COL49 _Courier's Tragedy_
Thomas Eckhardt
thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de
Sun Aug 19 03:19:16 CDT 2001
jbor wrote:
> We don't know if Godot rocks up with shovels and pick-axes and medical
> insurance forms for Vlad. and Est. five minutes after the play is finished
> either. As a reader/spectator I was left with much the same sense of
> uncertainty and unease afterwards
Uncertainty, unease, indeterminacy, yes. But I did not get the impression that
there was ever going to be any significant change in Vladimir's and Estragon's
world, neither five minutes nor a hundred years after the action of the play is
finished.
Vladimir: Well? Shall we go?
Estragon: Yes, let's go.
They do not move.
When we are reading the final sentence of COL49 significant change is just a
delta-t away. I believe this is an important difference.
Regards,
Thomas
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