Free Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett Page B

It’s not enough.
    VLADIMIR : I wouldn’t go so far as that.
    ESTRAGON : You think it’s enough?
    VLADIMIR : No, I mean so far as to assert that I was weak in the head when I came into the world. But that is not the question.
    POZZO : Two hundred!
    VLADIMIR : We wait. We are bored. (
He throws up his hand
.)
    No, don’t protest, we are bored to death, there’s no denying it. Good. A diversion comes along and what do we do? We let it go to waste. Come, let’s get to work! (
He advances towards the heap, stops in his stride
.) In an instant all will vanish and we’ll be alone once more, in the midst of nothingness!
    He broods
.
    POZZO : Two hundred!
    VLADIMIR : We’re coming!
    He tries to pull Pozzo to his feet, fails, tries again, stumbles, falls, tries to get up, fails
.
    ESTRAGON : What’s the matter with you all?
    VLADIMIR : Help!
    ESTRAGON : I’m going.
    VLADIMIR : Don’t leave me! They’ll kill me!
    POZZO : Where am I?
    VLADIMIR : Gogo!
    POZZO : Help!
    VLADIMIR : Help!
    ESTRAGON : I’m going.
    VLADIMIR : Help me up first, then we’ll go together.
    ESTRAGON : You promise?
    VLADIMIR : I swear it!
    ESTRAGON : And we’ll never come back?
    VLADIMIR : Never!
    ESTRAGON : We’ll go to the Pyrenees.
    VLADIMIR : Wherever you like.
    ESTRAGON : I’ve always wanted to wander in the Pyrenees.
    VLADIMIR : You’ll wander in them.
    ESTRAGON : (
recoiling
). Who farted?
    VLADIMIR : Pozzo.
    POZZO : Here! Here! Pity!
    ESTRAGON : It’s revolting!
    VLADIMIR : Quick! Give me your hand!
    ESTRAGON : I’m going. (
Pause. Louder
.) I’m going.
    VLADIMIR : Well I suppose in the end I’ll get up by myself.
    (
He tries, fails
.) In the fullness of time.
    ESTRAGON : What’s the matter with you?
    VLADIMIR : Go to hell.
    ESTRAGON : Are you staying there?
    VLADIMIR : For the time being.
    ESTRAGON : Come on, get up, you’ll catch a chill.
    VLADIMIR : Don’t worry about me.
    ESTRAGON : Come on, Didi, don’t be pig-headed!
    He stretches out his hand which Vladimir makes haste to seize
.
    VLADIMIR : Pull!
    Estragon pulls, stumbles, falls. Long silence
.
    POZZO : Help!
    VLADIMIR : We’ve arrived.
    POZZO : Who are you?
    VLADIMIR : We are men.
    Silence
.
    ESTRAGON : Sweet mother earth!
    VLADIMIR : Can you get up?
    ESTRAGON : I don’t know.
    VLADIMIR : Try.
    ESTRAGON : Not now, not now.
    Silence
.
    POZZO: What happened?
    VLADIMIR : (
violently
). Will you stop it, you! Pest! He can think of nothing but himself!
    ESTRAGON : What about a little snooze?
    VLADIMIR : Did you hear him? He wants to know what happened!
    ESTRAGON : Don’t mind him. Sleep.
    Silence
.
    POZZO : Pity! Pity!
    ESTRAGON : (
with a start
). What is it?
    VLADIMIR : Were you asleep?
    ESTRAGON : I must have been.
    VLADIMIR : It’s this bastard Pozzo at it again.
    ESTRAGON : Make him stop it. Kick him in the crotch.
    VLADIMIR : (
striking Pozzo
). Will you stop it! Crablouse!
    (
Pozzo extricates himself with cries of pain and crawls away. He stops, saws the air blindly, calling for help. Vladimir, propped on his elbow,observes his retreat
.) He’s off! (
Pozzo collapses
.) He’s down!
    ESTRAGON : What do we do now?
    VLADIMIR : Perhaps I could crawl to him.
    ESTRAGON : Don’t leave me!
    VLADIMIR : Or I could call to him.
    ESTRAGON : Yes, call to him.
    VLADIMIR : Pozzo! (
Silence
.) Pozzo! (
Silence
.) No reply.
    ESTRAGON : Together.
    VLADIMIR : Pozzo! Pozzo!
    ESTRAGON:
    VLADIMIR : He moved.
    ESTRAGON : Are you sure his name is Pozzo?
    VLADIMIR : (
alarmed
). Mr. Pozzo! Come back! We won’t hurt you!
    Silence
.
    ESTRAGON : We might try him with other names.
    VLADIMIR : I’m afraid he’s dying.
    ESTRAGON : It’d be amusing.
    VLADIMIR : What’d be amusing?
    ESTRAGON : To try him with other names, one after the other.
    It’d pass the time. And we’d be bound to hit on the right one sooner or later.
    VLADIMIR : I tell you his name is Pozzo.
    ESTRAGON