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=== Autobiographical === [[File:Friedrich - Two Men Contemplating the Moon.jpg|thumb|[[Caspar David Friedrich]]'s painting ''[[Two Men Contemplating the Moon]]''.]] ''Waiting for Godot'' has been described as a "metaphor for the long walk into [[Roussillon]], when Beckett and [[Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil|Suzanne]] slept in haystacks ... during the day and walked by night ... [or] of the relationship of Beckett to [[James Joyce|Joyce]]".{{sfn|Bair|1990|pages=409, 410, 405}} Beckett told [[Ruby Cohn]] that [[Caspar David Friedrich]]'s painting ''[[Two Men Contemplating the Moon]]'', which he saw on his journey to Germany in 1936, was a source for the play.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Knowlson|first=James|title=Damned to Fame. The Life of Samual Beckett|publisher=Bloomsbury|location=London|year=1996|pages=254, 378, 609}}</ref>
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