Pull off boots. It is evening. […] He can find his own way now, in the dark. A tree. Both Gogo and Didi are literally 'on the road' and are tramps as well. Nothing to be done. / Evening. Evening. “On the night of 6 January 1938, Samuel Beckett was stabbed in the chest by a French pimp named Robert-Jules Prudent while walking home with friends. Where Baker excels, however, is in immersing her readers in the atmosphere of the time. Estragon, sitting on a low mound, is trying to take off his boot. Even more intertextually, whole episodes from Godot are lifted and exploited afresh, most blatantly when Beckett and Suzanne are trying to cross the Demarcation Line separating German-controlled France from the unoccupied zone (pp. //