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Waiting for Godot simply pulls the effect of waiting away from all the reasons for waiting, in literary symbolic style. The poetic fun is to restructure all the reasons from the mere effects.
“Roles, Masks, Performances.” New Literary History, Vol. II, No. 3, Spring, 1971, p 520
Year: 1971
Chapter: Effect
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