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heteronym, an actor playing a role and using numbers toward the countdown and
final lines. They mean nothing. As Estragon and Vladimir, in Beckett’s “Waiting For
Godot” ramble on, Estragon: “We might try him with other names … That’d pass
the time. And we’d be bound to hit on the right one sooner or later”
5
(Fig. 68.2).
5 “Waiting For Godot,” a tragicomedy in two acts by Samuel Beckett, Faber and Faber Limited,
London 1955, p. 83.
Fig. 68.2 “And is himself the great Sublime he draws,” Alexander Pope on Dionysius Longinus
On the Sublime, from J. Wall design, and engraved by G.Vdr. Gucht, translated with notes and
observations by William Smith, E.Johnson, London, 1770. (Private Collection). (Photo © M.C.
Tobias)
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heteronym, an actor playing a role and using numbers toward the countdown and
final lines. They mean nothing. As Estragon and Vladimir, in Beckett’s “Waiting For
Godot” ramble on, Estragon: “We might try him with other names … That’d pass
the time. And we’d be bound to hit on the right one sooner or later”
5
(Fig. 68.2).
5 “Waiting For Godot,” a tragicomedy in two acts by Samuel Beckett, Faber and Faber Limited,
London 1955, p. 83.
Fig. 68.2 “And is himself the great Sublime he draws,” Alexander Pope on Dionysius Longinus
On the Sublime, from J. Wall design, and engraved by G.Vdr. Gucht, translated with notes and
observations by William Smith, E.Johnson, London, 1770. (Private Collection). (Photo © M.C.
Tobias)
68 Caesuras of Certainty