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[2410] Then what are we complaining about?

[2411] Thinking is not the worst.

[2412] Perhaps not. But at least there's that.

[2413] That what?

[2414] That's the idea, let's ask each other questions.

[2415] What do you mean, at least there's that?

[2416] That much less. ^MISERY

[2417] True.

[2418] Well? [2419] If we gave thanks for our mercies?

[2420] What is terrible is to have thought.

[2421] But did that ever happen to us?

[2422] Where are all these corpses from?

[2423] These skeletons.

[2424] Tell me that.

[2425] True.

[2426] We must have thought a little.

[2427] At the very beginning.

[2428] A charnel-house! A charnel-house!

[2429] You don't have to look.

[2430] You can't help looking.

[2431] True.

[2432] Try as one may.

[2433] I beg your pardon?

[2434] Try as one may.

[2435] We should turn resolutely towards Nature.

[2436] We've tried that.

[2437] True.

[2438] Oh it's not the worst, I know.

[2439] What?

[2440] To have thought.

[2441] Obviously.

[2442] But we could have done without it.

[2443] Que voulez-vous?

[2444] I beg your pardon?

[2444|001] Que voulez-vous?

[2444|002] Ah! [2444|003] que voulez-vous. [2444|004] Exactly.

[2446] That wasn't such a bad little canter.

[2447] Yes, but now we'll have to find something else.

[2448] Let me see. [2448|001] (he takes off his hat, concentrates)

[2449] Let me see. [2449|001] (he takes off his hat, concentrates)

[2449|003] Ah!

[2449|005] Well?

[2452] What was I saying, [2453] we could go on from there.

[2454] When? ^{WHAT WERE YOU SAYING WHEN?}

[2455] At the very beginning.

[2456] The very beginning of WHAT?

[2457] This evening...[2458]I was saying...I was saying...

[2459] Don't ask me.^{, I'm not a historian.}

^{X to R C.} [2460] Wait...we embraced...we were content ^hAPPY...content ^hAPPY...what do we do now that we're content ^hAPPY...go on waiting...waiting...let me think...it's coming...go on waiting...now that we're content ^hAPPY...let me see...ah! [2461] The tree!

[2462] The tree? ^up.

[2463] Do you not remember?

[2464] I'm tired.

[2465] Look at it.

[2467] I see nothing.

[2468] But yesterday evening it was all black and bare. [2469] To-day ^{AND NOW} it's covered with leaves.

[2470] Leaves?

[2471] In a single night.

[2472] It must be the Spring.

[2473] But in a single night!

[2474] I tell you we weren't here yesterday. [2475] Another of your nightmares.

^{X to him} [2476] And where were we yesterday evening according to you? ^turn

[2477] How do I know? [2479] In another compartment. [2480] There's no lack of void.

[2481] (Sure of himself) [2482] Good. [2483] We weren't here yesterday evening. [2484] Now what did we do yesterday evening?

[2485] Do?

[2486] Try and remember.

[2487] Do...I suppose we talked ^blathered..

[2488] (Controlling himself) [2489] About what? ^{Sit st.}

[2490] Oh...this and that, I suppose, nothing in particular. [2491] (with assurance) [2492] Yes, now I remember, yesterday evening we spent talking about nothing in particular. [2493] That's been going on now for half a century.

[2494] You don't remember any fact, any circumstance?

[2495] (Weary) [2496] Don't torment me, Didi.

[2497] The sun. [2498] The moon. [2499] Do you not remember?

[2500] They must have been there, as usual.

[2501] You didn't notice anything out of the ordinary?

[2502] Alas!

[2503] And Pozzo? [2504] And Lucky?

[2505] Pozzo?

[2506] The bones.

[2507] They were like fishbones.

[2508] It was Pozzo gave them to you.

[2509] I don't know.

[2510] And the kick?

[2512] That's right, someone gave me a kick.

[2513] It was Lucky gave it to you.

[2514] And all that was yesterday?

[2515] Show your leg. ^{Rise to him}

[2516] Which?

[2517] Both. [2518] Pull up your trousers.

[2519] (ESTRAGON gives a ^LEFT leg to Vladimir, staggers. [2520] VLADIMIR takes the leg. [2521] They stagger)

[2522] Pull up your trousers!

[2524] I can't.

[2527] The other.

[2528] (ESTRAGON gives the same leg)

[2529] The other, pig!

[2530] (ESTRAGON gives the other leg. [2530|001] Triumphantly)

[2531] There's the wound! Beginning to fester! ^{xxx holds}

[2532] And what about it?

[2532|001] (Letting go the leg) [2533] Where are your boots?

[2534] I must have thrown them away.

[2535] When?

[2536] I don't know.

[2537] Why?

[2537|001] (Exasperated) [2538] I don't know why I don't know!

[2539] No, I mean why did you throw them away?

[2539|002] (Exasperated) [2540] Because they were hurting me!

[2541] (Triumphantly, pointing to the boots) [2542] There they are!

[2543] (ESTRAGON looks at the boots)

[2544] At the very spot where you left them yesterday!

[2546] They're not mine.

[2546|001] (Stupefied) [2547] Not yours! ^{X DC}

[2548] Mine were black. [2549] These are brown.

[2550] You're sure yours were black?

[2551] Well they were ^{a kind of} grey anyway.

[2552] And these are brown? [2553] Show.

[2554] (Picking up a boot) [2555] Well they're a kind of green.

[2556] (Advancing) [2557] Show.

[2558] (ESTRAGON hands him the boot. [2559] VLADIMIR inspects it, throws it down angrily)

[2560] Well of all the -

[2561] You see, all that's a lot of -^{bloody -.}

[2561|001] Ah! [2562] I see what it is. [2563] Yes, I see what's happened.

[2564] All that's a lot of -^{bloody -}

[2565] It's elementary. [2566] Someone came and took yours and left you his.

[2567] Why?

[2568] His were too tight for him, [2569] so he took yours.