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On Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot"

Anthony Burgess

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.

Behind the line

What it means

Our 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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