Quotation by Samuel Beckett

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A, in "Theatre II," one of the dramatic pieces in Ends and Odds Grove Press (1976)"An Imaginative Work!" Dublin Magazine, xi, n.s. (July-Sept., 1936)Arsene, in Watt Grove Press (1959)Bam, in What Where (1984)"Beckett's Letters on Endgame" The Village Voice Reader, Doubleday (1962)

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I asked her to look at me and after a few moments—(pause)Mbut the eyes just slits, because of the glare. I bent over her to get them in the shadow and they opened. (Pause. Low.) Let me in. (Pause.) We drifted in among the flags and such. The way they went down, sighing, before the stem!

Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett (1906–1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. First edition, 1958. Krapp, in Krapp's Last Tape, pp. 22-23, Grove Press (1960).

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