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But user, it sounds like something a half-intelligent undergrad could shit out in a drunken afternoon with no edits.

Not really. It is masterly crafted, and Beckett is one of the best architect-writers of the twentieth century.

I recommend you watch this video, and read it again, and then watch it, so that you can appreciate what it really is about.

youtube.com/watch?v=1ddsl5nPfAc

Watching the play is the most difficult part because it can become tiresome. I love Godot, it's one of my favorite works, but I prefer reading it than watching it. Alas, a play is meant to be watched, and it actually is quite illluminating to see it acted out. I recommend the "Beckett directs Beckett" version, it's on youtube in two parts.

This is the best shitpost I've seen all year :')

How is it a shitpost?

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surprisingly i agree totally with this.

>Watching the play is the most difficult part because it can become tiresome.
Well he was the protégé of the man who set out to write novels that tired their readers out and took it to the extreme.

Yes because causing the audience to hate your work is the way to make good art. You can get "life is pointless lmao" across without making people want to kill themselves from tedium.

make sense if you may haha le so quirky and absurd

Oh I see so just because you don't understand shit from what you read and you've heard that a piece is good literature, means that causing the audience to hate your work is the way to make good art. Well guess what faggot, some of us actually can read

Wow. Apparently DiSScERNING puZzlinG mAttErs in a book is a crucial aspect in the hypothetical enjoyment of literature. Good job there. Good work. Might as well upload your consciousness to a computer and solve rubik's cubes all day long you fucking sperg

SHEESH so enjoying stuff and having aesthetic value is the most important thing in life! Ok at least now we know! Might as well all develop Schizophrenia, then our lives will be fun and absurd, and non-schizophrenic, not unlike the characters in this guy's play! Haha!

I think you guys are vastly misreading what the author of this post meant to say. This is a common thing here apparently, which is why I've emailed Hiro several times about potentially establishing user accounts and registered nicknames so that a lot of fuzz can be avoided and generally you know who's who and what they think, like we already have over on Reddit. user, what I think this individual wanted to say was that yes, although we appreciate the possibility that life is pointless. it doesn't mean that the subject cannot be made so that it makes it's own point and not a pointless work of art itself. Yes, we love Samuel Beckett (albeit he did have some a bit problematic portrayals at times in his work), yes, we know that life is pointless-- and by the way, this is why many of us turn to art in the first place--but that doesn't mean that the artist who's trying to send that message cannot and shouldn't be entertaining. Be the solution to the problem which you've presented, Samuel. There are no limits to what one (or a collective, if you're a socialist-- didn't mean to trigger you) can achieve only if one/many employ a positive mindset to their life. We do not need more hate. Life is ugly and pointless and nasty as it is. We need more love! Love is art, and art is love. There are so many beautiful people creating art today, that we really don't need to create publicity for yet another person who thinks xe can at the same time enjoy absolute white male privilege, and be literally engorged in self-pity! Wow, get over yourself, right? We don't need your mentality. We are the children of the world.

Sorry for inserting myself into your discussion-- just don't want to see you guys fighting over such a small misunderstanding. Peace out! :)

I am writting a satirical novel about a satirical play and one of the main characters is Samuel Beckett an I am wondering if I can use this response word for word as something he says?

Not sure if you're being serious, but yes. That's essentially what I was saying. We can write about the misery and pointlessness of the world without being wholly miserably and pointless.

He's probably making fun of your argument, sweet, naive user.

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I assumed as much. I'm feeling pretty nihilistic too but there's no point in making yourself miserable all the damn time. There's enough of that in life.