The insertion of the finger and the wound itself are both signs of the limits of vision. As Phelan goes on to suggest, the wound in Christ's body opens up an interiority that painting cannot expose, thus underscoring the limit of the look. 3 The skin of the body becomes the skin of ...
3. On Beckett’s late prose and the significance of theNoli me tangereiconographical tradition, see Houston Jones,Samuel Beckett and Testimony, 99–104. 4. J.M. Coetzee, introduction to Beckett,Poems, Short Fiction, Criticism