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Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads Samuel Beckett

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Beckett's Response to Questions

There were a few moments where there are these series of questions and then he he dispenses this is something like you know those have all been answered maybe he's anticipating people like us saying well wait what was this about. The carefuls the carefuls are interesting to me because some of them comment moments where he might be cutting too close to an emotion i guess don't tread thereYeah yeah but then they're often followed by on Yeah and then you do tread there um And then there's where he um does the stop asking questions there'sYes he's done one band done with them yes but interestingly he hasn't really been asking questions or has he well there were a few weeks when Beckett

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