I absolutely cannot comprehend this. I "youtubed" this and got some absolutely haunting videos. The reading of it is completely horrifying, even though I couldn't get any Rocky Horror Picture Show references out of my head while watching it..
The only thing I can comprehend and get from this is that a seventy year old woman was abandoned by her parents at birth. She was a "tiny little girl," which possibly means she was born prematurely, and she received "no love of any kind."
The rest is more abstract - the buzzing in her head (or skull), what happened April morning, something about cowslips. One of the most interesting parts was when it is stated that she was brought up to believe "with the other waifs" in a merciful God. The Mouth goes on to mention her sins flashing through her mind and her dismissal of the notion of punishment for them.
There is constant repetition of moments, events, phrases throughout, such as the "what?...who?...no!...she!..." I suppose this relates to the title of Not I, as the woman somehow denies the events in her life as those which actually occurred to her.
Everything I've read by Beckett just makes me want to read more from him. And know more about him.
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