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Vladimir |
[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. |
Estragon |
[0049] And what of it? |
Vladimir |
[0050] (gloomily). [0051] It's too much for one man. [0052] (Pause. [0053] Cheerfully.)
[0054] On the other what's the good of losing heart now, that's what I say. [0055] We should have thought of it |
Estragon |
[0056] Ah stop talking [0057] and help me off with this bloody thing. |
Vladimir |
[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] Wha |
Estragon |
[0064] Taking off my boot. [0065] Did that never happen to you? |
Vladimir |
[0066] Boots must be taken off every day, I'm tired telling you that. [0067] Why don't you listen to me? |
Estragon |
Vladimir |
[0070] It hurts? |
Estragon |
[0070|001] (angrily). [0071] Hurts! [0072] He wants to know if it |
Vladimir |
[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. |
Estragon |
[0078] It hurts? |
Vladimir |
[0078|001] (angrily). [0079] Hurts! [0080] He wants to know if it hurts! |
Estragon |
Vladimir |
[0083] (stooping). [0084] True. [0085] (He buttons his fly.) [0086] Never neglect the little things of life. |
Estragon |
[0087] What do you expect, you always wait till the last moment. |
Vladimir |
[0088] (musingly). [0089] The last moment... [0090] (He meditates.) [0091] Hope deferred maketh the something sick, [0092] who said that? |
Estragon |
[0093] W |

Vladimir |
[0094] Sometimes I feel it coming all the same. [0095] Then I go all queer. [0096] (He takes off his hat, peers inside it, feels about inside it, shakes it, puts it on again.) [0097] How shall I say? [0098] Relieved and at the same time... (he searches for the word)... |
Estragon |
[0108] Nothing. |
Vladimir |
[0109] Show. |
Estragon |
[0110] There's nothing to show. |
Vladimir |
[0111] Try and put it on again. |
Estragon |
Vladimir |
[0114] There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet. [0115] (He takes off his hat again, peers inside it, feels about inside it, knocks on the crown, blows into it, puts it on again.) [0116] This is getting alarming. [0117] (Silence. [0118] Vladimir deep in thought, |
Estragon |
[0124] What? |
Vladimir |
[0125] Suppose we repented. |
Estragon |
[0126] Repented what? |
Vladimir |
[0127] Oh...[0128](He reflects.) [0129] We wouldn't have to go |
Estragon |
[0130] Our being born? |
[0131] Vladimir breaks into a hearty laugh which he immediately stifles, his hand pressed to his pubis, his face contorted.
Vladimir |
[0132] One daren't even laugh any more. |
Estragon |
[0133] Dreadful privation. |

Vladimir |
[0134] Merely smile. [0135] (He smiles suddenly from ear to ear, keeps smiling, ceases as suddenly.) [0136] It's not the same thing. [0137] Nothing to be done. [0138] (Pause.) [0139] Gogo. |
Estragon |
Vladimir |
[0142] Did you ever read the Bible? |
Estragon |
[0143] The Bible...[0144](He reflects.) [0145] I must have taken a look at it. |
Vladimir |
[0145|001] Do you remember the Gospels? |
Estragon |
[0151] I remember the maps of the Holy Land. [0152] Coloured they were. [0153] Very pretty. [0154] The Dead Sea was pale blue. [0155] The very look of it made me thirsty. [0156] That's where we'll go, I used to sa |
Vladimir |
[0159] You should have been a poet. |
Estragon |
[0160] I was. [0161] (Gesture towards his rags.) [0162] Isn't that obvious? |
[0163] Silence.
Vladimir |
Estragon |
[0166] Swelling visibly. |
Vladimir |
[0167] Ah yes, the two thieves. [0168] Do you remember the story? |
Estragon |
[0169] No. |
Vladimir |
[0170] Shall I tell it to you? |
Estragon |
[0171] No. |
Vladimir |
[0172] It'll pass the time. [0173] (Pause.) [0174] Two thieves, crucified at the same time as our Saviour. [0175] One - |
Estragon |
[0176] Our what? |
Vladimir |
[0177] Our Saviour. [0178] Two thieves. [0179] One is supposed to have been saved and the other...(he searches for the |
Estragon |
[0180] Saved from what? |
Vladimir |
[0181] Hell. |

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[0182] I'm going. |
[0183] He does not move.
Vladimir |
[0184] And yet...[0185](pause)[0186]...how is it -[0187] this is not boring you I hope -[0189] how is it that of the four Evangelists only one speaks of a thief being saved. [0190] The four of them were there - or thereabouts -[0191] and only one speaks of a thief being saved. [0192] (Pause.) [0193] Come on, Didi, return the ball, can't you, once in a way? |
Estragon |
[0193|001] (with exaggerated enthusiasm). [0194] I find this really most extraordinarily interesting. |
Vladimir |
[0195] One out of four. [0196] Of the other three two don't mention any thieves at all and the third says that both of them abused him. |
Estragon |
[0197] Who? |
Vladimir |
[0198] What? |
Estragon |
[0199] What's all this about? [0200] (Pause.) [0201] Abused who? |
Vladimir |
[0202] The Saviour. |
Estragon |
[0203] Why? |
Vladimir |
[0204] Because he wouldn't save them. |
Estragon |
[0205] From hell? |
Vladimir |
Estragon |
[0207|001] I thought you said hell. |
Vladimir |
[0207|002] From death, from death. |
Estragon |
[0208] Well what of it? |
Vladimir |
[0209] Then the two of them must have been damned. |
Estragon |
[0210] And why not? |
Vladimir |
[0211] But one of the four says that one of the two was saved. |
Estragon |
[0212] Well? [0213] They don't agree and that's all there is to it. |
Vladimir |
[0214] But all four were there. [0215] And only one speaks of a thief being saved. [0216] Why believe him rather than the others? |

Estragon |
[0217] Who believes him? |
Vladimir |
Estragon |
[0220] People are bloody |
[0221] He rises painfully, goes limping to extreme left, halts, gazes into distance off with his hand screening his eyes, turns, goes to extreme right, gazes into distance. [0222] Vladimir watches him, then goes and picks up the boot, peers into it, drops it hastily.
Vladimir |
[0223] Pah! |
[0224] He spits. [0225] Estragon moves to centre, halts with his back to auditorium.
Estragon |
[0226] Charming spot. [0227] (He turns, advances to front, hal |
Vladimir |
[0231] We can't. |
Estragon |
[0232] Why not? |
Vladimir |
[0233] We're waiting for Godot. |
Estragon |
[0233|001] (despairingly). [0234] Ah! [0235] (Pause.) [0236] You're s |
Vladimir |
[0237] What? |
Estragon |
[0238] That we were to wait. |
Vladimir |
[0239] He said by the tree. [0240] (They look at the tree.) [0241] Do you see any others. |
Estragon |
[0242] What is it? |
Vladimir |
[0242|001] I don't know. [0243] A willow. |
Estragon |
[0244] Where are the leaves? |
Vladimir |
[0245] It must be dead. |
Estragon |
[0246] No more weeping. |
Vladimir |
[0247] Or perhaps it's not the season. |
Estragon |
[0248] Looks to me more like a bush. |
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