Not abstraction but subtraction.

The fullness of nothingness. That is the reason for the insistence on the zero point.

Against the term ���absurd���. It presupposes the meaningful as the normal. But that is precisely the illusion[;] the absurd is the normal.

Everything so meaningless, yet at the same time the way one speaks is so normal, i.e. modern language may have shrunken ��� compared with Kafka���s epic language, brought as it were to the point of indifference with the absolute subject ��� but [it is] never replaced by linguistic absurdity

Criticism of B[eckett] amounts to the statement: but all that is terrible, it simply cannot be. Answer: it is terrible.

The fact that B[eckett] retains the label ���novel���. What has become of the novel.

Something infinitely liberating comes from B[eckett] vis-��-vis death. What is it?

From Kafka the most effective motif [is] that of the Hunter Gracchus. Death, silence, without voices, as the unattainable goal. Living is dying because it is a not-being-able-to-die.

Adorno on Beckett