Everyone is defined in this imbrication of flesh, this interchange of torturer and tortured. The word exquisite is used to describe torture a striking choice, suggestive of a painstaking form of organisation, something almost too organised. This linking of justice with organisation with reason and an odd kind of beauty reaches back to an earlier, platonic notions of virtue and its affiliations with these ideas. The form of justice adumbrated depends, of course, on the latter. If there is only him alone, there cannot be symmetry, ordering, organisation.
Solipsism is circumvented by characteristic Beckettian impotence.
These concluding passages are all the more disquieting for being the revenant of the Unnamable. The calm, measured tones of parts 1 and 2 are disrupted by the relentless, compulsive voice of the earlier work, and its sliding in and out of hysteria. The circular motion described above thus finds a curious correlate in the movement of Beckett s prose voice.