Monday, February 2, 2009

Good work, Printer.

I think that there are not really significant differences between Beckette’s text version and the video. The text was almost no different from the video. I have watched it three times, one of which I read along with the text. The only big textual difference I noticed was that Printer had a severe issue with saying “get going.” Through the play, he just changed the text from “get going” to “go on”… 4 times. Apparently somebody has an issue with the word get. In fact, I noticed that the word get appears 4 times in the text, and sure enough it’s the 4 times that were removed in the video. I don’t know what to think about that, but I’m at a loss. Apparently Harold Printer has a hard time grasping the notion of rationality. It had a severely adverse impact on my ability to comprehend this play. I’m glad I never paid money to see that video, because sometimes the worst things in life are free. I’m just kidding. I thought it was a good play and really didn’t notice any differences aside from the “get going" and a few insignificant textual altercations.

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