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Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Waiting for Heidegger

Act one ends:

Estragon: Well, shall we go?Vladimir: Yes, let's go.
(They do not move.)

Act two ends:

Vladimir: Well? Shall we go?Estragon: Yes, let's go.
(They do not move.)

E: Let's go.
V: We can't.
E: Why not?
V: We're waiting for Godot
V: Moron!
E: Vermin!
V: Abortion!
E: Morpion!
V: Sewer-rat!
E: Curate!
V: Cretin!
E: (with finality) Crritic!
V: Oh!

(He wilts, vanquished, and turns away.)

Vladimir and Estragon are never quite in-the-world, but on the periphery, the edge, the outside (in) of the world. In and out at the same time, simultaneously, yet neither one nor the other, a blank Lacanian slate, the Heideggerian ontological misstep. The Heideggerain circle has neither a beginning nor an end (Derrida showed us that) but an infinite number, or juncture of jumping-in point(s): ontological hopscotch. A being-there, a being-amidst, a being-with, a being-in, a being-in-the-world, a coping-in-being-in-the-world, Being-out, never in. Moron! Vermin! Abortion! Morpion! Sewer-rat! Curate! Cretin! Critic! Oh!

1 Comments:

At 10:36 PM, Blogger Unknown said...

Oh dear god.

 

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