A New Low
I realize that "Waiting for the Goal," requiring as it does knowledge of both soccer/football and the works of Samuel Beckett, now replaces penis euphemisms haiku as the most obscure thing I've ever written. Once again, it is clear that there is no bar I can't crawl under.To my credit, though, I've now watched the last fourteen World Cup matches IN A ROW.
Here's the freaky thing: that really IS Waiting for Godot. Yes, I did some editing and made some very minor changes, but I didn't need to do much--soccer fits in perfectly. Who would have ever thought that Waiting for Godot is not a meditation on existence, but on The Beautiful Game?
Not convinced? Look at this from Wikipedia:
As a proper noun, the name "Godot" may derive from any number of French verbs, and Beckett stated it might be a derivative of godillot, which is French slang for "boot". The title, in this interpretation, could be seen as suggesting that the characters are "waiting for the boot".
Indeed.
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