integral man who mimes the acrobat in an elaborate drama of 
incompetence. Beckett sees the bicycle as the sign and symbol 
of specialist futility in the present electric age, when we must 
all interact and react, using all of our faculties at once.

     Humpty-Dumpty is the familiar example of the clown 
unsuccessfully imitating the acrobat. Just because all the 
King’s horses and all the King’s men couldn’t put Humpty-
Dumpty together again, it doesn’t follow that electromagnetic 
automation couldn’t have put Humpty-Dumpty back together. 
The integral and unified egg had no business sitting on a wall, 
anyway. Walls are made of uniformly fragmented bricks that 
arise with specialisms and bureaucracies. They are the deadly 
enemies of integral beings like eggs. Humpty-Dumpty met the 
challenge of the wall with a spectacular collapse.