WAITING FOR GODOT

waiting for waiting for godot to get interesting. i'm just not existential or non-existential or whatever. i can't get into this kind of stuff. i know it's supposed to be revolutionary, but like kafka, conrad, etc - i just don't get the hooplah. i'm sorry. truly.

i'm halfway through this thin-ass book and i thought it'd be a great way to beef up my book count for 2007, having started this one 6 days before the new year. DOH. my genius plan has backfired.

i was wondering, why the pathetic number of books completed? and i was aghast to realize that it's because i've been on this darn computer so much. mind numbing net surfing. but OH the things we discover on the net. OH the things we discover. direct channels into the lives of others. it's actually a bit frightening.

anyway, i don't know when i'll finish reading this darn play. bah.

update: 1/18/08

i wonder if i would've figured this thing out had i not been guided by reading some brief reviews of it.

"...the whole human perplexity..." - The Times (London)

"...a comical wordplay of poetry, dreamscapes, and nonsense, which has been interpreted as a somber summation of mankind's inexhaustible search for meaning..." - Grove Press Books

so...i think i kinda get it. it's incredible, that feeling one gets when one's strength is challenged. i hardly excel in anything, and to be challenged about one of the very few things i actually believe i'm good at, well, it's disconcerting. but let me take a stab at this.

ESTRAGON = Eve
VLADIMIR = Adam
POZZO = the bad guy
LUCKY = Ignorance
A BOY = Hope

being unaware of beckett's background and beliefs, i could be way off. but somehow my bias towards Christianity leads me to a biblical interpretation of this allegory. the thieves, the cross, adam, cain, abel, the bible, God, and Christ were mentioned, so...

other (sub)semes & thymbols:

basic needs - hunger - food - the bones, the carrots, turnips, radishes - the garden - of eden - the barren landscape - the boots - the banishment - companionship - entertainment - the farting - the fighting - the awkward dancing - distraction - temptation - oppression - mental expression - mental exercise - physical exercise - spiritual exercise - spiritual needs - looking up at the sky - the hat - the void - time leaps and gaps - season changes evidenced by the unidentifiable tree of persevering life - night and day, of course

the boy calls vladimir, 'mr. albert'. why?

(is 'mr. albert' the unique name he is given, that only he knows, but he's not ready just yet?)

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now, it's your turn. Go.