Teatro Grottesco, White Noise and Annihilation seem to all deal with the same problem of language: that the more you try to define, capture or explain some thing, the more that that thing slips, distorts and recedes from view, until all that you have is empty formalism, the structure and process of language devoid of the content that propelled its original enactment. Language is always a haunting, for it speaks in the absence of the real thing. It re-enacts, but as a re-mediation (into the symbolic); therefore, in our movement towards meaning, we render ourselves meaningless, or, at least, monstrous, uncanny, wrong. Language is an expression of meaning's impossibility to ever be a thing. Through language then, the thing can only ever be expressed as no-thing.