
Waiting
Overthink
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i didn't know where to start when thinking about waiting, so i decided to read a text that is probably the most referenced in the philosophy of waiting. The play by samuel beckett, waiting for godo,. It has two acts, and you're waiting for something to happen, and nothing happens in the first one, andNothing happens in the second one. So it's these two guys waiting by a tree on a road for a character named godo. And what follows is just a dialogue that largely goes in circles, and that is very difficult to follow. You don't really learn anything about the kind of society that they live in. But the star of the play, of
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