If Mueller's comparison of this book to the interval between the crucifixion and the resurrection is indeed accurate, perhaps Beckett's most cutting statement is that Sunday closes without any arrival . Vladimir offers perhaps the best summary of the author's views when he states, "Hope deferred makes something sick" (8). Throughout the work Beckett allows us to glimpse the interminable waiting that faith requires, obscured by the vision that is unnatural and imprudent. He also clearly points out the unnatural meanings shown to religion. Perhaps this very examination demonstrates the lengths to which people will go to extract religious meaning. Very early in the work Vladimir introduces the concept of religion for the first time by asking, "Have you ever read the Bible?"(8). Estragon, with every possible profanation, responds: "the Bible... I must have taken a look... I remember the maps of the Holy Land. They were colorful. Very beautiful" (8). Ultimately, is there enough evidence to draw so heavily on a religious motif in this work? While Beckett certainly intended to give some meaning to religious overtones, in making our case we have fallen into one of Beckett's more cunning traps. In a work to which no meaning can be attributed and at the same time an infinite meaning, we have stubbornly found an explanation. As Kenneth Tynan suggests, "Waiting for Godot frankly throws overboard everything by which we recognize theater." We tried to apply our methods to deal with all the other dramas and in doing so we violated them