Estragon: What’s wrong with you?
Vladimir: Nothing.
Estragon: I’m going.
Vladimir: So am I.
Estragon: Was I long asleep?
Vladimir: I don’t know.
Estragon: Where shall we go?
Vladimir: Not far.
Estragon: Oh yes, let’s go far away from here.
Vladimir: We can’t.
Estragon: Why not?
Vladimir: We have to come back to-morrow.
Estragon: What for?
Vladimir: To wait for Godot.
Estragon: Ah! (silence) He didn’t come?
Vladimir: No.
Estragon: And now it’s too late.
Vladimir: Yes, now it’s night.
Estragon: And if we dropped him? (pause) if we dropped him?
Vladimir: He’d punish us. Everything’s dead but the tree.
Estragon: What is it?
Vladimir: It’s a tree.
Estragon: Yes, but what kind?
Vladimir: I don’t know. A willow.
Estragon: Why don’t we hang ourselves?
Vladimir: With what?
Estragon: You haven’t got a bit of rope?
Vladimir: No.
Estragon: Wait. There’s my belt.
Vladimir: It’s too short.
Estragon: You could hang on to my legs.
Vladimir: And who’d hang on to mine?
Estragon: True.
Vladimir: Show all the same. (Estragon lossens the rope and his trousers fall around his ankles. They look at the rope) It might do in a pinch. But is it strong enough?
Estragon: We’ll soon see. Here. (They each take an end and pull. It breaks. They stumble and almost fall.)
Vladimir: Not worth a curse.
Estragon: You say we have to come back to-morrow?
Vladimir: Yes.
Estragon: Then we can bring a good bit of rope.
Vladimir: Yes.
Estragon: Didi?
Vladimir: Yes.
Estragon: I can’t go on like this.
Vladimir: That’s what you think.
Estragon: If we parted? That might be better for us.
Vladimir: We’ll hang ourselves to-morrow. (pause) Unless Godot comes.
Estragon: And if he comes?
Vladimir: We’ll be saved.
Estragon: Well? Shall we go?
Vladimir: Pull on your trousers.
Estragon: What?
Vladimir: Pull on your trousers.
Estragon: You want me to pull off my trousers?
Vladimir: Pull ON your trousers.
Estragon: (realizing that they are down) True. (He pulls them up)
Vladimir: Well? Shall we go?
Estragon: Yes. Let’s go.
They do not move.
Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett