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...such moments Quarantine has the feel of Samuel Beckett's philosophical vaudeville. But that is where any comparison with the playwright should end. None of Crace's characters is a despairing optimist waiting for Godot or any other no-show. Sacred or profane, each represents the beginning...
...together. But this task is often distracted into a fumbling account of the scores of #'s literary references. Some of these references are disjunct and capricious, but the best, like the Interlude of scene five, are masterpieces of intertextuality without being "coterie items. "Rising from trash cans borrowed from Beckett, Ezra Pound (Yu) and T.S. Eliot (Marler) offer up literature. In a later scene, Pound, with Robert Lowell, reflects that he "began with swollen head, and ended with swollen feet...
...Beckett denied that the structural problems are severe enough to warrant building an entirely new stadium...
...Sure, the Bowl could use a face lift," Beckett said, "but we're not gonna tear it down...
...going to tear down the what?" Beckett responded when asked for a response to the Herald story...