Book Blog 5- Continuation of Book Blog four on Lucky’s speech
Part 4: in spite of the strides of physical culture the practice of sports such as tennis football running cycling swimming flying floating riding gliding conating camogie skating tennis of all kinds dying flying sports of all sorts autumn summer winter winter tennis of all kinds hockey of all sorts penicillin and succedanea in a word I resume flying gliding golf over nine and eighteen holes tennis of all sorts in a word for reasons unknown in Feckham Peckham Fulham Clapham namely concurrently simultaneously.
I’d say the most important word in this large group of words is the made up word ‘conating’. If you were to break this word apart you would get two parts: Con meaning ‘with’ or ‘together’, and Ating, which makes the word a verb. So the word conating is the act of being together. I think this is the main idea for this blob and I believe the book as a whole. Humans are codependent of each other. We need each other’s company to survive. That is why even though Estragon and Vladimir seem to dislike each other and long to be away from each other, they remain together and are excited to see each other at being separated for a night. Another example was Pozzo and Lucky. Estragon asks why Pozzo why he doesn’t just throw lucky on the street to rot and Pozzo are unable to place it, it is that same interdependence that Vladimir and Estragon feel for each other. Lucky and Pozzo need each other’s company in order to survive and carry on. And yet another example of this, it is the last one I assure you, is when Pozzo goes to part with Vladimir and Estragon and he is unable to do it.
The sports are just simply referring to ceremony and ritual and how people come together to participate in them and see each other. We use sports, all ceremony and ritual, as an excuse to engage in each other. ‘…tennis of all kinds, hockey of all sorts, penicillin and Succedanea in a word…’ means that all these sports are a replacement for the word conating because Succedanea is ‘something that is used in the place of something else’ and that is what he is undoubtedly referring to.
Part 4: in spite of the strides of physical culture the practice of sports such as tennis football running cycling swimming flying floating riding gliding conating camogie skating tennis of all kinds dying flying sports of all sorts autumn summer winter winter tennis of all kinds hockey of all sorts penicillin and succedanea in a word I resume flying gliding golf over nine and eighteen holes tennis of all sorts in a word for reasons unknown in Feckham Peckham Fulham Clapham namely concurrently simultaneously.
I’d say the most important word in this large group of words is the made up word ‘conating’. If you were to break this word apart you would get two parts: Con meaning ‘with’ or ‘together’, and Ating, which makes the word a verb. So the word conating is the act of being together. I think this is the main idea for this blob and I believe the book as a whole. Humans are codependent of each other. We need each other’s company to survive. That is why even though Estragon and Vladimir seem to dislike each other and long to be away from each other, they remain together and are excited to see each other at being separated for a night. Another example was Pozzo and Lucky. Estragon asks why Pozzo why he doesn’t just throw lucky on the street to rot and Pozzo are unable to place it, it is that same interdependence that Vladimir and Estragon feel for each other. Lucky and Pozzo need each other’s company in order to survive and carry on. And yet another example of this, it is the last one I assure you, is when Pozzo goes to part with Vladimir and Estragon and he is unable to do it.
The sports are just simply referring to ceremony and ritual and how people come together to participate in them and see each other. We use sports, all ceremony and ritual, as an excuse to engage in each other. ‘…tennis of all kinds, hockey of all sorts, penicillin and Succedanea in a word…’ means that all these sports are a replacement for the word conating because Succedanea is ‘something that is used in the place of something else’ and that is what he is undoubtedly referring to.
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