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Krapp’s Last Tape, by Samuel Beckett, explores the stasis of time and how it does not pass, but rather piles up around you. Krapp is, in a sense, a man trying to hold onto the past by recording retrospects throughout his life. He does not however, seem to remember much of what he has recorded in the past, for example the eclipse, which he has called memorable, but cannot seem to recall. Additionally, although Krapp’s process of recording seems like a ritual, something that he has done many times before and that he should be quite familiar with, much of this ritual seems new to him as he goes about it in front of us. He explores the word “spool” as though he has never heard it before, he inspects the plug to the recording machine as if he