
ESTRAGON) |
VLADIMIR |
[3265] He moved. |
ESTRAGON |
[3266] Are you sure his name is Pozzo? |
VLADIMIR |
[3267] (Alarmed) [3268] Mr. Pozzo! [3269] Come back! [3270] We won't touch you! |
[3271] (Silence)
ESTRAGON |
[3272] We might try him with other names. |
VLADIMIR |
[3273] I'm afraid he's dying. |
ESTRAGON |
[3274] It'd be amusing. |
VLADIMIR |
[3275] What'd be amusing? |
ESTRAGON |
[3276] To try him with other names, one after the other. [3277] That'd pass the time. [3278] And we'd be bound to hit on the right one sooner or later. |
VLADIMIR |
[3279] I tell you his name is Pozzo. |
ESTRAGON |
[3280] We'll soon see. [3282] (he reflects) [3283] Abel! [3284] Abel! |
POZZO |
[3285] Help! |
ESTRAGON |
[3286] Got it in one! |
VLADIMIR |
[3287] I begin to weary of this motif. |
ESTRAGON |
[3288] Perhaps the other is called Cain. [3289] (he calls) [3290] Cain! [3291] Cain! |
POZZO |
[3292] Help! |
ESTRAGON |
[3293] He's all mankind. [3294] (Silence) [3295] Look at the little cloud. |
VLADIMIR |
ESTRAGON |
[3298] There. In the zenith. |
VLADIMIR |
[3299] Well? [3300] (pause) [3301] What is there so |
[3302] (Silence)

ESTRAGON |
[3303] Let's pass on now to something else, do you mind? |
VLADIMIR |
[3304] I was just going to suggest it. |
ESTRAGON |
[3305] But to what? |
VLADIMIR |
[3306] |
[3307] (Silence)
ESTRAGON |
[3308] Suppose we got up to begin with? |
VLADIMIR |
[3309] No harm trying. |
[3310] (They get up)
ESTRAGON |
[3311] Child's play. |
VLADIMIR |
[3312] Simple question of will-power. |
ESTRAGON |
[3313] And now? |
POZZO |
[3314] Help! |
ESTRAGON |
[3315] Let's go. |
VLADIMIR |
[3316] We can't. |
ESTRAGON |
[3317] Why not? |
VLADIMIR |
[3318] We're waiting for Godot. |
ESTRAGON |
[3319] Ah! [3320] (Pause. Despairing) [3321] What'll we do, what'll we do! |
POZZO |
[3322] Help! |
VLADIMIR |
[3323] |
ESTRAGON |
[3324] What does he want? |
VLADIMIR |
[3325] He wants to get up. |
ESTRAGON |
[3326] Then why doesn't he? |
VLADIMIR |
[3327] He wants us to help him to get up. |
ESTRAGON |
[3330] (They help Pozzo to his feet, let him go. [3331] He falls)
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VLADIMIR |
[3332] We must hold him. |

[3333] (They get him up again. [3334] POZZO sags between them, his arms round their necks)
VLADIMIR |
[3335] He must get used to being erect again |
POZZO |
[3338] Who are you? |
VLADIMIR |
[3339] Do you not recognize us? |
POZZO |
[3340] I am blind. |
[3341] (Silence)
ESTRAGON |
[3342] Perhaps he can see into the future. |
VLADIMIR |
POZZO |
[3345] I used to have wonderful sight - but are you friends? |
ESTRAGON |
[3346] (Laughing noisily) [3347] He wants to know if we are friends! |
VLADIMIR |
[3348] No, he means friends of his. |
ESTRAGON |
[3349] Well? |
VLADIMIR |
[3350] We've proved we are, by helping him. |
ESTRAGON |
[3351] Exactly. [3352] Would we have helped him if we weren't his friends? |
VLADIMIR |
[3353] Possibly. |
ESTRAGON |
[3354] True. |
VLADIMIR |
[3355] Don't let's quibble about that now. |
POZZO |
[3356] You are not highwaymen? |
ESTRAGON |
VLADIMIR |
ESTRAGON |
[3361] Damn it, [3362] so he is. [3363] (pause) [3364] Or so he says. |
POZZO |
[3365] Don't leave me! |
VLADIMIR |
[3366] No question of it. |
ESTRAGON |
[3367] For the moment. |
POZZO |
[3368] What time is it? |

