Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript ProjectEn attendant Godot / Waiting for Godot

MS-TCD-10730

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Segment 1

[3733] Silence.

Estragon

[3734] Where shall we go?

Vladimir

[3735] Not far.

Estragon

[3736] Oh yes, let's go far away from here.

Vladimir

[3737] We can't.

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Segment 2

Estragon

[3738] Why not?

Vladimir

[3739] We have to come back to-morrow.

Estragon

[3740] What for?

Vladimir

[3741] To wait for Godot.

Estragon

[3742] Ah! [3743] (Sèè [place = overwritten] ilence.) [3744] He didn't come?

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Segment 3

Vladimir

[3745] No.

Estragon

[3746] And now it's too late.

Vladimir

[3747] Yes, now it's night.

Estragon

[3748] And if we dropped him? [3749] (Pause.) [3750] If we dropped him?

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Segment 4

Vladimir

[3751] He'd punish us. [3752] (Silence. [3753] He looks at the tree.)
[3754] Everything's dead but the tree.

Estragon

[3754|001] What is it? [3755] (looking at the tree). [3756] What is it?

Vladimir

[3757] It's the tree.

Estragon

[3758] Yes, but what kind?

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Segment 5

Vladimir

[3759] I don't know. [3760] A willow.

[3762] Estragon draws Vladimir towards the tree. [3763] They stand
motionless before it. [3764] Silence.

Estragon

[3765] Why don't we hang ourselves?

Vladimir

[3766] With what?

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Segment 6

Estragon

[3767] You haven't got a bit of rope?

Vladimir

[3768] No.

Estragon

[3769] Then we can't.

[3769|001] Silence.

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En attendant Godot / Waiting for Godot © 2017 Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscript Project.
Editors: Dirk Van Hulle, Pim Verhulst and Vincent Neyt