Word: enigma
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Personally, I feel the solution to the "enigma" of this play, or of modern music or painting, lies mainly in one thing: familiarity. No work that gives everything it has to offer on first acquaintance can be a candidate for immortality. People are still arguing about the meaning of Oedipus Rex and Hamlet--and these both can be legitimately regarded in all sorts of ways, from a first-rate detective story on up. The same is true of Godot; familiarity yields ever-increasing insights. One sees that the four main roles represent humanity ("All mankind is us"). Beckett presents them...
...been considered that some souls who are convinced to attend church by the first seventeen bongs may change their minds after the excessive repetition of the argument which the remaining 109 bongs constitute? Freshman Committee for Resolution of the Mem Church Bell Enigma...
...because they run the big corporations, think they ought to run the country." Again and again he cried: "It is time to take the government away from General Motors and give it back to Joe Smith." But somewhere beneath his genteel belligerency there still lurked the elements of the enigma of 1952. "The tide is rising," said he in Newark, after a day of small and disappointing crowds in Democratic sections of New Jersey. "I only hope...
...title of the film is a slight enigma, since the horse is very much alive for the major portion of the story, and in the end seems unlikely to return to earth in any shape or form. This may be the fault of the translation, though...
...rebels in 1936, and, characteristically, to live just long enough to regret it. "He alone is truly wise who is conscious of his madness," he said in a lecture at Oxford. "I am conscious of my madness; therefore I am truly wise." Thus he lived and performed, an honored enigma. At one time, his work and his person seemed to have the embroidered smile of a saint on a religious banner; at another, the proud sneer of a Spanish beggar...