Pantechnicon van Pantechnicon van A Pantechnicon van, currently usually shortened to pantec, was originally a furniture removal van drawn by horses and used by the British company "The Pantechnicon" for delivering and collecting furniture which its customers wished to store. The name is a word largely of British English usage. The word "Pantechnicon" is an invented one, formed from the Greek "pan" ("all") and "techne" ("art"). It was originally the name of a large establishment in Motcomb Street, Belgravia, London, opened around 1830. It combined a picture gallery, a furniture shop, and the sale of carriages, while its southern half was a
A Piece of Monologue to oblivion”… Hovering as Old Father Time in his shroud, he is ‘waiting on the rip word’ … to avaunt his ‘so-called loved ones’ and his ‘ghastly grinning’ self. Kristin Morrison argues, "The rip word in "A Piece of Monologue" is `begone', that word by which the speaker dismisses from his life that which he has always really wanted.” Linda Ben-Zvi considers the word as "the pun on R.I.P., "requiescat in pace" (rest in peace), which suggests that death is the final way of ripping the dark." "The Faber Companion to Samuel Beckett" (p 365) proposes that ‘love’ is the