id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1831 All That Fall - Wikipedia .html text/html 9045 813 83 All That Fall is a one-act radio play by Samuel Beckett produced following a request[1] from the BBC. At each stage of the journey the technology she encounters advances, but despite this each means of locomotion is beset by problems, foreshadowing the problem with the train: she finds walking difficult and is forced to sit down, Christy needs to whip his hinny to make her go, Tyler's tire goes flat, and Slocum's engine dies. Something Dan says reminds Maddy of a visit she once made to hear "a lecture by one of these new mind doctors.[25] What she heard there was the story of a patient the doctor had failed to cure, a young girl who was dying, and "did in fact die, shortly after he had washed his hands of her."[26] The reason the doctor gave for the girl's death, as if the revelation had just come to him there and then, was: "The trouble with her was that she had never really been born!"[27] "Hear Samuel Beckett's Avant-Garde Radio Plays: All That Fall, Embers, and More". ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1831.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1831.txt