VLADIMIR |
[3369] (Inspecting the sky) [3371] Seven o'clock...[3372]eight o'clock... |
ESTRAGON |
[3373] That depends on the time of year |
POZZO |
[3374] Is it evening? |
[3375] (Silence. [3376] VLADIMIR and ESTRAGON scrutinize the sunset)
ESTRAGON |
[3377] It looks as if it was rising backwards. |
VLADIMIR |
[3378] Impossible. |
ESTRAGON |
[3379] Perhaps it's the dawn. |
VLADIMIR |
[3380] Don't |
ESTRAGON |
[3382] How do you know? |
POZZO |
VLADIMIR |
[3385] Anyway it hasn't moved. |
ESTRAGON |
[3386] I tell you it's rising. |
POZZO |
[3387] Why don't you answer? |
ESTRAGON |
[3388] Give us a chance! [3388|001] |
VLADIMIR |
[3389] (Reassuring) [3390] It's evening, Sir, it's evening, night is drawing nigh. [3391] My friend here would have me doubt it and I must confess he shook me for a moment. [3392] But it is not for nothing I have lived through this long day and I can assure you it is very near the end of its repertory. [3393] (pause) [3394] How do you feel now? |
ESTRAGON |
[3395] How much longer must we cart him round. [3396] (They half release him, catch him again as he falls) [3397] We are not caryatides! |
VLADIMIR |
[3398] You were saying that your sight used to be good, if I heard you right. |
POZZO |
[3399|001] |
[3400] (Silence)
ESTRAGON |
VLADIMIR |
[3404] Let him alone. [3405] Can't you see he's thinking of the days when he was happy? [3406] (pause) [3407] Memoria |

VLADIMIR |
[3407] praeteritorum bonorum - that must be unpleasant. |
ESTRAGON |
[3407|001] We wouldn't know. |
VLADIMIR |
[3407|002] (To Pozzo) [3409] And it came on you all of a sudden? |
POZZO |
[3410] Quite Wonderful |
VLADIMIR |
[3411] I'm asking you if it came on you all of a sudden. |
POZZO |
[3412] I woke up one fine day as blind as Fortune. [3413] (pause) [3414] Sometimes I wonder if I'm not still asleep. |
VLADIMIR |
[3415] When was that? |
POZZO |
[3416] I don't know. |
VLADIMIR |
[3417] But no later than yesterday - |
POZZO |
[3418] Don't question me. [3419] The blind have no notion of time. [3421] The things of time are hidden from them too. |
VLADIMIR |
[3422] Well just fancy that! [3423] I could have sworn it was the opposite. |
ESTRAGON |
[3424] I'm going. |
POZZO |
[3425] Where are we? |
VLADIMIR |
[3426] I couldn't tell you. |
POZZO |
[3427] It isn't by any chance the place known as the Board. |
VLADIMIR |
[3428] Never heard of it. |
POZZO |
[3429] What is it like? |
VLADIMIR |
[3430] (Looking round) [3431] You couldn't describe it. [3432] It's like nothing. [3433] There's nothing. [3434] There's a tree. |
POZZO |
[3435] Then it's not the Board. |
ESTRAGON |
POZZO |
[3438] Where is my menial? |
VLADIMIR |
[3439] He's about somewhere. |
POZZO |
[3440] Why doesn't he answer when I call? |
VLADIMIR |
[3441] I don't know. [3442] He seems to be sleeping. [3443] Perhaps he's dead. |
POZZO |
[3444] What happened exactly? |