clapping each other on the back. End of the embrace. Estragon, no longer supported, almost falls
.
ESTRAGON : What a day!
VLADIMIR : Who beat you? Tell me.
ESTRAGON : Another day done with.
VLADIMIR : Not yet.
ESTRAGON : For me itâs over and done with, no matter what happens. (
Silence
.) I heard you singing.
VLADIMIR : Thatâs right, I remember.
ESTRAGON : That finished me. I said to myself, Heâs all alone, he thinks Iâm gone for ever, and he sings.
VLADIMIR : One is not master of oneâs moods. All day Iâve felt in great form. (
Pause
.) I didnât get up in the night, not once!
ESTRAGON : (
sadly
). You see, you piss better when Iâm not there.
VLADIMIR : I missed you . . . and at the same time I was happy. Isnât that a queer thing?
ESTRAGON : (
shocked
). Happy?
VLADIMIR : Perhaps itâs not quite the right word.
ESTRAGON : And now?
VLADIMIR : Now? . . . (
Joyous
.) There you are again . . . (
Indifferent
.) There we are again . . . (
Gloomy
.) There I am again.
ESTRAGON : You see, you feel worse when Iâm with you. I feel better alone too.
VLADIMIR : (
vexed
). Then why do you always come crawling back?
ESTRAGON : I donât know.
VLADIMIR : No, but I do. Itâs because you donât know how to defend yourself. I wouldnât have let them beat you.
ESTRAGON : You couldnât have stopped them.
VLADIMIR : Why not?
ESTRAGON : There was ten of them.
VLADIMIR : No, I mean before they beat you. I would have stopped you from doing whatever it was you were doing.
ESTRAGON : I wasnât doing anything.
VLADIMIR : Then why did they beat you?
ESTRAGON : I donât know.
VLADIMIR : Ah no, Gogo, the truth is there are things escape you that donât escape me, you must feel it yourself.
ESTRAGON : I tell you I wasnât doing anything.
VLADIMIR : Perhaps you werenât. But itâs the way of doing it that counts, the way of doing it, if you want to go on living.
ESTRAGON : I wasnât doing anything.
VLADIMIR : You must be happy too, deep down, if you only knew it.
ESTRAGON : Happy about what?
VLADIMIR : To be back with me again.
ESTRAGON : Would you say so?
VLADIMIR : Say you are, even if itâs not true.
ESTRAGON : What am I to say?
VLADIMIR : Say, I am happy.
ESTRAGON : I am happy.
VLADIMIR : So am I.
ESTRAGON : So am I.
VLADIMIR : We are happy.
ESTRAGON : We are happy. (
Silence
.) What do we do now, now that we are happy?
VLADIMIR : Wait for Godot. (
Estragon groans. Silence
.)
Things have changed here since yesterday.
ESTRAGON : And if he doesnât come.
VLADIMIR : (
after a moment of bewilderment
). Weâll see when the time comes. (
Pause
.) I was saying that things have changed here since yesterday.
ESTRAGON : Everything oozes.
VLADIMIR : Look at the tree.
ESTRAGON : Itâs never the same pus from one second to the next.
VLADIMIR : The tree, look at the tree.
Estragon looks at the tree
.
ESTRAGON : Was it not there yesterday?
VLADIMIR : Yes of course it was there. Do you not remember?
We nearly hanged ourselves from it. But you wouldnât. Do you not remember?
ESTRAGON : You dreamt it.
VLADIMIR : Is it possible youâve forgotten already?
ESTRAGON : Thatâs the way I am. Either I forget immediately or I never forget.
VLADIMIR : And Pozzo and Lucky, have you forgotten them too?
ESTRAGON : Pozzo and Lucky?
VLADIMIR : Heâs forgotten everything!
ESTRAGON : I remember a lunatic who kicked the shins off me.
Then he played the fool.
VLADIMIR : That was Lucky.
ESTRAGON : I remember that. But when was it?
VLADIMIR : And his keeper, do you not remember him?
ESTRAGON : He gave me a bone.
VLADIMIR : That was Pozzo.
ESTRAGON : And all that was yesterday, you say?
VLADIMIR : Yes of course it was yesterday.
ESTRAGON : And here where we are now?
VLADIMIR : Where else do you think? Do you not recognize the place?
