“This place, if I could describe this place, no place around me, there’s no end to me, I don’t know what it is, it isn’t flesh, it doesn’t end, it’s like air…”

— Samuel Beckett , book The Unnamable

The Unnamable (1954)

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Irish novelist, playwright, and poet 1906–1989

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