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...stage reduced to one endless stretch of carpet-portions of which move up and down throughout-the inhabitants of this world stalk about in clothes ranging from a blood-red kimono to assorted feather boas and beaver caps. Their manners are peculiar, but their props and other accoutrements seem designed to inspire total familiarity...
Krapp, stumbling through meaningless and totally self-referential rituals with his tapes, exemplifies life at an absolute standstill, paralyzed further by the authoritative presence of technology. His endless recycling of a few sparse impressions via his tapes serves only to lock him into the same room, situation, round of thought at the only new material comes in bizarre introspective snatches, such as his sensual enjoyment of the word "spool" (happened on by accident in the tape-playing instructions), or his momentary impulse to look up in a dictionary a word he once knew...
...same person, echoes the young man's mannerisms with fairly convincing results. Both of them speak in one of Beckett's crazy derived dialects, a mishmash of cliches and rhetorical fragments, the refuse of a language long cut off from creative input. Both speak despairingly of (literally) endless struggles to break the same habits, particularly a fierce predilection for eating bananas; Gullette eats two at the performance's start, in a display that moved one audience member to bubble enthusiastically to him at intermission, "Wow, that was the most obscene thing I've ever seen in my life!" The sense...
...risen from his birthplace on Mulberry Street in Manhattan's Little Italy to become Hud's unwelcome neighbor. Gaetano's goodly impulse is to detox Hud: "You don't have to die." But Hud sees it as an intrusion of Wop on Wasp. He hurls endless ethnic slurs at Gaetano. To salvage Hud, Gaetano takes these insults with infinite good grace and gets enough snappers back to make the evening something of a celebrity roast. In the slugfest finale of Act I, Gaetano swings both parts of a refrigerator door at Hud, knocks him cold, puts...
...situation wherein two or more processes are unable to proceed because each is waiting for the other to do something. This is the electronic equivalent of gridlock, a lovely, virtually perfect word that describes automobile traffic paralyzed both ways through an intersection). The hacker's lexicon is endless and weirdly witty, and inspiring in a peculiar way: the human language is caught there precisely in the act of improvisation as it moves through a strange new country. The mind is making itself at home in the mysteries and possibilities of the machines...