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...LOVER, by Harold Pinter, and PLAY, by Samuel Beckett. Pinter's couple let themselves go in uninhibited make-believe adultery, while Beckett's trio drone on bitingly and briefly about their adulterous affair...
...Samuel Beckett. 147 pages. Grove Press...
Clear as Mud. Is this hell or is this life? Characteristically, in Samuel Beckett's world it seems to make little difference. But wherever his creature is bound, Beckett is clearly bent on re-creating the spiritual history of man. The crawler encounters another crawler called Pim and begins to "educate" him. "first lesson ... I dig my nails into his armpit right hand right pit he cries I withdraw then thump with fist on skull his face sinks in the mud his cries cease end of first lesson." Pim learns not to cry but to sing when...
...Abandoned here, Beckett's book would have been a maddening parody of all human effort to pose the existence of God, either from man's need or from the ordered complexity of the universe. But the author presses on to a familiar clench-jawed conclusion. Bom has imagined it all-the encounter with Pirn, the divine listener, the grand design. He is alone in the mud with arms spread in the pitiful shape of a cross. His only solace is the belief that someday he will...
...LOVER, by Harold Pinter, and PLAY, by Samuel Beckett. Pinter's proper couple feast on make-believe adultery, wrapped in mystery and mockery. Beckett's bodyless trio discusses the pains and reveals the banalities of infidelity...