Onion On Beckett

Onion on Beckett

Under the banner 'Scholars Discover 23 Blank Pages That May As Well Be Lost Samuel Beckett Play', the IPKat has simply been rejoicing inwards unopen to other splendidly pointed slice of satire past times The Onion. The characteristic begins:

"Just weeks later the centennial of the nascence of pioneering minimalist playwright Samuel Beckett, archivists analyzing papers from his Paris estate uncovered a minor stack of blank newspaper that scholars are calling "the latest representative of the belatedly Irish-born writer's genius".

The 23 blank pages, which literary experts presume is a two-act play composed old betwixt 1973 too 1975, are already existence heralded every bit 1 of the almost ambitious plant past times the Nobel Prize-winning author of Waiting For Godot, too a natural progression from his before works, including 1969's Breath, a 30-second play alongside no characters, too 1972's Not I, inwards which the only illuminated business office of the phase is a floating mouth.

"In what was certainly a witting conclusion past times Mr. Beckett, the white, uniform, non-ruled pages, which symbolize the starkness too emptiness of life, were left unbound, unmarked, too untouched," said Trinity College professor of Irish Gaelic literature Fintan O'Donoghue. "And, every bit if to farther exemplify the anonymity too facelessness of 20th-century man, they were found, of all places, betwixt other sheets of paper."

"I tin only conclude that nosotros convey stumbled upon something quite remarkable," O'Donoghue added".

is reminded of John Cage's 4' 33", which he believes to last the only alone blank run inwards which the author (sic) claims copyright. If the run of John Cage (left) is indeed legally protected, then also could last the spoof Beckett's.

Empty canvass here and here
Blank poesy here too here