Tim: If that’s Tony Kushner’s opinion of God, we have come some way since

Samuel Beckett got the attention of London theater-goers with the following

exchange:

HAMM: Let us pray to God [ . . .] Off we go. [ . . . ] Well?
CLOV: (abandoning his attitude). What a hope! And you?
HAMM: Sweet damn all! (To Nagg.) And you?
NAGG: Wait! (Pause. Abandoning his attitude.) Nothing doing!
HAMM: The bastard! He doesn’t exist!
CLOV: Not yet.
[from Beckett’s ENDGAME (1958)]