Uhlmann interprets Worstward Ho as a rigorous experiment in reduction whose destination is neither pure nothingness nor renewed ontological affirmation. Through Beckett’s iterative worsening, images, language, time and void are progressively diminished until they approach a limit at which further subtraction becomes impossible. Parmenides supplies the conceptual grammar of the one and the multiple, boundedness and boundlessness, motion and rest; Badiou provides a powerful but contestable account of event and persistence. Uhlmann’s close reading argues that Beckett reaches a stasis in which being and non-being become indistinguishable rather than allowing being to recommence beyond the limit. The method joins textual genetics, philosophical genealogy and minute formal analysis without converting literature into an illustration of philosophy. Its broader bridge concerns minimalism and conceptual practice: subtraction is shown to be productive only while a residual difference remains. The limit is not emptiness but the exact point where operation, language and continuation encounter their irreducible remainder.