"Samuel Beckett "Waiting for Godot" (tragicomedy in 2 acts)" - читать интересную книгу автора

truth is you can't drive such creatures away. The best thing would be to
kill them.
Lucky weeps.
ESTRAGON:
He's crying!
POZZO:
Old dogs have more dignity. (He proffers his handkerchief to Estragon.)
Comfort him, since you pity him. (Estragon hesitates.) Come on. (Estragon
takes the handkerchief.) Wipe away his tears, he'll feel less forsaken.
Estragon hesitates.
VLADIMIR:
Here, give it to me, I'll do it.
Estragon refuses to give the handkerchief.
Childish gestures.
POZZO:
Make haste, before he stops. (Estragon approaches Lucky and makes to wipe
his eyes. Lucky kicks him violently in the shins. Estragon drops the
handkerchief, recoils, staggers about the stage howling with pain.) Hanky!
Lucky puts down bag and basket, picks up handkerchief and gives it to
Pozzo, goes back to his place, picks up bag and basket.
ESTRAGON:
Oh the swine! (He pulls up the leg of his trousers.) He's crippled me!
POZZO:
I told you he didn't like strangers.
VLADIMIR:
(to Estragon). Show me. (Estragon shows his leg. To Pozzo, angrily.) He's
bleeding!
POZZO:
It's a good sign.
ESTRAGON:
(on one leg). I'll never walk again!
VLADIMIR:
(tenderly). I'll carry you. (Pause.) If necessary.
POZZO:
He's stopped crying. (To Estragon.) You have replaced him as it were.
(Lyrically.) The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one
who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the
laugh. (He laughs.) Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not
any unhappier than its predecessors. (Pause.) Let us not speak well of it
either. (Pause.) Let us not speak of it at all. (Pause. Judiciously.) It
is true the population has increased.
VLADIMIR:
Try and walk.
Estragon takes a few limping steps, stops before Lucky and spits on him,
then goes and sits down on the mound.
POZZO:
Guess who taught me all these beautiful things. (Pause. Pointing to
Lucky.) My Lucky!
VLADIMIR:
(looking at the sky.) Will night never come?