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[3445] Exactly!

[3446] The two of you slipped. [3446|001] (pause) [3446|002] And fell.

[3447] Go and see is he hurt.

[3448] But we can't leave you.

[3449] You needn't both go.

[3450] (To Estragon) [3451] You go.

[3451|001] After what he did to me? [3451|002] Never!

[3452] Yes yes, let your friend go, [3453] he stinks so. [3479] ^{What is he waiting for?}

[3481] What are you waiting for?

[3482] I'm waiting for Godot.

[3482|001] (Silence)

[3488] What exactly should he do?

[3489] Well to begin with he should pull on the rope, as hard as he likes so long as he doesn't strangle him. [3490] He usually responds to that. [3491] If not he should give him a taste of his boot, in the face and the privates ^guts as far as possible.

[3492] (To Estragon) [3493] You see, you've nothing to be afraid of. [3494] It's even an opportunity to revenge yourself.

[3495] And if he defends himself?

[3496] No no, he never defends himself.

[3497] I'll come flying to the rescue.

[3498] Don't take your eyes off me. [3499] (he goes towards Lucky)

[3500] Make sure he's alive before you start. [3501] No point in exerting yourself if he's dead.

[3502] (Bending over Lucky) [3503] He's breathing.

[3504] Then let him have it.

[3509] Oh the brute! [3510] (he sits down on the mound and tries to take off his boots.[3511] But he soon desists and disposes himself for sleep, his arms on his knees and his head on his arms)

[3512] What's gone wrong now?

[3513] My friend has hurt himself.

[3514] And Lucky?

[3515] So it is he?

[3516] What?

[3517] It is Lucky?

[3518] I don't understand.

[3519] And you are Pozzo?

[3520] Certainly I am Pozzo.

[3521] The same as yesterday?

[3522] Yesterday?

[3523] We met yesterday. [3524] (silence) [3525] Do you not remember?

[3526] I don't remember having met anyone yesterday. [3527] But to-morrow I won't remember having met anyone to-day. [3528] So don't count on me to enlighten you.

[3528|001] But -

[3529] That's enough. Up pig!

[3530] You were bringing him to the fair to sell him. [3531] You spoke to us. [3532] He danced. [3533] He thought. [3534] You had your sight.

[3535] As you please. [3536] Let me go.

[3537] (VLADIMIR moves aside)

[3538] Up!

[3542] Where do you go from here?

[3543] I don't concern myself with that.

[3545] (Lucky, laden down, takes his place before Pozzo)

[3546] Whip!

[3547] (LUCKY puts everything down, looks for the whip, finds it, puts it into Pozzo's hand, takes up everything again)

[3548] Rope!

[3550] What is there in the bag?

[3551] Sand. [3552] (he jerks the rope) [3553] March!

[3574] Don't go yet!

[3575] I'm going.

[3576] What do you do when you fall far from help?

[3577] We wait till we can get up. [3578] Then we go on. [3578|001] March ^On!!

[3579] Before you go, tell him to sing! ^{X to R}

[3580] Who?

[3581] Lucky.

[3582] To sing?

[3583] Yes. [3584] Or to think. [3585] Or to recite.

[3586] But he's dumb.

[3587] Dumb!

[3588] Dumb. [3589] He can't even groan.

[3590] Dumb! [3591] Since when?

[3592] (Suddenly furious) [3593] Have you not done tormenting me with your ^accursed time? [3594] It's insensate ^abominable! [3595] When! [3596] When! [3597] One day, is that not enough for you, one day like any other day, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we'll die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you? [3598] (calmer) [3599] They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night again ^{once more}. [3600] (he jerks the rope) [3601] March! ^On!

[3607] (Wild gestures, incoherent words. [3608] Finally) [3609] Why will you never let me sleep?

[3610] I felt lonely. ^{X to barrel}

[3611] I was dreaming I was happy.

[3612] That passed the time.

[3613] I was dreaming that -

[3614] Don't tell me! [3615] (silence) ^Sit [3616] I wonder is he really blind.

[3617] Who?

[3620] Pozzo.

[3621] Blind?

[3622] He told us he was blind?

[3623] Well what about it?

[3624] It seemed to me he could see us.

[3625] You dreamt it. [3626] (pause) [3627] Let's go. [3628] We can't. [3629] Ah! [3630] (pause) [3631] Are you sure it wasn't him?

[3632] Who?

[3633] Godot.

[3634] But who?

[3635] Pozzo.

[3636] Not at all! [3637] Not at all! [3638] (pause) [3639] Not at all.

[3640] I suppose I might as well get up. [3641] (he gets up painfully) [3642] Ow! [3642|001] Didi!

[3643] I don't know what to think any more.

[3644] My feet! [3645] (he sits down, tries to take off his boots) [3646] Help me!

[3647] Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? [3648] Am I sleeping now? [3649] To-morrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of to-day? [3650] That with ^Estragon my friend, at this place, until the fall of night, I waited for Godot? [3651] That Pozzo passed, with his carrier, and talked to us? [3652] Probably. [3653] But in all that what truth will there be?