Ending In Silence

<p class=ql-align-justify>In 1949 Samuel Beckett wrote the famous play <em>En Attendant Godot</em> in which the characters endlessly fumble through meaningless actions while waiting for Godot to arrive and save them.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>But Godot never came.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>The play initially ignored for being too monotonous later drew large audiences across Europe who saw it as a metaphor for the hopelessness of socialism.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>The protagonist in <em>Ending In Silence </em>is an intellectual from Saigon who joined the revolution in the jungle. He knew Godot would never come so he didn't wait.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>He chose his own path.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>He lived as if his life were a novel a creator of himself a cog that leapt out of the machine.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>Whether as a Viet Congin the resistance zone in prison or drifting through worldly life he remained himself. He lived truly fully like a rising tide wild devoted silent rebellious.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>He could hang out drinking or sit in silence laugh or cry be debauched or saintly. Anything went.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>He brought his life to the table as a feast as a game as creation and destruction. That was pouring his essence into living without needing applause.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>Like a river eager to merge with the vast ocean he hurled himself forward.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>He had but one chance to live. He was in a</p><p class=ql-align-justify>hurry. So he didn't wait for tomorrow.</p><p>...</p><p></p>