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Waiting for Godot  ·  1952

Samuel Beckett

Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker describes a stagnant situation in which no event arrives and no one enters or leaves, then flatly calls it awful. The plain summary makes emptiness itself the complaint. Boredom and helpless stillness are treated as a kind of suffering rather than mere calm.

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