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What the fuck did I just read?
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A Master peeice
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Waiting for Godot
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good shit.
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Who was Godot?
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>>7883300
digits confirm
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>>7883364
>>>/v/
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>>7883339
You are.
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worthless garbage like any of beckett's shit.
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>>7883294
Nothing.
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>>7883377
TRIPLE DUBS!

But you are wrong
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Pozzo
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>>7883339
Take a guess
>If you stop waiting, will you die?
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>>7883453
Are you saying hes a big guy
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>>7883457
I'm saying why does he wear the boots
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>>7883469
It would be extremely painful if he took them off.
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>>7883469
Chuckled heartily.

Now read Endgame.
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>>7883476
perhaps he was wondering why someone would put those on before jumping off the Eiffel tower
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>he thinks he likes Waiting for Godot, but can't explain precisely why

THE ULTIMATE PLEB LITMUS TEST
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>>7883560
Go on then, explain why you like Waiting for Godot
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>>7883368
i come from [s4s] in peace lad
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Read the title as "Waiting for God" and suddenly it all clicks. It's like how dog is god backwards, you know? They're waiting to be raptured, the two men are Christianity (Catholic and Protestant or maybe Catholic and Orthodox).

In other words it's garbage
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succ
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It's fine for a read and it's light-hearted, but fuck me it's not such a masterpiece as people say.
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>>7884822
I'm pretty sure I read that after the first performance, Beckett explicitly said to a friend of his that 'if that was the case, he would have said so' or something along those lines.
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>>7883871
>>7883560
i dont
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>>7883294
A play, you weirdo. What are you going to do next, sniff an operetta? Eat a short story?
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waitin 4 GOD-ot

heh I GET it now mom
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>>7884886
He was just trying to keep it mysterious. Also, death of the author.
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>>7883410
You didn't notice there were 2 triple dubs in a row. Work on your abduction then talk to me again.
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>>7884822
Godot is a mix between "god" in english and "Tod" which is german for death. There's also some french in there but i forgot. But man it's just supposed to signify existential absurdity.
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