> Here's an answer to you query about SB's popularity among Iraqi students which you raised in your first e-mail message two weeks ago. Ever since we. Iraqi students in the University of Baghdad were introduced in late spring, 1967 to SB's WAITING FOR GODOT--and I pride myself in getting to know SB before James Knowlson who discovered him in 1969--our love of him has been growing over the years and from one generation to the other, as if he was a guru whose followers grow in number in the course of time. Amidst the atrocitiers on-going currently in Iraq, we Iraqis--scholars as well as laymen--pride ourselves in LIVING the Absurd whereas the rest of the world READS in books and SEES on stage the Absurd, ie other people's fiction is our reality, their intellectual luxury is our mental agony, their book reading, university lecturing and play staging are our street fights, suicide cars exploding and kidnapping and killing. Hence SB's credibility, reality and the truth among us, not READ on the page or SEEN on the stage, but LIVED on ground