I've been listening to this song nonstop for the past three days and I can't stop...that's the sign of a true pop song that sounds new every time you listen to it. It still sounds fresh lyrically and musically thirty years after...Gerry's voice is plaintive, and the base guitar holds the heart b...
the play is NOT about suicide. Anyone who reads suicide into this and then acts on it is misinterpreting the entire point. But if you want to top yourself, please don't do it in the name of Beckett...you only soil his name.
The assumption is that suicide is purely for escape. It can, in fact, be the greatest act of freedom of will. If one is sentenced to death, then suicide is an act of taking your death into your own hands, and can be a sign of resistance.
@Muntgeld Sorry to push the point...but it's only by a complete separation from 'animals' that humans have any chance of surviving in the future.