Footfalls above "we would see the tracing on the stage floor of a tremendously elongated variation of the figures 8 turned on its side … the mathematical symbol for infinity." Beckett was also indebted to the French psychologist Pierre Janet for his conception of hysterical behaviour. In his overview of Janet's work, Robert Woodworth in his "Contemporary Schools of Psychology", a work Beckett read, pays particular attention to Janet's description of the "hysterical paralysis of one arm", which Beckett incorporated, into May's posture. There are a number of analogies between "Footfalls" and Janet's work with a patient called Irène: He lists
Gear Cube Pyraminx, or even the Gear Cube. They are most likely using "Singmaster notation", originally developed by David Singmaster. It allows for algorithms to be written in a way that a solver can use it no matter what side of the cube they are on. When a prime symbol ( ' ) follows a letter it indicates that move must be rotated in a counter-clockwise fashion. However, if the prime symbol is absent after the letter, that move must be rotated in a clock-wise fashion. For example: R - rotate the right side clockwise. R' - rotate the right side counter-clockwise.