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Beckett's original manuscript of What Where forms part of the festival's centrepiece exhibition: Was I Sleeping While the Others Suffered?
Irwin also has some good innings, none more memorable than Vladimir's bewildered lament at the finale: "Was I sleeping, while the others suffered?
So, when I sit down with the text of Waiting for Godot and I sift through the humour, the repetition, the bleakness and acts of nothingness (you know, all that stuff that doesn't make "sense"), and I reach Vladimir's often ignored line: "Was I sleeping, while the others suffered?" the power of ambiguity suddenly hits me.
No way in hell was I sleeping there.
"If we didn't sleep here, who the hell was I sleeping with?" Gaston asks wryly.
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Was I going to be sleeping?
I am sure I'm sleeping.
That's why I'm sleeping on it.
("While I Was Sleeping" is the episode title).
"People laugh, but I was sleeping because I haven't been getting my sleep.
"That's where I slept.
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