11. Election day! “I'm delighted to learn that Nick
Clegg's literary hero is Samuel
Beckett. He may even have to fall
back on him in the coming days:
the great lesson of Godot, after all,
is the need for stoicism in the face
of disappointment.” - Michael
Billington.
“You British folks understand, don't
you, that if an American
presidential candidate said his
hero was Samuel Beckett, he'd be
finished. I mean totally finished. He
couldn't even get away with an
American equivalent.” - Michael
Tomasky
Wednesday, 5 May 2010