Samuel Beckett vs. Douglas Adams
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Samuel Beckett
1906 – 1989
Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish playwright, poet, novelist, and literary critic. Writing in both English and French, his literary and theatrical works feature bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic episodes of life, coupled with black comedy and literary nonsense. Beckett is widely regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century, credited with transforming modern theatre.
"What I assert, deny, question, in the present, I still can. But mostly I shall use the various tenses of the past. For mostly I do not know, it is perhaps no lo…"
Douglas Adams
1853 – 1920
Douglas Adams was a British author best known for his comedic science-fiction series The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
"There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right … Or put it another way, "The future of computer power…"
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