Samuel Beckett in Wisden's Cricketer's Almanac

"Samuel Barclay Beckett, who died in Paris on December 22, 1989, aged 83, had two first-class games for Dublin University against Northamptonshire in 1925 and 1926, scoring 35 runs in his four innings and conceding 64 runs without taking a wicket. A left-hand opening batsman, possessing what he himself called a gritty defense, and a useful left-arm medium-pace bowler, he had enjoyed a distinguished all-round sporting as well as academic record at Portora Royal School, near Enniskillen, and maintained his interest in games while at Trinity College, Dublin..."

Beckett In Berlin, January 1937--(notebook quoted in "Damned to Fame" James Knowlson 1996)

"I am not interested in a "unification" of chaos any more than I am in the "clarification" of the individual chaos, and still less in the anthropomorphisation of the inhuman necessities that provoke the chaos. What I want is the straws, flotsam, etc., names, dates, births and deaths, because that is all I can know....Meir says the background is more important than the foreground, the causes than the effects, the causes rather than their representatives and opponents. I say the backgrounds and the causes are an inhuman and incomprehensible machinery and venture to wonder what kind of appetite is that can be appeased by the modern animism that consists in rationalising them. Rationalism is the last form of animism. Whereas the pure incoherence of times and men and places is at least amusing."