 Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? Tomorrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of today? That with Estragon my friend, at this place, until the fall of night, I waited for Godot? That Pozzo passed, with his carrier,...  Das Motiv des Fegefeuers bei Samuel Beckett - Page 94by Stefanie Kraemer - 2004 - 204 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Enoch Brater - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 224 pages
...he hears it that he will refer to these lines again for us before the curtain comes down: VLADIMIR: Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping...night, I waited for Godot? That Pozzo passed, with his carrier, and that he spoke to us? Probably. But in all that what truth will there be? . . . Astride... | |
 | Kenneth Kramer - Family & Relationships - 1988 - 236 pages
...telling lines of the play, Vladimir penetrates toward the heart of his absurd predicament: VLADIMIR: Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping...night, I waited for Godot? That Pozzo passed, with his carrier, and that he spoke to us? Probably. But in all that what truth will there be? (Estragon, having... | |
 | Alan Astro - 1990 - 250 pages
...needs, falls asleep, Vladimir goes off on a philosophical disquisition about a spiritual kind of sleep: Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping...I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of to-day? [ . . . ] (He looks again at Estragon.) At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying,... | |
 | Kenneth Kramer, John S. Larkin - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1993 - 308 pages
...channel of our concern in this section? In the speech by Vladimir we just quoted. Vladimir remarks: Was I sleeping while the others suffered? Am I sleeping...To-morrow. when I wake. or think I do. what shall I say of to-day?16 Vladimir's uncertainty about the borderline between sleeping and waking is an uncertainty... | |
 | Lois Gordon - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 224 pages
...verification that his ordinary daily activities have meaning or, for that matter, have even occurred: "To-morrow when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of to-day? That ... I waited for Godot? . . . Probably." And of this, he adds, "What truth will there be?" Vladimir... | |
 | Tony Childs, Jackie Moore - English literature - 2003 - 166 pages
...think any more. ESTRAGON: My feet! [He sits down, tries to take off his boots.} Help me! VLADIMIR: Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping...night, I waited for Godot? That Pozzo passed, with his carrier, and that he spoke to us? Probably. But in all that what truth will there be? [Estragon, having... | |
 | Ahmad M. Kathrada - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 156 pages
...Hatred never dies; it only sleeps ... - HS Merriman, Barlasch of the Guard Was I sleeping while all the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? Tomorrow,...I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of today? ... In all that, what truth will then be? - Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (expressing the mood... | |
 | Alice Rayner - 244 pages
...and present as the waking one. Yet that return takes us to Vladimir's question in Waiting for Godot: "Was I sleeping while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? Tomorrow, when I wake, what shall I say of today?"13 From Vladimir's temporal perspective the "shadows" of the Dream are not... | |
 | Alexander Polikoff - Law - 2007 - 444 pages
...benefit of all Americans, Dorothy Gautreaux will have won again. PREFACE: A CHRISTIAN FOR THE LIONS To-morrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of to-day? — Vladimir (Waiting for Godot) January 20, 1976, dawned sunny but cold. A rare snow had laid a white... | |
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