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How It Is is a novel by Samuel Beckett published in 1964. It consists of a monologue by the narrator as he crawls through apparently endless mud, and reminisces on his life. The mud appears to be a kind of purgatory. The title is Beckett's translation of the original French, Comment c'est, a pun on commencer or 'to begin'. The theme may be the struggle of form to emerge from formlessness using Leopardi's sense of the world as mud ('E fango รจ il mondo'), as well as Dante's image of souls... full article at wikipedia
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