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… my good angel … and now …
     he’s killing me.
    ESTRAGON: [ To   VLADIMIR .] Does he want to replace him?
    VLADIMIR: What?
    ESTRAGON: Does he want someone to take his place or not?
    VLADIMIR: I don’t think so.
    ESTRAGON: What?
    VLADIMIR: I don’t know.
    ESTRAGON: Ask him.
    POZZO: [ Calmer .]Gentlemen, I don’t know what came over me. Forgive me. Forget all I said. [ More and more his old self .]I don’t remember exactly what it was, but you may be sure there wasn’t a word of
     truth in it. [ Drawing himself up, striking his chest .]Do I look like a man that can be made to suffer? Frankly? [ He rummages in his pockets. ]What have I done with my pipe?
    VLADIMIR: Charming evening we’re having.
    ESTRAGON: Unforgettable.
    VLADIMIR: And it’s not over.
    ESTRAGON: Apparently not.
    VLADIMIR: It’s only beginning.
    ESTRAGON: It’s awful.
    VLADIMIR: Worse than the pantomime.
    ESTRAGON: The circus.
    VLADIMIR: The music-hall.
    ESTRAGON: The circus.
    POZZO: What can I have done with that briar?
    ESTRAGON: He’s a scream. He’s lost his dudeen.
[ Laughs noisily .]
    VLADIMIR: I’ll be back.
[ He hastens towards the wings .]
    ESTRAGON: End of the corridor, on the left.
    VLADIMIR: Keep my seat.
[ Exit   VLADIMIR .]
    POZZO: I’ve lost my Kapp and Peterson!
    ESTRAGON: [ Convulsed with merriment. ]He’ll be the death of me!
    POZZO: [ Looking up .]You didn’t by any chance see – [ He misses VLADIMIR .] Oh! He’s gone! Without saying good-bye ! How could he! He might have waited!
    ESTRAGON: He would have burst.
    POZZO: Oh! [ Pause .]Oh well then of course in that case …
    ESTRAGON: Come here.
    POZZO: What for?
    ESTRAGON: You’ll see.
    POZZO: You want me to get up?
    ESTRAGON: Quick! [ POZZO gets up and goes over beside ESTRAGON . ESTRAGON points off .]Look!
    POZZO: [ Having put on his glasses .]Oh I say!
    ESTRAGON: It’s all over.
[ Enter   VLADIMIR , sombre. He shoulders   LUCKY out of his way, kicks over the stool, comes and goes agitatedly .]
    POZZO: He’s not pleased.
    ESTRAGON: [ To VLADIMIR .] You missed a treat. Pity. [ VLADIMIR halts, straightens the stool, comes and goes, calmer .]
    POZZO: He subsides. [ Looking round .]Indeed all subsides. A great calm descends. [ Raising his hand .]Listen! Pan sleeps.
    VLADIMIR: Will night never come?
[ All three look at the sky .]
    POZZO: You don’t feel like going until it does?
    ESTRAGON: Well you see –
    POZZO: Why it’s very natural, very natural. I myself in your situation, if I had an appointment
     with a Godin … Godet… Godot … anyhow, you see who I mean, I’d wait till it was black night before I gave
     up. [ He looks at the stool .]I’d like very much to sit down, but I don’t quite know how to go about it.
    ESTRAGON: Could I be of any help?
    POZZO: If you asked me perhaps.
    ESTRAGON: What?
    POZZO: If you asked me to sit down.
    ESTRAGON: Would that be a help?
    POZZO: I fancy so.
    ESTRAGON: Here we go. Be seated, sir, I beg of you.
    POZZO: No, no, I wouldn’t think of it! [ Pause. Aside. ]Ask me again.
    ESTRAGON: Come come, take a seat, I beseech you, you’ll get pneumonia.
    POZZO: You really think so?
    ESTRAGON: Why it’s absolutely certain.
    POZZO: No doubt you are right. [ He sits down .]Done it again! [ Pause .]Thank you, dear fellow. [ He consults his watch .]But I must really be getting along, if I am to observe my schedule.
    VLADIMIR: Time has stopped.
    POZZO: [ Cuddling his watch to his ear. ]Don’t you believe it, sir, don’t you believe it. [ He puts his watch back in his pocket. ]Whatever you like, but not that.
    ESTRAGON: [
To
POZZO .] Everything seems black to him today.
    POZZO: Except the firmament! [ He laughs, pleased with this witticism .]But I see what it is, you are not from these parts, you don’t know what our twilights
     can do. Shall I tell you? [ Silence, ESTRAGON is fiddling with his boot again, VLADIMIR with his hat .]I can’t refuse you. [ Vaporizer .]A little attention, if you please. [ VLADIMIR   and  ESTRAGON