darity amongst meri and, by doing so, may make this fate a little less unbearable. It was no coincidence that the character who earned more ·gratitude in our century than any other was the pitiful figure of the early Chaplin. Farce seems to have e the last asylum for compassion, the complicity of the sad our last comfort. And although the mere tone of humaneness which springs from this barren soil of mean- inglessness may only be a tiny comfort; and although the voice which comforts us does not know why it is comforting and who the Godot is for whom it makes us hope-it shows that warmth means more than meaning; and that it is not the metaphysician who has the last word.
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