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willing to "spend the dime, spend the time." In
Detroit, I am beginning to see such people. But
at school Not yet. My cracked book in hand, like
Didi and Gogo in Beckett's great play, I wait.
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1
The colophon for this book reads: "Waiting for Godot in
New Orleans: A Field Guide. This publication was prepared
on the occasion of Waiting for Godot in New Orleans: A play
in two acts, a project in three parts, by Paul Chan." (New York:
Creative Time, 2010), 337.
2
Susan Sontag, quoted in Waiting for Godot: A Field Guide,
ed. Paul Chan (New York: Creative Time), 38.
3
Cauleen Smith, "Constellations Around the Making of The
Fullness of Time," in Chan, Waiting, 249.
4
"Undoing: A Conversation between Kathy Halbreich and
Paul Chan," in Chan, Waiting, 307.
5
Cf. Chan, Waiting, 12.
6
Cf. Chan, Waiting, 17-19.
7
Cf. Chan, Waiting, 109-115.
8
Cf. Chan, Waiting, 120-133.
9
Cf. Chan, Waiting, 134-137.
10
Cf. Chan, Waiting, 152-160, 168-169, 174-177, 180-185.
11
Cf. Waiting, 13.
12
Cf. Terry Eagleton, "Political Beckett" in Chan, Waiting,
55-62.
13
Alain Badiou, "What Happens," in Chan, Waiting, 63-66.
14
Cf. Susan Sontag, "Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo," in
Chan, Waiting, 66-106.
15
Cf. David Cuthbert, "Godot is Great (The Times-Pacayune,
November 6, 2007)," in Chan, Waiting, 214-217; Anne Gisleson,
"That Tree, that Levee," in Chan, Waiting, 233-238;
Andrea Boll, "Puking my Puke of a Like (NOLAFugees.
com, November 20, 2007)," in Chan, Waiting, 239-241, and
Jed Horne, "Is New Orleans Waiting for Godot (The Huffington
Post, November 14, 2007)," in Chan, Waiting, 242-
244.
16
Cf. Chan, Waiting, 90.
17
Cf. "Drawing for staging Gentilly Godot by Gavin Kroeber,
2007," in Chan, Waiting, 162.
18
Cf. "New Orleans Contact Sheet," in Chan, Waiting, 100-
105.