Lucky's Tirade :





York Notes on Waiting for Godot





Lucky's Tirade : When rehearsing the play in Berlin in 1975, Beckett began with Lucky's speech, as though it contained the core of the play. The rehearsal diary kept by his assistant director, Walter Asmus, quotes Beckett's approach to the speech : 'We are going to divide it into three parts and the second part is going to be divided again into two sections.

  

   The first part is about the indifference of heaven, about divine apathy. This part ends with, 'but not so fast. . .'



Given the existence as uttered forth in the public works of Puncher and Wattmann of a personal God quaquaquaqua with the white beard quaquaquaqua outside time without extension who from the heights of divine apathia divine athambia divine aphasia loves us dearly with some exceptions for reasons unknown but time will tell and suffers like the divine Miranda with those who for reasons unknown but time will tell are plunged in torment plunged in fire whose fire flames if that continues and who can doubt it will fire the firmament that is to say blast hell to heaven so blue still and calm so calm with a calm which even though intermittent is better than nothing but not so fast and considering what is more that as a result of the labors left unfinished crowned by the Acacacacademy of Anthropopopometry of Essy-in-Possy of Testew and Cunard it is established beyond all doubt all other doubt than that which clings to the labors of men that as a result of the labors unfinished of Testew and Cunard it is established as hereinafter but not so fast