Beckett

1 Samuel Beckett once declined an interview because, he said, he had “no views to inter.”

2 He was 69 and lived in Manhattan and Bucks County, Pa. The cause was complications of gastrointestinal surgery, his wife, Kathleen Beckett, said.

3 Beckett's musicality is often noted in the sharply defined rhythmic profiles of his prose-poetry, and in the dense polyphonic interplay of short, carefully controlled motivic cells.

4 Her husband David Beckett said she died "peacefully" in a Manchester hospital.

5 It is, like its Beckett source, tender, transparent, unsentimental and unsparing.

6 But amid the bleakness, there is also humour, and it's no surprise that there are so many comedians among Beckett's fans.

7 Over all, the genre has struggled to rise above the gross-out, mass-murder sensibility of comic books and video games, with the exception of Tom Beckett’s “Little Book of Zombie Poems,” published online at fieralingue.it/documenti/lbzp.pdf.

8 Jackson spends his days caring for 1-year-old Beckett, and he finds it far more taxing than his former 12-hour office days: “I’m sore all the time.”

9 It leans against a wall, like a prop from a Samuel Beckett play.

10 Have you ever paused to consider the spiritual and physical affinities between the desolate universe of Samuel Beckett and the wacky world of vintage Warner Brothers cartoons?

11 A cross between Beckett and William Gibson, it follows its globetrotting heroine through a series of anonymous hotel rooms around the world, a rocking chair strapped to her back.

12 A documentary crew follows Castle, Beckett and the team as they investigate the murder of a rock band's lead guitarist.

13 Columbia, who appears to be in his 70s and looks like William Hurt preparing to play Samuel Beckett, speaks of his working class background and a family history that includes abuse and murder.

14 James Joyce is your father and Samuel Beckett is one of your boyfriends.

15 Beckett wrote them as doppelgängers; I mistook them for a gay Amish couple with power issues.

16 “Oh, God, do I love Beckett,” he says with a grin.

17 Others, such as Beckett and Harold Pinter, took a more surreal approach to distilling the neurotic preoccupations of the characters they put on stage.

18 At a subsequent meeting, Mr. Wilson recounted, Beckett suggested that he do one of the plays.

19 Standing members of the audience are covered by black sheeting through which their heads protrude, suggesting an international convention of Winnies from Beckett's Happy Days.

20 It is easy to forget, somehow, that Beckett wrote much of his most remarkable work in French.

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