Commentary
'Superman' and Solidarity
Colliding Views of Education's Future
October 15, 2010
In 1958, four years after the stage premiere of "Waiting for Godot," Samuel Beckett penned the most autobiographical of his 20 plays, "Krapp's Last Tape." The 69-year old Krapp, the lone character in Beckett's spare work, prepares for his ritual of recording a reflection on the past year of his life by listening to old tapes of himself at the ages of 20 and 39. The last words the "wearish" Krapp hears before he begins to record his ominously "last" tape are from his 39-year-old self: "Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a ...
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