even though sometimes the plays though theort, even is very limited, the selection of language, the rhythm language -- the residents of the language -- it is absolutely extraordinary. you find an echo of that and pinter.- in harold the use of silence and stillness. thatthe one phrase devastates you. i heard someone lecturing about beckett. something that i think is a thing of genius. somebody in the audience was complaining that beckett can seem to be so pessimistic. the lecturer said, i think in pessimismhere is a that makes optimism look like sentimentality. ht that was devastating and that is the elimination we get from him. >> that is what you were saying earlier. >> he realized sentimentality is the language of gangsters, emotional gangsters. yes, it is hard and bleak. i suppose, without sounding too pretentious, it is the closest thing to a kind of truth i have ever felt. responses,audience you know it works for that reason. >> of the three, do you like one more than the other? >> i'm beginning to understand "footfalls." a lot of people say it is the difficult -- most difficult of hi