Sam Houston, of Texas, on the subject of compromise. In the Senate of the United States, February 8, 1850 Speech of Hon.

The only way of limiting them is for the second- and third-person pronouns to unite in an impossible first-person «I» that "will utter again. Yes I remember. That was I. That was I then." But Beckett has already demonstrated in the first trilogy the inescapable division that splits the subject between speaking subject and subject of speech. Language is the villain because it lures us into thinking that its identical use of the pronoun «I» in both cases means that a unified ego exists somewhere. The only way out of the impasse is to end the fiction, immobilize the devised and the deviser, and then bring the "words to an end. With every inane word a little nearer to the last." The final paragraph returns the «you» to where "you always were. Alone." All the pronominal presences were fictive addi-863- tions that gave linguistic credence to an ultimately undefinable, nonverbal subject. Ill Seen Ill Said is a fictive construct the subject of which is the construction of fiction, a work of imagination in which imagination is seen constantly at work ...»