Word: estragon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WAITING FOR GODOT is about immobility. Vladimir and Estragon sit in a place which is essentally nowhere; they entertain or bore one another; they sit. Like the street people who haunt the Square because there's no place for them to go, Vladimir and Estragon have internalized inevitability of inactivity. "Nothing to be done," when incanted as often as a mantra, can be cerily comforting. The dilemma of two tramps, waiting for a man who will not come, is our dilemma, too. And we remain waiting because the possibility of meaning, or of reason, or of order, is so seductive...
...Estragon: Why don't we hang ourselves...
...Estragon: You say we have to come back tomorrow...
...Estragon: I can't go on like this...