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

MS-TCD-10730

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Segment 1

Pozzo

[3518] I don't understand.

Vladimir

[3519] And you are Pozzo?

Pozzo

[3520] Certainly I am Pozzo.

Vladimir

[3521] The same as yesterday?

Pozzo

[3522] Yesterday?

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Segment 2

Vladimir

[3523] We met yesterday. [3524] (Silence.) [3525] Do you not remember?

Pozzo

[3526] I don't remember having met anyone yesterday. [3527] But
to-morrow I won't remember having met anyone to-day.

[3528] So don't count on me to enlighten you.

Vladimir

[3528|001] But -

Pozzo

[3529] Enough! Up pig!

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Segment 3

Vladimir

[3530] You were bringing him to the fair to sell him. [3531] You
spoke to us.
[3532] He danced. [3533] He thought. [3534] You had your sight.

Pozzo

[3535] As you please. [3536] Let me go! [3537] (Vladimir moves away.) [3538] Up!

[3540] Lucky gets up, gathers up his burdens.

Vladimir

[3542] Where do you go from here.

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Segment 4

Pozzo

[3542|001] On. [3545] (Lucky, laden down, takes his place before Pozzo.)
[3546] Whip! [3547] (Lucky puts everything down, looks for whip,
finds it, puts it into Pozzo's hand, takes up every-
thing again
.)
[3548] Rope!

[3549] Lucky puts everything down, puts end of rope into
Pozzo's hand, takes up everything again
.

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Segment 5

Vladimir

[3550] What is there in the bag?

Pozzo

[3551] Sand. [3552] (He jerks the rope.) [3553] On!

Vladimir

[3574] Don't go yet.

Pozzo

[3575] I'm going.

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Segment 6

Vladimir

[3576] What do you do when you fall far from help?

Pozzo

[3577] We wait till we can get up. [3578] Then we go on. [3578|001] On!

Vladimir

[3579] Before you go tell him to sing.

Pozzo

[3580] Who?

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