Godot Dialogue

 

The sun is beginning to set as Estragon sits on a low mound fiddling with his boot

 

Vladimir:              What is it with you and your boot?

Estragon:              I’m taking it off.

Vladimir:              I can see that but why?

Estragon:              I’m going to bed

Vladimir:              Bed, what do you mean you’re going to bed?  You haven’t been to bed                                                       since……….well………..

Estragon:              I go to bed every night and every night I take off my boots and put them beside my bed.

Vladimir:              That ditch is not a bed.  Have you forgotten?  The feel of clean dry sheets, a plumped up                              pillow and the warmth a winter’s morning would steal from you if it were not for the                                  dying embers of a faithful fire.  Soggy mud and a few dried leaves are not a bed……and                              why would you want to take your boots off out here?  What if those men came back and                            beat you?  Or a boar comes shuffling by?  You’d want your boots on then.

Estragon:              It’s proper to take your boots off before getting into bed.  And socks if I had any.  That’s                              just the way it is.

 

Vladimir murmurs to himself: ‘That’s just the way it is. That’s just the way it is. Stupid fool.’

 

Vladimir:              You can’t go to bed yet anyway.

Estragon:             Why not?  I can if I want.

Vladimir:              You can’t go yet because we are waiting for Godot.  What if you fall asleep and we miss                              him?

Estragon:             Well you’re here, aren’t you?

Vladimir:              I remember hearing boots, stomping through the streets like a herd of buffalo breaking                              everything in their path.  Do you remember when they came?

Estragon:             When buffalo came?  No I don’t recall that.

Vladimir:              Not buffalo, you fool.

Estragon:             But you said buffalo.

Vladimir:              I know I said buffalo but I didn’t mean buffalo.

Estragon:             Then why did you say buffalo?

Vladimir:              Because they sounded like buffalo.

Estragon:             Who sounded like buffalo?

Vladimir:              They did, when they came.

Estragon:             When who came?  Do you mean Godot?  I didn’t hear him come.

Vladimir:              No, we are still waiting for Godot. 

Estragon:                 Do you think Godot will sound like buffalo?  I don’t think I would sleep through that.