Vladimir

[2332] You always say that [2333] and you always come crawling back.

Estragon

[2335] The best thing would be to kill me, like the other.

Vladimir

[2336] What other? [2337] (Pause.) [2338] What other?

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Segment 6

Estragon

[2339] Like billions of others.

Vladimir

[2340] (sententious). [2341] To every man his little cross. [2342] (He
sighs
.)
[2343] Till he dies. (Afterthought.) And is forgotten.

Estragon

[2344] In the meantime let us try and converse calmly, since
we are incapable of keeping silent.

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