WATTS. “Beckett is fascinated by Descartes scholastic method of revealing faith by reason and his steps of reasoning. Take the whole, break it into its parts, start with the simplest and list every possibility — this what Beckett does with his lists of permutations — except that there is no revealed truth for Beckett’s permutations. Cycles of futility, no dramatic conclusions. It is about pausing and feeling a sense of despair and then going on.”
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