Since physical violence hasn’t proved successful, nor has gentle persuasion, the Animator modifies his approach once more: “Dick! – no, wait. Kiss him, miss, perhaps that will stir some fibre … on his stinker of a mouth … Till it bleeds! Kiss it white!”Beckett, S., Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett (London: Faber and Faber, 1984), p 122 Fox howls and faints.
