Kafka is Waiting for Godot

Utopia is fantasy.

Sources (in order of appearance):

-Genesis 11:1-10 KJV
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This essay uses clips from the 2001 TV production of Waiting for Godot directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg. A full version of that production can be found on YouTube at this link:    • Waiting for Godot with English & Arab...  .

Bibliography:
Nick Mount on Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot:    • Nick Mount on Samuel Beckett's Waitin...  
Franz Kafka, The Trial
Kraut: History does NOT Repeat:
   • History does NOT Repeat