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  • The Unnameable is the originator of Heaven and earth; manifesting itself as the Nameable, it is "the mother of all things."

    Myths and Legends of China 1909

  • It can be "zany" or not (Beckett is zany in Waiting for Godot, not in How It Is or The Unnameable, but the effect is the same).

    Comedy in Literature 2010

  • Yet thanks to the misapplication of science to religious faith, we remain literal-minded and spiritually immature, frightened of the silence and solitude in which the Ancient of Days, the Unnameable, might be experienced, though never understood.

    Karen Armstrong and the case for God Gordon McCabe 2009

  • Staying true to our local spirit and independent roots, the book is available only at some of our favorite NYC bookstores -- McNally Jackson, Spoonbill and Sugartown, Greenlight, and Unnameable Books.

    Theodore Hamm: What the Hell Is the Brooklyn Rail? Theodore Hamm 2010

  • Staying true to our local spirit and independent roots, the book is available only at some of our favorite NYC bookstores -- McNally Jackson, Spoonbill and Sugartown, Greenlight, and Unnameable Books.

    Theodore Hamm: What the Hell Is the Brooklyn Rail ? Theodore Hamm 2010

  • Staying true to our local spirit and independent roots, the book is available only at some of our favorite NYC bookstores -- McNally Jackson, Spoonbill and Sugartown, Greenlight, and Unnameable Books.

    Theodore Hamm: What the Hell Is the Brooklyn Rail? Theodore Hamm 2010

  • Yet thanks to the misapplication of science to religious faith, we remain literal-minded and spiritually immature, frightened of the silence and solitude in which the Ancient of Days, the Unnameable, might be experienced, though never understood.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Gordon McCabe 2009

  • Staying true to our local spirit and independent roots, the book is available only at some of our favorite NYC bookstores -- McNally Jackson, Spoonbill and Sugartown, Greenlight, and Unnameable Books.

    Theodore Hamm: What the Hell Is the Brooklyn Rail? Theodore Hamm 2010

  • The wait is over for fans of Beckett's fictionI've just received a nice new paperback of Waiting for Godot (Faber), accompanied by attractive copies of Beckett's greatest fiction, Malone Dies and The Unnameable.

    Goodbye New Labour – and farewell tedious ministers' memoirs 2010

  • The characters are vivid, especially Liz, the husband-murderer who forces the naive writer to face the truth in Rebecca Lenkiewicz's That Almost Unnameable Lust, and the rehabilitated mother in Winsome Pinnock's Taken, both beautifully played by Beatie Edney.

    Charged – review Maddy Costa 2010

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