Posted by Sigismund on January 22, 2010, at 18:56:13
In reply to Re: Chuang Tzu » Sigismund, posted by floatingbridge on January 22, 2010, at 18:01:18
At school they put on Waiting for Godot. I didn't have a clue what it was about. It seemed very boring. Now it cracks me up. One of the first groups to hear it was a group of prisoners, who were apparently able to grasp it. You might have thought I would have been able to, being in a boarding school, but maybe the native optimism of youth ruined it. How can you be so dense? For example
> What do we do now?
ESTRAGON:
Wait.
VLADIMIR:
Yes, but while waiting.
ESTRAGON:
What about hanging ourselves?
VLADIMIR:
Hmm. It'd give us an erection.
ESTRAGON:
(highly excited). An erection!
VLADIMIR:
With all that follows. Where it falls mandrakes grow. That's why they shriek when you pull them up. Did you not know that?
ESTRAGON:
Let's hang ourselves immediately!
VLADIMIR:
From a bough? (They go towards the tree.) I wouldn't trust it.
ESTRAGON:
We can always try.
VLADIMIR:
Go ahead.
ESTRAGON:
After you.
VLADIMIR:
No no, you first.
ESTRAGON:
Why me?
VLADIMIR:
You're lighter than I am.
ESTRAGON:
Just so!
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