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Whoroscope (1930) is a poem by Samuel Beckett. It was his first separately published work, published by Hours Press.

Whoroscope is one hundred lines of monologue supposedly uttered by the seventeenth century French philosopher René Descartes while waiting to be served an egg sufficiently mature to be eaten. Beckett uses intimate details of Descartes’s life that he found in a biography of the philosopher written by Adrien Baillet.



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