In 1967 a young woman, Sighle Kennedy, was working on her dissertation about the work of Samuel Beckett. She wrote him a letter, asking him to evaluate the validity of her thesis. Beckett wrote a short note back that included the following sentence: "If I were in the unenviable position of having to study my work, my points of departure would be the 'Naught is more real . . . ' and the 'Ubi nih...

This essay reads work by Samuel Beckett, especially his prose, with a focus on vegetal ontology and plant life, soil, mud, dirt. By juxtaposing Beckett recent fiction, e.g., the Netflix series Stranger Things, contemporary theory, general ecology of Erich Hörl, posthuman entanglements relations are discussed as part an ontological infrastructure in texts, which can also be linked to Beckett’s i...