C of L49 and Waiting for Godot OR on reducing a work of art to literalness....

[Mark Kohut]

A French schoolteacher has cracked Samuel "Morse" Beckett's secret message wide open. According to an article from Die Welt quoted at Sign and Sight:


Godot, whom Vladimir and Estragon are waiting for, is a Resistance smuggler, who is supposed to smuggle them out of occupied France into the Italian zone. The two of them are Jews on the run who come from Paris' 11 arrondissement. They are probably waiting to be rescued in the spring of 1943 on the dry, limestone heights of the Southern Alps, somewhere like the Plateau de Valensole. All of this is clearly indicated in the play - at least in the original French text.
This goes on the same list as the theory that he Crying of Lot 49 is actually all about the JFK assassination. I'd rather not review the evidence, thanks.

By the way, I've always assumed that S&S's name was a riff on Heidegger, and that at some point I would get the joke. It has been quite a while now. 



      
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