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Lansky has another book project. This one involves not only old volumes but also the stories of their owners, which he is transcribing for a chronicle of his adventures in book gathering. Shortly after he began his collection runs, he started tape recording his conversations with the donors, many of whom had thought their culture was doomed. "They're giving up a library, and it's like a moment of transition," Lansky says. "They're giving up the library before they die. So they often cry and tell stories...
Through the '40s, Beckett kept writing, shifting, for reasons he never explained, from English to French as the language in which he created. He remained obscure until a spectacular burst from 1951 to 1953, in which Godot and three novels appeared to acclaim. The plays Endgame, Krapp's Last Tape and Happy Days followed by 1960. Thereafter he produced fewer and fewer, shorter and shorter, bleaker and bleaker pieces but never quite lapsed into the ultimate despair of artistic silence. His last work, Stirrings Still, a fiction of less than 2,000 words, was published in March...
Beckett's images have transfixed countless theatergoers, who watched the tramps in Godot wait for a savior who never comes, or heard the old man in Krapp's Last Tape review recorded fragments of his life as he murmurs, over and over, "Spool," or shared the haplessness of the elderly couple in Endgame as they face the end of the world while encased in trash cans. Beyond his own art, Beckett shaped the vision of countless others. They emulated, if never equaled, his simplicity of means, philosophical daring and ability to engage vast ideas in tiny trickles of closely guarded...
...neighbors to Scott Tyler -- especially on the telephone. First two of his neighbors in Dixon, Iowa, accidentally eavesdropped on his private telephone calls. Then, mistakenly believing Tyler was discussing drug deals, they informed the county sheriff's office. Supplied by an investigator with recording equipment, the neighbors proceeded to tape more than 20 cassettes of Tyler's phone conversations over the next few months. Although they never turned up a shred of evidence about drug sales, the tapes did help raise suspicion about some illegal personal business dealings...
...city of Timisoara, near the border with Yugoslavia, as he flew off for an official visit to Iran. Now, under arrest and facing a military tribunal, he did not seem to understand or accept his defeat. He raged at his judges, who were not shown on the tape, insisted that he would answer only to the "working class" and refused to address the prosecutor's charges that he had destroyed Rumania. Within a bare two hours, the Ceausescus were found guilty of genocide, with "more than 60,000 victims," and of gross abuse of the power of the state...