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" Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave-digger puts on the forceps. "
Levitating the Pentagon: Evolutions in the American Theatre of the Vietnam ... - Page 153
by Jeffery W. Fenn - 1992 - 289 pages
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Six Dramatists in Search of a Language: Studies in Dramatic Language

Andrew K. Kennedy - Drama - 1975 - 294 pages
...when, a little later, Vladim1r echoes Pozzo's lyrical phrase and 'embro1ders' it in a kindred style: Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave-d1gger puts on the forceps. We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cr1es. (He listens.)...
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The Transformations of Godot

Frederick Busi - Social Science - 1980 - 172 pages
...too rapidly merging with the future, the two existing simultaneously. Thus Didi laments at the end: "Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down in...lingeringly, the grave-digger puts on the forceps. We have time to grow old" (p. 58). 5 This kind of present conveys the apprehension of the void, like...
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Beyond Minimalism: Beckett's Late Style in the Theater

Enoch Brater - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 224 pages
...with his carrier, and that he spoke to us? Probably. But in all that what truth will there be? . . . Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down in...lingeringly, the grave-digger puts on the forceps. We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. (He listens.) But habit is a great deadener....
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The Sacred Art of Dying: How World Religions Understand Death

Kenneth Kramer - Family & Relationships - 1988 - 236 pages
...He'll know nothing. He'll tell me about the blows he received and I'll give him a carrot. (Pause.) Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down in...lingeringly, the grave-digger puts on the forceps. We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. (He listens.) But habit is a great deadener....
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The Theatre of Tom Stoppard

Anthony Jenkins - Drama - 1989 - 216 pages
...cruelty to relatively minor mishaps. His last comic flourish converts the pessimism of Waiting for Godot ("Astride of a grave and a difficult birth....lingeringly, the grave-digger puts on the forceps. We have time to grow old") into a jaunty sexual encounter as he cocks a snook at Sam (Beckett and Clegthorpe):...
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Make Sense who May: Essays on Samuel Beckett's Later Works

Robin J. Davis, Lance St. John Butler - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 200 pages
...from Godot on. Vladimir's reverie on birth and death is the central passage: 'Astride of a grave and difficult birth. Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave-digger puts on the forceps.' 13 In Beckett's universe birth is thwarted by the very nature of existence and the imminence of death....
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Death Dreams: Unveiling Mysteries of the Unconscious Mind

Kenneth Kramer, John S. Larkin - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1993 - 308 pages
...He'll know nothing. He'll tell me about the blows he received and I'll give him a carrot. (fimse.) Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down in...lingeringly. the grave-digger puts on the forceps. We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. (He listens.) But habit is a great deadener....
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Tragic Drama and the Family: Psychoanalytic Studies from Aeschylus to Beckett

Bennett Simon - Psychology - 1988 - 292 pages
...man who is not "of woman born," whose existence is not dependent on passing through the birth canal. "Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down in...lingeringly, the grave-digger puts on the forceps," muses Vladimir in Beckett's Waiting for Godot, not bitterly denouncing the "hole" but simply equating...
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Beckett in the 1990s: Selected Papers from the Second International Beckett ...

Marius Buning, Lois Oppenheim - 1993 - 388 pages
...permit them to appear whole. Vladimir characterizes the predicament of life in Waitingfor Godot as "Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down in...the hole, lingeringly, the grave-digger puts on the forceps."20 While both Bacon and Beckett express doubts in their art as to the possibility of separating...
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College Level Examination Programme: Analysis and Interpretation of Literature

College-level examinations - 2005 - 276 pages
...He'll know nothing. He'll tell me about the blows he received and I'll give him a carrot. 10 (Pause.) Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down in...lingeringly, the grave-digger puts on the forceps. We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. (He listens.) But habit is a great deadener....
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