mongombolo's - curious child thursday, page-61

I've just been rereading "Waiting for Godot". (Much more interesting than the stock market at the moment.)

The ironies and coincidences as they relate to the moment are incredible, The two characters are Vladimir and Estragon. Change Vladimir to Germany:

VLADIMIR:
When I think of it . . . all these years . . . but for me . . . where would you be . . . (Decisively.) You'd be nothing more than a little heap of bones at the present minute, no doubt about it.
ESTRAGON:
And what of it?
VLADIMIR:
(gloomily). It's too much for one man. (Pause. Cheerfully.) On the other hand what's the good of losing heart now, that's what I say. We should have thought of it a million years ago, in the nineties.

hmmmm

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