Today, August 25th is 58th anniversary of death of May Beckett, our Sam's mother. May was an iron willed woman whose metal withstood Sam's hammers. No wonder Sam made a lot of his characters have names beginning with the letter M, May's initial and the letter is No 13 in the English alphabet. Shawqi Abdul-Amir, an Iraqi who met Beckett in mid-1970s told me that he had a chat in French with Sam during which, Sam, looking intense, said that he wrote WAITING FOR GODOT as, to use TS Eliot's expression, "an objective correlative" to a crisis he was going through caused by a row with his mother May