MS-BL-LCP-1954-23

[1560] (Impatient) [1561] Well?

[1562] Why doesn't he put down his bags?

[1563] Rubbish!

[1564] Are you sure?

[1565] Damn it haven't you already told us!

[1566] I've already told you?

[1567] He's already told you?

[1568] Anyway he has put them down.

[1569] (Glance at Lucky) [1570] So he has. [1571] And what of it?

[1572] Since he has put down his bags it is impossible that we should have asked why he does not do so.

[1573] Well reasoned!

[1574] And why has he put them down.

[1575] Answer us that.

[1576] In order to dance.

[1577] True.

[1579] True.

[1635] Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful!

[1636] (To Pozzo) [1637] Tell him to think.

[1638] Give him his hat.

[1639] His hat?

[1640] He can't think without his hat.

[1641] (To Estragon) [1642] Give him his hat.

[1643] Me! [1644] After what he did to me! [1645] Never!

[1646] I'll give it to him myself. [1647] (he does not move)

[1648] Let him go and fetch it.

[1649] It's better to give it to him.

[1650] I'll give it to him. [1651] (he picks up the hat and tenders it at arm's length to Lucky, [1652] who does not move)

[1653] You must put it on his head.

[1654] (To Pozzo) [1655] Tell him to take it.

[1656] It's better to put it on his head.

[1657] I'll put it on his head. [1658] (he goes round behind Lucky cautiously, approaches him softly from behind, puts the hat on his head and recoils smartly. [1659] LUCKY does not move. [1660] Silence)

[1661] What's he waiting for?

[1662] Stand back.

[1663] (VLADIMIR and ESTRAGON move away from Lucky. [1664] POZZO jerks the rope. [1665] LUCKY looks at Pozzo)

[1666] Think, pig!

[1667] (Pause. [1668] LUCKY begins to dance)

[1669] Stop!

[1670] (LUCKY stops)

[1671] Forward!

[1672] (LUCKY advances)

[1673] Stop!

[1674] (LUCKY stops)

[1675] Think!

[1676] (Silence.

[1677] On the other hand with regard to -

[1678] Stop!

[1679] (LUCKY stops)

[1680] Back!

[1681] (LUCKY moves back)

[1682] Stop!

[1683] (LUCKY stops)

[1684] Hoy!

[1685] (LUCKY turns towards auditorium)

[1686] Think!

[1692] Given the existence as uttered forth in the public works of Puncher and Wattmann of a personal God quaquaquaqua with white beard quaquaquaqua outside time without extension who from the heights of divine apathia divine athambia divine aphasia loves us dearly with some exceptions for reasons unknown but time will tell and suffers like the divine Miranda with those who for reasons unknown but time will tell are plunged in torment plunged in fire whose fire and flames if that continues and who can doubt it will fire the firmament that is to say blast hell to heaven so blue even now and calm so calm with a calm which even though intermittent is better than nothing but not so fast and considering moreover that as a result of the labours though left unfinished crowned by the Acacacacademy of Anthropopopometry of Essy-in-Possy of Testew and Conard it is established beyond all doubt all other doubt that that which clings to the labours of men that as a result of the labours left unfinished unfinished of Testew and Conard it is established as hereinafter but not so fast for reasons unknown that as a result of the public works of Puncher and Wattmann it is established as clearly so clearly that in view of the labours of Fartov and Belcher unfinished unfinished for reasons unknown of Testew and Conard unfinished unfinished it is established what many deny that man in Possy of Testew and Conard that man in short that man in brief in spite of the progress of alimentation and defecation wastes and pines wastes and pines and concurrently simultaneously for reasons unknown in spite of the strides of physical culture the practice of sports such as tennis football running cycling swimming riding flying conating tennis camogie skating of all kinds

[1692] tennis flying sports of all sorts autumn summer winter winter tennis of all kinds hockey of all sorts penicilline and succedanea in a word I resume and concurrently simultaneously for reasons unknown to shrink and dwindle in spite of the tennis I resume flying golf over nine holes and eighteen tennis of all sorts in a word for reasons unknown in Feckham Peckham Fulham Clapham namely concurrently simultaneously for reasons unknown but time will tell to dwindle dwindle I resume Fulham Clapham in a word the dead loss per capitem since the death of Samuel Johnson being to the tune of one inch four ounce per capitem approximately by and large more or less to the nearest decimal good measure round figures stark naked in the stockinged feet in Alabama for reasons unknown in a word no matter what matter the facts are there and considering what is more what is still more grave that it appears what is still more grave that in the light of the labours in progress of Steinweg and Peterman it appears what is still more grave that in the light the light the light of the labours abandoned of Steinweg and Peterman that in the plains in the mountains by the seas by the rivers of water and fire the air is the same and the earth namely the air and the earth in the great cold the air and the earth abode of stones in the great cold alas alas in the year of their Lord six hundred something the air the earth the sea the earth abode of stones in the great deeps the great cold on sea on land and in the air I resume for reasons unknown in spite of the tennis the facts are there but time will tell I resume alas alas on on in short in fine on on abode of stones who can doubt it I resume but not so fast I resume the skull to shrink pine waste and concurrently simultaneously for reasons unknown in spite of the tennis on on the beard the flames the tears the stones so blue so calm alas alas on on the skull the skull the skull the skull in Alabama in spite of the tennis the labours abandoned left unfinished graver still abode of stones in a word I resume alas alas abandoned unfinished the skull the skull in Alabama in spite of the tennis the skull alas the stones Conard

[1693] (melee, [1694] final vociferations)

[1695] tennis...[1696]the stones...[1697]so calm...[1698]Conard...[1699]unfinshed...

[1700] His hat!

[1704] Avenged!

[1706] Give me that! [1707] (he snatches the hat from Vladimir, throws it on the ground, tramples on it) [1708] There's an end to his thinking!

[1709] But will he be able to find his way?

[1710] I'll find his way for him [1711] (he kicks Lucky) [1712] Up [1713] pig!

[1714] Perhaps he's dead.

[1715] You'll kill him.

[1716] Up [1717] scum! [1718] (he jerks the rope. [1719] To Vladimir and Estragon) [1720] Help me!

[1721] How?

[1722] Raise him up!

[1725] He's doing it on purpose!

[1726] You must hold him. [1727] (pause) [1728] Come on, come on, raise him up!

[1729] To hell with him!

[1730] Come on, once again.

[1731] What does he take us for?

[1734] Don't let him go!

[1735] (VLADIMIR and ESTRAGON totter)

[1736] Don't move!

[1737] (POZZO fetches bag and basket and brings them towards Lucky)

[1738] Hold him tight!

[1739] (He puts the bag in Lucky's hand. LUCKY drops it immediately)