You have to wonder what Samuel Beckett would have made of Brexit, and if he would have been inclined to take a copyright case due delay and foot-dragging that is increasingly defining the entire affair.
The Waiting for Godot playwright would certainly have found the underlying theme of this week's crunch Brussels meeting irritatingly familiar, as politicians waited for nothing to happen, nobody to come, while blaming on their boots what is the fault of their feet.
A full 28 months after Britain voted by the narrowest of narrow margins to leave the EU and just six months until they are formally meant to do so, any clear plan on how exactly this is going to be achieved remains little more than a Brexiteer fantasy.
Instead of coherent plans or practical solutions, the debate is still transfixed on the seemingly insurmountable Irish backstop stand-off and the failure to make any real progress on the matter since last December.
And with time ticking on second-by-second closer to the March 29, 2019, deadline, the best breakthrough on offer is to... wait, delay, and look for more time on their journey towards a destination they seem incapable of ever really reaching.
Enough, in other words, to make Mr Beckett want to drag himself out of his grave and phone his lawyer to get advice on how to respond to copyright infringement.
Just like the June and September meetings before it, this week's crunch EU summit to agree a Brexit deal passed without any risk of a deal being struck, with the only agreement being that the warring factions will agree to try and agree again in December.
A transition period extension from 2018-2020 to 2018-2021 has been suggested by European Commission president Jean Claude Juncker, but it is unclear what purpose it will serve if the Irish backstop crisis - increasingly blamed on Ireland for our devious trick of doing exactly what we wrote down and agreed to do a year ago - is not resolved before then.
While British prime minister Theresa May has indicated she is open to extending the transition deal by "a number of months", Brexiteers have understandably lashed out at the plan as it will mean they will have to keep paying into the EU for longer than planned, potentially strangling the entire plan at birth.
And although several reports have suggested the EU is willing to be more "flexible" with London negotiators, the latest claimed solution of agreeing to "consider" extending the Northern Ireland backstop to the rest of the UK at a later stage if the initial deal is signed off on by March 29 is unlikely to sway the DUP, who want nothing short of a cast-iron guarantee Brussels cannot provide.
If it all sounds familiar it's because it is, with the same tired issues being batted back and forth for more than two years without any real progress being made.
And, like Beckett's Waiting for Godot characters Vladimir and Estragon, the UK is not the only one waiting for Brexit - or at least a solution - to arrive, with Ireland just as much at risk of damage due to the disaster unfolding before our eyes.
More than two years after the Brexit vote and with just six months before Britain is meant to put on its coat and get out, no one is any the wiser about how this will conceivably happen.
Instead, businesses, border communities and the wider public both in Ireland, the UK and the rest of Europe are left with fear, threats, empty promises and more than a little loathing from the main players central to the scene.
Waiting for Brexit right now is like Waiting for Godot, with delay and inaction the order of the day.
The only difference is that for Brexit it is the ending - not the start - that is difficult, because while you can start from anything, the problem is eventually you have to decide.