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patiently.
Allowing these blocks to gradually build a meaningful text at the pace that it
requires
not just with words and images but also with the blank spaces within.
In 4’ 33” John Cage creates a piano
concert in three move-
ments in
which the piano is not
played.
The pianist comes in, sits
at the piano
, closes the keyboard
and uses
a timer to workout the
time. He
repeats this three times
and then
he leaves without having
played a
single note on the Key-
board.
The audience is kept wait-
ing for
the piano music. Instead,
through
the silence that the non
playing
of the piano in the usual
way,
another kind of perfor-
mance
evolves in which the sounds and
movements of the environment that
Michael Worton talks about the pauses in Beckett’ s writing as“ crucial to present” different types of silence: Inadequacy, repression, anticipation. It seems that the characters have to wait for the right words and that the silence informs and shapes those words. Worton also points out how the silences“ give the reader- spectator space and time to explore the blank spaces and thus intervene creatively and individually in the establishment of the play’ s meaning”( Worton, 1994, 75)