Waiting for Godot

"I myself know him less well than anyone ... if his name suggests the heavens, it is only to the extent that a product for promoting hair can seem heavenly. Each person is free to put a face on him".

... Samuel Beckett (1906-89), Irish novelist, playwright.

Determining determinism

quote from his Ethics

″... the infant believes that it is by free will that it seeks the breast; the angry boy believes that by free will he wishes vengeance; the timid man thinks it is with free will he seeks flight; the drunkard believes that by a free command of his mind he speaks the things which when sober he wishes he had left unsaid. ... All believe that they speak by a free command of the mind, whilst, in truth, they have no power to restrain the impulse which they have to speak″.<sup>[

          ...</sup> Baruch Spinoza (1632-77), Dutch philosopher