![]() ![]() The title, a play on Charles Kingsley’s Westward Ho!, indicates the general direction. This text attempts with incredible concentration to move from bad to worse to an impossible worst. It comes early on in a brief work, published late in Beckett’s career (1983), called Worstward Ho. The third of those cited above, the current market leader, was used twice on the same sports page of The Irish Times recently, both times in reference to Waterford hurling (though Mayo football might be more appropriate). ![]() ![]() Fail better." For a writer often seen as difficult and dismal, the hold that certain expressions by Samuel Beckett exercises on the public consciousness is extraordinary. "Waiting for Godot." "I must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on." "Try again. ![]()
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