There were no longer words being spoken, but images being visualized. We achieved it above all by the dislocation of language. ... Beckett destroys language with silence. I do it with too much language, with characters talking at random, and by inventing words. (Eugène Ionesco)

There were no longer words being spoken, but images being visualized. We achieved it above all by the dislocation of language. ... Beckett destroys language with silence. I do it with too much language, with characters talking at random, and by inventing words.

Eugène Ionesco

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