by Samuel Beckett excerpt from WATT (p 212) None of Mr Knott's gestures could be called characteristic, unless perhaps that which consisted in the simultaneous obturation of the facial cavities, the thumbs in the mouth, the forefingers in the ears, the little fingers in the nostrils, the third fingers in the eyes and the second fingers, free in a crisis to promote intel- lection, laid along the temples. And this was less a gesture than an attitude, sustained by Mr Knott for long periods of time, without visible discomfort. Other traits, other little ways, little ways of passing the little days, Watt remarked in Mr Knott, and could have told if he had wished, if he had not been tired, so very tired, by all he had told already, tired of adding, tired of subtracting to and from the same old things the same old things. Source of text: Samuel Beckett, WATT (New York, Grove Press, 1959) Originally published by the Olympia Press, Paris, 1953.

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