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WATT Julien Pontvianne clarinet Antonin-Tri Hoang clarinets Jean-Brice Godet clarinets Jean Dousteyssier clarinet On the waste, beneath the sky, distinguished by Watt as being, the one above, the other beneath, Watt. That before him, behind him, on all sides of him, there was something else, neither sky nor waste, was not felt by Watt. And it was always their long dark flowing away together towards the mirage of union that lay before him, whichever way he turned. The sky was of a dark colour, from which it may be inferred that the usual luminaries were absent. They were. The waste also, needless to say, was of a dark colour. Indeed the sky and the waste were of the same dark colour, which is hardly to be wondered at. Watt also was very naturally of the same dark colour. This dark colour was so dark that the colour could not be identified with certainly. Sometimes it seemed a dark absence of colour, a dark mixture of all colours, a dark white. But Watt did not like the words dark white, so he continued to call his darkness a dark colour plain and simple, which strictly speaking it was not, seeing that the colour was so dark as to defy identification as such. The source of the feeble light diffused over scene is unknown. Further peculiarities of this soul-landscape were: The temperature was warm. Beneath Watt the waste rose and fell. All was silent. Above Watt the sky fell and rose. Watt was rooted to the spot. Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1942 |