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Has anyone read this play? It's an absurdist/existentialist play by Samuel Beckett.

http://www.uiowa.edu/~gelit/books/godot.html

http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~pradyut/publicity.html

I'm not sure if this has been noted before, because it's not on the references and homages page, but the artwork on the Please mr. lostman's cover and inner pages is from a scene in the play, and the cover of the book.


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[i]What?[/i]


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[quote="Culen"][i]What?[/i][/quote]

Seconded....What are you talking about that looks nothing like three guys lighting up a smoke. It's like some people's silouettes at night, then some cast of a play.


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I follow. Don't you guys see the resemblance between that blue picture and PML's cover? Give more details though, dude; I wanna see more parallels between the two.


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the pictue of the silouttes holding hands, maybe the blue color and the tree a little, but still....


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The three guys lighting up is from a scene in the play. unfortunately, I didn't bring a copy of it with me to college, but i can assure you that the cover of PML and the play are somehow related.

it's just two guys who are waiting for godot, and in this one scene a third man walks by them, talks to them for a bit, and lights their cigarettes for them.

in PML's cover, Sawao is that third man that's lighting their cigarettes. he's not smoking with them, just as that third dude doesn't.

that single tree silhouetted against the sky is the setting for the play, and the background set that is used in almost every production of the play.

i can see how people would think it's different, and if it is, isn't it at least easy to see how the cover of the album could have been inspired by it?

It's a good play, by the way. It's a play about nothing.


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They poke fun at this play in another, entitled "The Actor's Nightmare."


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[quote="Joyeuse"]They poke fun at this play in another, entitled "The Actor's Nightmare."[/quote]

OOOH! I think I've seen that performed....Is that the play with the writer with a ice-pick buried in his skull?


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[quote="virilevocalist"][quote="Joyeuse"]They poke fun at this play in another, entitled "The Actor's Nightmare."[/quote]

OOOH! I think I've seen that performed....Is that the play with the writer with a ice-pick buried in his skull?[/quote]
Hey, an icepick, like the song.


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[quote="BlazingSage"][quote="virilevocalist"][quote="Joyeuse"]They poke fun at this play in another, entitled "The Actor's Nightmare."[/quote]

OOOH! I think I've seen that performed....Is that the play with the writer with a ice-pick buried in his skull?[/quote]
Hey, an icepick, like the song.[/quote]

hmm. interesting.

In Waiting for Godot, one of the characters thinks about commiting suicide, and oddly enough, Suicide Diving is one of the songs on PML...


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No, I think you're thinking of Death of Trotsky. In Actor's Nightmare a man is told he has to go onstage as an understudy for someone, but he doesn't know the play and has no memory of ever rehearsing. There are maybe three different plays that he's supposed to be in that are interspersed through the whole thing. One of the plays is, I believe, Waiting for Godot.


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[quote="Joyeuse"]No, I think you're thinking of Death of Trotsky. In Actor's Nightmare a man is told he has to go onstage as an understudy for someone, but he doesn't know the play and has no memory of ever rehearsing. There are maybe three different plays that he's supposed to be in that are interspersed through the whole thing. One of the plays is, I believe, Waiting for Godot.[/quote]

oh yeah, that's right. I saw that performed as a humorous interpretation for speech and debate. my bad. I'll have to check An Actor's Nightmare out. thanks.


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So I was in my school's parking lot at dusk today when I saw scenery that was right from PML. There was this tree that had no leeves with a beautifully clear dark blue and pink sky behind it. It looked almost EXACTLY like the PML art. What was really strange was that I was actually listening to PML at the time...


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The song Suicide Diving also has a reference to the play with the lyric "hadashi no shounen" which is translated as "barefoot boy." One of the characters during the first act is trying to take off his boots. Also, the second act starts with the character's shoes on stage, much like the picture next to the Suicide Diving lyrics in the booklet.

http://samuel-beckett.net/Waiting_for_Godot_Part2.html

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[quote="overAmped"]So I was in my school's parking lot at dusk today when I saw scenery that was right from PML. There was this tree that had no leeves with a beautifully clear dark blue and pink sky behind it. It looked almost EXACTLY like the PML art. What was really strange was that I was actually listening to PML at the time...[/quote]

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