A Conversation for Samuel Beckett's 'Ping'
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KneeTrembler'81 Started conversation Nov 30, 2004
Beckett uses a very limited vocabulary in Ping. It says nothing about the author, everything about the use of language. It is cut back and cut back and cut back.
Why should he give the bourgeois users of language - the same language used to start two world wars - anything to titillate them?
You may search for meaning but Beckett preys on reader expectations, the average 'owner' of language with their worn out useless words...
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