tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10178279.post4428089254719188574..comments2024-03-28T05:13:13.921-04:00Comments on Books, Inq. — The Epilogue: Impregnable ...Frank Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18410473158808750903noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10178279.post-5634033785886871592010-04-21T11:53:15.521-04:002010-04-21T11:53:15.521-04:00I tend to agree. I tend to view Beckett as a wound...I tend to agree. I tend to view Beckett as a wounded agnostic, perhaps sensing Something Larger out there, some Mystery, but unable to accept any conventional human-made definitions or forms of faith. I can understand that, as I often share that viewpoint. <br /><br />Beckett was on the cusp of the historical period in which all the old maps were proven to be invalid, but there weren't any new maps as yet to replace them. I think we're still on that cusp, actually—which is why the infighting has gotten so fierce.Art Durkeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07463180236975988432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10178279.post-42814462547672651112010-04-21T10:20:03.001-04:002010-04-21T10:20:03.001-04:00Well, Frank, my reading of WAITING FOR GODOT persu...Well, Frank, my reading of WAITING FOR GODOT persuades me that Beckett may have rejected fixed ideologies (i.e., conventions and doctrines of religions) but he was very much concerned with the vague (perhaps remote) possibilities of the legitimacy of faith in something or someone beyond an observable existence. Beckett, like his characters in GODOT, was indeed--like the rest of us in life--simply waiting. And waiting, after all, is not the same thing is denial.R/Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07791522136032565027noreply@blogger.com