The whole effort of the text is to “worsen” these images, to make them less concrete, more of a blur. The work evokes a number of scenes or images: an old woman in a black coat, seen from behind an old man and a small child, initially walking hand in hand, later apart yet still walking in parallel and the head of a man, initially with eyes open, then closed, who seems to be creating all this. The title, a play on Charles Kingsley’s Westward Ho!, indicates the general direction. This text attempts with incredible concentration to move from bad to worse to an impossible worst. It comes early on in a brief work, published late in Beckett’s career (1983), called Worstward Ho. The third of those cited above, the current market leader, was used twice on the same sports page of The Irish Times recently, both times in reference to Waterford hurling (though Mayo football might be more appropriate). Fail better." For a writer often seen as difficult and dismal, the hold that certain expressions by Samuel Beckett exercises on the public consciousness is extraordinary. "Waiting for Godot." "I must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on." "Try again.
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