Silence in Beckett

[nobodyyouknow]

Samuel Beckett famously characterised his work as “a stain upon the silence”. His entire career may be viewed as an attempt, if not to eradicate this stain, then to unrelentingly reduce it to its most essential, brutal components. Beckett was hyperaware of the wealth of meaning, of significance, associated with words, and the impossibility of

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[nobodyyouknow]

"The language is adrift in a sea of antispecificity, devoid of the linguistic anchors that reveal tense, person, address and viewpoint..."

As you can see, I've never been one to let coherence get in the way of a good nautical metaphor.

Maybe that's what I'll have put on my gravestone..."He never let coherence get in the way of a good nautical metaphor."