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Banville, John

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s devoted Beckett readers greeted each successively shorter volume from the master with a mixture of awe and apprehensiveness; it was like watching a great mathematician wielding an infinitesimal calculus, his equations approaching nearer and still nearer to the null point.

Quoted in a review of Samuel Beckett's Nohow On: Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho, in The New York Review of Books, August 13, 1992.