MS-HRC-DA-145-1

[0560] (Chewing) [0561] I asked you a question.

[0562] Ah. ^{[place = margin right] SIT stump}

[0563] Did you reply?

[0564] How's the carrot ?

[0565] It's a carrot.

[0566] So much the better, so much the better. [0567] (pause)
[0568] What did you want to know?

[0569] I've forgotten. [0570] (chews) [0571] That's what annoys me.
[0572] (he looks at the carrot appreciatively, dangles it
between finger and thumb) [0573] I'll never forget this
carrot. [0574] (he sucks the end of it meditatively)
[0575] Ah yes, now I remember.

[0577] Well?

[0578] (His mouth full, vacuously) [0579] We're not tied?

[0580] I don't hear a word you're saying.

[0581] (Chews, swallows) [0582] I'm asking you if we're tied.

[0583] Tied?

[0584] Tied.

[0585] How do you mean tied?

[0586] Down.

[0587] But to whom. [0588] By whom?

[0589] To your man.

[0590] To Godot? [0591] Tied to Godot? [0592] What an idea! [0593] No
question of it. [0594] (pause) [0595] For the moment.

[0597] His name is Godot?

[0598] I think so.

[0599] Fancy that. [0600] (he raises what remains of the carrot
by the stub of leaf, twirls it before his eyes)
[0601] Funny, the more you eat the worse it tastes.

[0602] With me it's just the opposite.

[0603] In other words?

[0604] I get used to the muck as I go along.