ESTRAGON : (
suddenly furious
). Recognize! What is there to
.
ESTRAGON : What a day!
VLADIMIR : Who beat you? Tell me.
ESTRAGON : Another day done with.
VLADIMIR : Not yet.
ESTRAGON : For me itâs over and done with, no matter what happens. (
Silence
.) I heard you singing.
VLADIMIR : Thatâs right, I remember.
ESTRAGON : That finished me. I said to myself, Heâs all alone, he thinks Iâm gone for ever, and he sings.
VLADIMIR : One is not master of oneâs moods. All day Iâve felt in great form. (
Pause
.) I didnât get up in the night, not once!
ESTRAGON : (
sadly
). You see, you piss better when Iâm not there.
VLADIMIR : I missed you . . . and at the same time I was happy. Isnât that a queer thing?
ESTRAGON : (
shocked
). Happy?
VLADIMIR : Perhaps itâs not quite the right word.
ESTRAGON : And now?
VLADIMIR : Now? . . . (
Joyous
.) There you are again . . . (
Indifferent
.) There we are again . . . (
Gloomy
.) There I am again.
ESTRAGON : You see, you feel worse when Iâm with you. I feel better alone too.
VLADIMIR : (
vexed
). Then why do you always come crawling back?
ESTRAGON : I donât know.
VLADIMIR : No, but I do. Itâs because you donât know how to defend yourself. I wouldnât have let them beat you.
ESTRAGON : You couldnât have stopped them.
VLADIMIR : Why not?
ESTRAGON : There was ten of them.
VLADIMIR : No, I mean before they beat you. I would have stopped you from doing whatever it was you were doing.
ESTRAGON : I wasnât doing anything.
VLADIMIR : Then why did they beat you?
ESTRAGON : I donât know.
VLADIMIR : Ah no, Gogo, the truth is there are things escape you that donât escape me, you must feel it yourself.
ESTRAGON : I tell you I wasnât doing anything.
VLADIMIR : Perhaps you werenât. But itâs the way of doing it that counts, the way of doing it, if you want to go on living.
ESTRAGON : I wasnât doing anything.
VLADIMIR : You must be happy too, deep down, if you only knew it.
ESTRAGON : Happy about what?
VLADIMIR : To be back with me again.
ESTRAGON : Would you say so?
VLADIMIR : Say you are, even if itâs not true.
ESTRAGON : What am I to say?
VLADIMIR : Say, I am happy.
ESTRAGON : I am happy.
VLADIMIR : So am I.
ESTRAGON : So am I.
VLADIMIR : We are happy.
ESTRAGON : We are happy. (
Silence
.) What do we do now, now that we are happy?
VLADIMIR : Wait for Godot. (
Estragon groans. Silence
.)
Things have changed here since yesterday.
ESTRAGON : And if he doesnât come.
VLADIMIR : (
after a moment of bewilderment
). Weâll see when the time comes. (
Pause
.) I was saying that things have changed here since yesterday.
ESTRAGON : Everything oozes.
VLADIMIR : Look at the tree.
ESTRAGON : Itâs never the same pus from one second to the next.
VLADIMIR : The tree, look at the tree.
Estragon looks at the tree
.
ESTRAGON : Was it not there yesterday?
VLADIMIR : Yes of course it was there. Do you not remember?
We nearly hanged ourselves from it. But you wouldnât. Do you not remember?
ESTRAGON : You dreamt it.
VLADIMIR : Is it possible youâve forgotten already?
ESTRAGON : Thatâs the way I am. Either I forget immediately or I never forget.
VLADIMIR : And Pozzo and Lucky, have you forgotten them too?
ESTRAGON : Pozzo and Lucky?
VLADIMIR : Heâs forgotten everything!
ESTRAGON : I remember a lunatic who kicked the shins off me.
Then he played the fool.
VLADIMIR : That was Lucky.
ESTRAGON : I remember that. But when was it?
VLADIMIR : And his keeper, do you not remember him?
ESTRAGON : He gave me a bone.
VLADIMIR : That was Pozzo.
ESTRAGON : And all that was yesterday, you say?
VLADIMIR : Yes of course it was yesterday.
ESTRAGON : And here where we are now?
VLADIMIR : Where else do you think? Do you not recognize the place?
ESTRAGON : (
suddenly furious
). Recognize! What is there to
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