It's a great idea: Enter a chat room and, instead of sending the usual text, type in random lines from Samuel Beckett's classic 1954 play, Waiting for Godot. It's eery how well it works. For those of you unfamiliar with the play, Vladimir and Estragon are the two main characters. In the chat room excerpt shown above, Estragon is the first to enter and speak. Note: "a/s/l" is Netlingo for age/sex/location; "BA-DOING" just means BA-DOING.

About the author  Kevin Mink hangs drywall in Athens, Georgia. His novel, The Unexamined Wife Is Not Worth Leaving, will not soon be appearing under any of the imprints to which it's been submitted. But his work has been featured in Clamor, CounterPunch, NewPages.com and The Palestine Chronicle. He can be reached at kevjmink@yahoo.com.

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