By Samuel Beckett
From wikipedia: watching for Godot is a play by way of Samuel Beckett, during which characters look forward to anyone named Godot. Godot's absence, in addition to a variety of different facets of the play, have ended in many various interpretations because the play's optimal. Voted "the most important English language play of the twentieth century", awaiting Godot is Beckett's translation of his personal unique French model, En attendant Godot, and is subtitled (in English in simple terms) "a tragicomedy in acts". the unique French textual content used to be composed among October nine, 1948, and January 29, 1949. The optimum was once on five January 1953 within the Théâtre de Babylone.
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VLADIMIR: You want to get rid of him? POZZO: Remark that I might just as well have been in his shoes and he in mine. If chance had not willed otherwise. To each one his due. VLADIMIR: You waagerrim? POZZO: I beg your pardon? VLADIMIR: You want to get rid of him? POZZO: I do. But instead of driving him away as I might have done, I mean instead of simply kicking him out on his arse, in the goodness of my heart I am bringing him to the fair, where I hope to get a good price for him. The truth is you can't drive such creatures away.
You know how it is. ) But perhaps you don't smoke? Yes? No? It's of no importance. ) But how am I to sit down now, without affectation, now that I have risen? Without appearing to –how shall I say– without appearing to falter. ) I beg your pardon? ) Perhaps you didn't speak? ) It's of no importance. Let me see . . He reflects. ESTRAGON: Ah! That's better. He puts the bones in his pocket. VLADIMIR: Let's go. ESTRAGON: So soon? POZZO: One moment! ) Stool! (He points with his whip. ) More! There!
That's to say . . you understand . . the dusk . . the strain . . waiting . . I confess . . I imagined . . for a second . . POZZO: Waiting? So you were waiting for him? VLADIMIR: Well you see— POZZO: Here? On my land? VLADIMIR: We didn't intend any harm. ESTRAGON: We meant well. POZZO: The road is free to all. VLADIMIR: That's how we looked at it. POZZO: It's a disgrace. But there you are. ESTRAGON: Nothing we can do about it. POZZO: (with magnanimous gesture). Let's say no more about it.