Posted by Sigismund on January 29, 2010, at 21:50:12
In reply to Bored and a little lonely, posted by Verloren on January 29, 2010, at 21:39:28
You're bored! Well.
I'm going, as I may have said, to teach English in Vietnam soon. How good would your English have to be to find this funny? Since they have had a communist government they should have the requisite pessimism (war, socialism, land reform, embrace of capitalism) to find it amusing, but what about the English angle? The language in the piece is simple and yet.......Some of the students will have very good English, some not. I'm giving thought to my absolute inexperience in teaching English.
> What do we do now?
ESTRAGON:
Wait.
VLADIMIR:
Yes, but while waiting.
ESTRAGON:
What about hanging ourselves?
VLADIMIR:
Hmm. It'd give us an erection.
ESTRAGON:
(highly excited). An erection!
VLADIMIR:
With all that follows. Where it falls mandrakes grow. That's why they shriek when you pull them up. Did you not know that?
ESTRAGON:
Let's hang ourselves immediately!
VLADIMIR:
From a bough? (They go towards the tree.) I wouldn't trust it.
ESTRAGON:
We can always try.
VLADIMIR:
Go ahead.
ESTRAGON:
After you.
VLADIMIR:
No no, you first.
ESTRAGON:
Why me?
VLADIMIR:
You're lighter than I am.
ESTRAGON:
Just so!
poster:Sigismund
thread:935357
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