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Forward! (Lucky totters forward.)
Back! (Lucky totters back.) Turn! (Lucky turns.) Done it! He can walk. (Turning to
Vladimir and Estragon.) Thank you, gentlemen, and let me . . . (he fumbles in his
pockets) . . . let me wish you . . . (fumbles) . . . wish you . . . (fumbles) . . . what
have I done with my watch? (Fumbles.) A genuine half-hunter, gentlemen, with
deadbeat escapement! (Sobbing.) Twas my granpa gave it to me! (He searches
on the ground, Vladimir and Estragon likewise. Pozzo turns over with his foot the
remains of Lucky's hat.) Well now isn't that just�
     
    VLADIMIR:
Perhaps it's in your fob.
     
    POZZO:
Wait! (He doubles up in an attempt to apply his ear to his stomach, listens.
Silence.) I hear nothing. (He beckons them to approach, Vladimir and Estragon
go over to him, bend over his stomach.) Surely one should hear the tick-tick.
     
    VLADIMIR:
Silence!
All listen, bent double.
     
    ESTRAGON:
I hear something.
     
    POZZO:
Where?
     
    VLADIMIR:
It's the heart.
     
    POZZO:
(disappointed). Damnation!
     
    VLADIMIR:
Silence!
     
    ESTRAGON:
Perhaps it has stopped.
They straighten up.
     
    POZZO:
Which of you smells so bad?
     
    ESTRAGON:
He has stinking breath and I have stinking feet.
     
    POZZO:
I must go.
     
    ESTRAGON:
And your half-hunter?
     
    POZZO:
I must have left it at the manor.
Silence.
     
    ESTRAGON:
Then adieu.
     
    POZZO:
Adieu.
     
    VLADIMIR:
Adieu.
     
    POZZO:
Adieu.
Silence. No one moves.
     
    VLADIMIR:
Adieu.
     
    POZZO:
Adieu.
     
    ESTRAGON:
Adieu.
Silence.
     
    POZZO:
And thank you.
     
    VLADIMIR:
Thank you.
     
    POZZO:
Not at all.
     
    ESTRAGON:
Yes yes.
     
    POZZO:
No no.
     
    VLADIMIR:
Yes yes.
     
    ESTRAGON:
No no.
Silence.
     
    POZZO:
I don't seem to be able . . . (long hesitation) . . . to depart.
     
    ESTRAGON:
Such is life.
Pozzo turns, moves away from Lucky towards the wings, paying out the rope as
he goes.
     
    VLADIMIR:
You're going the wrong way.
     
    POZZO:
I need a running start. (Having come to the end of the rope, i.e., off stage, he
stops, turns and cries.) Stand back! (Vladimir and Estragon stand back, look
towards Pozzo. Crack of whip.) On! On!
     
    ESTRAGON:
On!
     
    VLADIMIR:
On!
Lucky moves off.
     
    POZZO:
Faster! (He appears, crosses the stage preceded by Lucky. Vladimir and Estragon
wave their hats. Exit Lucky.) On! On! (On the point of disappearing in his turn he
stops and turns. The rope tautens. Noise of Lucky falling off.) Stool! (Vladimir
fetches stool and gives it to Pozzo who throws it to Lucky.) Adieu!
VLADIMIR and ESTRAGON:
(waving). Adieu! Adieu!
     
    POZZO:
Up! Pig! (Noise of Lucky getting up.) On! (Exit Pozzo.) Faster! On! Adieu! Pig! Yip!
Adieu!
Long silence.
     
    VLADIMIR:
That passed the time.
     
    ESTRAGON:
It would have passed in any case.
     
    VLADIMIR:
Yes, but not so rapidly.
Pause.
     
    ESTRAGON:
What do we do now?
     
    VLADIMIR:
I don't know.
     
    ESTRAGON:
Let's go.
     
    VLADIMIR:
We can't.
     
    ESTRAGON:
Why not?
     
    VLADIMIR:
We're waiting for Godot.
     
    ESTRAGON:
(despairingly). Ah!
Pause.
     
    VLADIMIR:
How they've changed!
     
    ESTRAGON:
Who?
     
    VLADIMIR:
Those two.
     
    ESTRAGON:
That's the idea, let's make a little conversation.
     
    VLADIMIR:
Haven't they?
     
    ESTRAGON:
What?
     
    VLADIMIR:
Changed.
     
    ESTRAGON:
Very likely. They all change. Only we can't.
     
    VLADIMIR:
Likely! It's certain. Didn't you see them?
     
    ESTRAGON:
I suppose I did. But I don't know them.
     
    VLADIMIR:
Yes you do know them.
     
    ESTRAGON:
No I don't know them.
     
    VLADIMIR:
We know them, I tell you. You forget everything. (Pause. To himself.) Unless
they're not the same . . .
     
    ESTRAGON:
Why didn't they recognize us then?
     
    VLADIMIR:
That means nothing. I too pretended not to recognize them. And then nobody
ever recognizes us.
     
    ESTRAGON:
Forget it. What we need� Ow! (Vladimir does not react.) Ow!
     
    VLADIMIR:
(to himself). Unless they're not the same . . .
     
    ESTRAGON: