ENGL 146 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Thomas Pynchon, Surrealism, Gooseberry
13 Jan 2018
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In a circle of light surrounded by darkness, krapp sits at a table in his den. Pale and clownlike in appearance, he has a bulbous purple nose and wears old black trousers, a dirty white shirt with a black vest, and oddly oversized dirty white boots. His gray hair is messy, and he needs a shave. Krapp fumbles in his pocket, withdraws an envelope, and takes out a small bunch of keys. He goes to his desk where he unlocks a drawer and removes a recording tape. After peering at the tape he puts it back and unlocks the second drawer, taking out a banana. Krapp strokes the banana, peels it, and puts the end in his mouth, meanwhile staring into space. Finally he eats the banana and drops the peeling. In gestures suggesting a clown"s comic pantomime, he paces back and forth, slips on the peeling, then nudges the banana peel off stage with his toe.
