Qua Qua Qua Qua

Given the existence as uttered forth in the public works of Puncher and Wattman of a personal God quaquaquaqua with white beard quaquaquaqua outside time without extension who from the heights of divine apathia divine athambia divine aphasia loves us dearly...

-Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

Waiting for Godot has always been one of my favorite plays. Anthony and I went to see it this past May when Roundabout Theater Company put on a production of it with Nathan Lane, Bill Irwin and John Goodman. It was amazing. The selection above is the start of Lucky's speech, a bit of dialog by which I have been fascinated by since high school. When we read Godot in AP English, it was my introduction to concept of existentialism, and possibly responsible for my avid interest in philosophy.

I never understood the whole quaquaquaqua bit, though. In my reading for school over the last few semesters, though, I have quite often come across qua: Preposition. In the capacity of character of. [American Heritage Dictionary]

So there's that. I'm not sure that it particularly helps in understanding Godot, but I don't necessarily believe that one every fully understands Godot. One just keeps working at it, letting it mean what it does at the various stages of your life.