Text: [L]ike Beckett written for soap opera, says Lyons; its sometimes poetic, sometimes pseudo-poetic, and intermittently flat prose seems a pale imitation of, alternately, Eugene O'Neill, James Joyce, Hugh Leonard, Brian Friel, and Shakespeare, says Simon.
Entailment: It is like Beckett written for soap operas according to Lyons.
Contradiction: Lyons has no opinion on it.