MS-TCD-10730

[0045] When I think of it...all these years...but for me...
where would you be...[0046](Decisively.) [0047] You'd be nothing
more than a little heap of bones at the present minute,
no doubt about it.

[0049] And what of it?

[0050] (gloomily). [0051] It's too much for one man. [0052] (Pause. [0053] Cheer-
fully.) [0054] On the other what's the good of losing heart
now, that's what I say. [0055] We should have thought of it
when the world was young ^{a million years ago}, in the nineties.

[0056] Ah stop talking [0057] and help me off with this bloody thing.

[0058] Hand in hand from the top of the Eiffel Tower, among
the first. [0059] We were respectable in those days. [0060] Now it's
too late. [0061] They wouldn't even let us up. [0062] (Estragon tears
at his boot.) [0063] Whar^t are you doing?

[0064] Taking off my boot. [0065] Did that never happen to you?

[0066] Boots must be taken off every day, I'm tired telling
you that. [0067] Why don't you listen to me?

[0068] (feebly). [0069] Help me!

[0070] It hurts?

[0070|001] (angrily). [0071] Hurts! [0072] He wants to know if it hursts! ^hurts!

[0073] (angrily). [0074] No one ever suffers but you. [0075] I don't count.
[0077] I'd like to hear what you'd say [0076] if you had what I have.

[0078] It hurts?

[0078|001] (angrily). [0079] Hurts! [0080] He wants to know if it hurts!

[0081] (pointing). [0082] You might button it all the same.

[0083] (stooping). [0084] True. [0085] (He buttons his fly.) [0086] Never neglect
the little things of life.

[0087] What do you expect, you always wait till the last
moment.

[0088] (musingly). [0089] The last moment... [0090] (He meditates.) [0091] Hope
deferred maketh the something sick, [0092] who said that?

[0093] Wy^hy don't you halp me?