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

ESTRAGON:
I'm going.
He does not move.
VLADIMIR:
And yet . . . (pause) . . . how is it -this is not boring you I hope- how
is it that of the four Evangelists only one speaks of a thief being saved.
The four of them were there -or thereabouts- and only one speaks of a
thief being saved. (Pause.) Come on, Didi, return the ball, can't you,
once in a while?
ESTRAGON:
(with exaggerated enthusiasm). I find this really most extraordinarily
interesting._
VLADIMIR:
One out of four. Of the other three two don't mention any thieves at all
and the third says that both of them abused him.
ESTRAGON:
Who?
VLADIMIR:
What?
ESTRAGON:
What's all this about? Abused who?
VLADIMIR:
The Saviour.
ESTRAGON:
Why?
VLADIMIR:
Because he wouldn't save them.
ESTRAGON:
From hell?
VLADIMIR:
Imbecile! From death.
ESTRAGON:
I thought you said hell.
VLADIMIR:
From death, from death.
ESTRAGON:
Well what of it?
VLADIMIR:
Then the two of them must have been damned.
ESTRAGON:
And why not?
VLADIMIR:
But one of the four says that one of the two was saved.
ESTRAGON:
Well? They don't agree and that's all there is to it.
VLADIMIR:
But all four were there. And only one speaks of a thief being saved. Why
believe him rather than the others?
ESTRAGON:
Who believes him?