The Complete Dramatic Works

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Authors: Samuel Beckett
and   ESTRAGON move away from  LUCKY , POZZO jerks the rope,   LUCKY looks at   POZZO .] Think, pig! [ Pause,   LUCKY begins to dance. ] Stop! [ LUCKY stops .] Forward! [ LUCKY advances .]Stop! [ LUCKY stops .]Think!
[ Silence .]
    LUCKY: On the other hand with regard to –
    POZZO: Stop! [ LUCKY stops. ]Back! [ LUCKY moves back .] Stop! [ LUCKY stops .]Turn! [ LUCKY turns towards auditorium .]Think!
[ During LUCKY ’
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tirade the others react as follows: (1)  VLADIMIR and  ESTRAGON all attention,   POZZO dejected and disgusted. (2) VLADIMIR and   ESTRAGON begin to protest,   POZZO ’
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sufferings increase. (3) VLADIMIR and   ESTRAGON attentive again,   POZZO more and more agitated and groaning. (4) VLADIMIR and   ESTRAGON   protest violently.  POZZO jumps up, pulls on the rope. General outcry.   LUCKY pulls on the rope, staggers, shouts his text. All three throw themselves on   LUCKY who struggles and shouts his text .]
    LUCKY: Given the existence as uttered forth in the public works of Puncher and Wattmann
     of a personal God quaquaquaqua with white beard quaquaquaqua outside time without
     extension who from the heights of divine apathia divine athambia divine aphasia loves
     us dearly with some exceptions for reasons unknown but time will tell and suffers
     like the divine Miranda with those who for reasons unknown but time will tell are
     plunged in torment plunged in fire whose fire flames if that continues and who can
     doubt it will fire the firmament that is to say blast hell to heaven so blue still
     and calm so calm with a calm which even though intermittent is better than nothing
     but not so fast and considering what is more that as a result of the labours left
     unfinished crowned by the Acacacacademy of Anthropopopometry of Essy-in-Possy of Testew
     and Cunard it is established beyond all doubt all other doubt than that which clings
     to the labours of men that as a result of the labours unfinished of Testew and Cunard
     it is established as hereinafter but not so fast for reasons unknown that as a result
     of the public works of Puncher and Wattmann it is established beyond all doubt that
     in view of the labours of Fartov and Belcher left unfinished for reasons unknown of
     Testew and Cunard left unfinished it is established what many deny that man in Possy
     of Testew and Cunard that man in Essy that man in short that man in brief in spite
     of the strides of alimentation and defecation is seen to waste and pine waste and
     pine and concurrently simultaneously what is more for reasons unknown in spite of
     the strides of physical culture the practice of sports such as tennis football running
     cycling swimming flying floating riding gliding conating camogie skating tennis of
     all kinds dying flying sports of all sorts autumn summer winter winter tennis of all
     kinds hockey of all sorts penicillin andsuccedanea in a word I resume and concurrently simultaneously for reasons unknown
     to shrink and dwindle in spite of the tennis I resume flying gliding golf over nine
     and eighteen holes tennis of all sorts in a word for reasons unknown in Feckham Peckham
     Fulham Clapham namely concurrently simultaneously what is more for reasons unknown
     but time will tell to shrink and dwindle I resume Fulham Clapham in a word the dead
     loss per caput since the death of Bishop Berkeley being to the tune of one inch four
     ounce per caput approximately by and large more or less to the nearest decimal good
     measure round figures stark naked in the stockinged feet in Connemara in a word for
     reasons unknown no matter what matter the facts are there and considering what is
     more much more grave that in the light of the labours lost of Steinweg and Peterman
     it appears what is more much more grave that in the light the light the light of the
     labours lost of Steinweg and Peterman that in the plains in the mountains by the seas
     by the rivers running water running fire the air is the same and then the

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