by Adam B. Ferguson
An interesting quote that continues to stick in my mind as I read through the play each time —
POZZO:
He’s stopped crying. (To Estragon.) You have replaced him as it were. (Lyrically.)
The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep,
somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. (He laughs.) Let us
not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors.
(Pause.) Let us not speak well of it either. (Pause.) Let us not speak of it at all.
This quote is very philosophical and profound in its approach. I feel this quote and others like it made by Pozzo are contrasting to the rest of the text. A majority of the text is very simple and short wording, however, this is a stark opposite to all of that. It also speaks to the greater world around the characters instead of the immediate setting surrounding them. It makes it seem as if things like this encounter, this meeting, this constant waiting, happen on a continuous basis. The past present and future seem to be blurred together to create something much bigger and greater – life.