Criticism: The VERY Early Years

VLADIMIR: Moron!
ESTRAGON: Vermin!
VLADIMIR: Abortion!
ESTRAGON: Morpion!
VLADIMIR: Sewer-rat!
ESTRAGON: Curate!
VLADIMIR: Cretin!
ESTRAGON (with finality): Critic!
VLADIMIR: Oh!
He wilts, vanquished, and turns away.


--Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot