Ep 037 - The Unnamable, by Samuel Beckett

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

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🗓️ 12 November 2013

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

No plot, no characters, no setting. Samuel Beckett's The Unnamable sounds like it's about nothing, but it's more than just the Seinfeld of novels - or so Craig tries to convince Andrew. Beckett, a Nobel Laureate, is likely best known for Waiting for Godot, a play in which "nothing happens, twice." It stormed the theatre scene in Paris, London, and New York in the 1950s, inspiring a generation of theatregoers and angering countless more. Listen this week to find out which play angered Andrew the most. Join us also for a discussion of Twitter followers, movie previews, and cricketing.

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0:00.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well told tale,
0:05.1	they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:10.4	Plus, these are books you should have read by now.
0:30.0	I don't know why anyone would follow you on Twitter. What are they getting out of it? What are
0:38.6	they getting out of that deal? They get the very finest in tech-related tweets
0:44.6	in shameless promotions for my book podcast, overdue, and cat pictures. I think they get a lot
0:52.0	of cat pictures. Not that many. Like, if I'm going to take a picture of something as probably
0:56.8	the cat, but I don't need to take a picture of that many things. Do you think the last couple
1:01.6	episodes have really overplayed my relationship with the cat? I don't think that that's true.
1:05.9	I think relative to how often we've talked about the cat on the podcast, there was a huge spike,
1:11.7	but I don't think that it is any different because sometimes when I'm hanging out with you by
1:16.7	yourself, you'll just get a picture from Susanna on your phone just of the cat. Or you'll send one to
1:22.5	her because you love your cat. Thank you so much. Oh, I don't love my cat. I'm not worried about
1:31.1	him at all when I'm not near him. What are you even doing? You're looking at a picture of your cat
1:34.8	right now? No, I'm looking at Susanna and my chat log. Actually, there are a few. The number of
1:42.7	cat pictures to text messages is pretty, it's pretty low. I think a cat picture equals like five
1:49.9	text messages. So pretty low. A picture message. I would say a picture message, a picture.
1:58.6	I think it's worth about 1,000, 1,000 words. How many do you lose in the transition from analogue
2:07.3	to digital? Well, it depends on the resolution of the image, right? If it's like a, it's like
2:13.7	how many megapixels per word? How many words in a megapixel? I think there's two words.
2:19.3	Mega and pixel. I'm not. Welcome to overdue. This is a podcast about the books that you've been
2:29.4	meeting to read. My name is Craig. My name is Andrew. And if you're just joining us for the first
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