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

[János Székely]

Yes, it's a pun on Sein und Zeit, Thierry Chervel (the founder) said once.

János

2008/6/23 Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>:

>  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 <http://www.signandsight.com/intodaysfeuilletons/1715.html>:
>
> 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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