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Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
— Anthony Burgess • On Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot"
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An editorial interpretation.
A wretched gray Saturday becomes the image for life as a whole. The comparison gives existence the dull weight of a day that seems difficult to get through. Yet the final words insist on enduring it, without promising that it will become enjoyable.
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