Pozzo and Hamm, my personal heroes due to their cynicism and scoffing (heroic because they are cynical and cynics because they are heroic) are what mainly attracts me to Samuel Beckett, the rest is quicksand, and because I am a passionate reader of biographies (three excellent reads has Beckett), and biographic writings (his letters to Alan Schneider collected by that Irish TCD professor and your would-be 4-vol collected letters and the conversations by and and about him collected by Mel Gussow), Beckett was lucky in my loving him