....
VLADIMIR:
It's for the kidneys. ( Silence.
Estragon looks attentively at the tree. ) 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!
...
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot, 1949
Artist: Barry Blitt, The New Yorker, 2020
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