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“ The earliest version ( April 1962 ) was written for a woman and two men, Syke and Conk, figures in white boxes.

In the final version we are presented instead with, as Michael Robinson describes it in The Long Sonata of the Dead: A Study of Samuel Beckett, “ the three corners of love ’ s eternal triangle ( the emphasis here is on the eternal ) … They have no names, simply the designations M, W1 and W2 which aim at anonymity but also stand for all men and women who have, like them, been caught up in a three-part love affair ,”