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
Actual infinity actu non datur" as an irrefutable principle. (G. Cantor [3, p. 174]) The number of points in a segment one ell long is its true measure. (R. Grosseteste [9, p. 96]) Actual infinity exists in number, time and quantity. (J. Baconthorpe [9, p. 96]) During the Renaissance and by early modern times the voices in favor of actual infinity were rather rare. The continuum actually consists of infinitely many indivisibles (G. Galilei [9, p. 97]) I am so in favour of actual infinity. (G.W. Leibniz [9, p. 97]) The majority agreed with the well-known quote of Gauss: I protest against