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Page 97
... Beckett doubts it . Didi and Gogo , two likable vaga- bonds , sit in purposeless patience beside a nearly barren tree during the standstill time of Waiting for Godot . They speak , of course , as they wait for someone , or something ...
... Beckett doubts it . Didi and Gogo , two likable vaga- bonds , sit in purposeless patience beside a nearly barren tree during the standstill time of Waiting for Godot . They speak , of course , as they wait for someone , or something ...
Page 98
... Beckett play , Endgame , while a paralyzed man sits at center stage staining himself with his urine because his catheter has not been brought to him , and while two of his al- ready discarded forebears repose rather too symbolically in ...
... Beckett play , Endgame , while a paralyzed man sits at center stage staining himself with his urine because his catheter has not been brought to him , and while two of his al- ready discarded forebears repose rather too symbolically in ...
Page 101
... Beckett's play but at its rather tardy imitativeness ; in Miss Genauer's view Mr. Beckett had barely caught up with the Dadaist canvases of the early 1920s . The theater is , by nature , a laggard institution . Because it does not speak ...
... Beckett's play but at its rather tardy imitativeness ; in Miss Genauer's view Mr. Beckett had barely caught up with the Dadaist canvases of the early 1920s . The theater is , by nature , a laggard institution . Because it does not speak ...
Contents
A Philosophy and Its Aftermath | 43 |
A Danger and Its Calling Card | 87 |
What Is Left and What Is Needed | 127 |
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