These fragments I have shored against my ruins. -T.S. Eliot

These fragments I have shored against my ruins.  -T.S. Eliot
Showing posts with label Beckett. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beckett. Show all posts

Monday, June 18, 2012

A story is not compulsory


















"What am I doing, talking, having my figments talk, it can only be me. Spells of silence too, when I listen, and hear the local sounds, the world sounds, see what an effort I make, to be reasonable. There’s my life, why not, it is one, if you like, if you must, I don’t say no, this evening. There has to be one, it seems, once there is speech, no need of a story, a story is not compulsory, just a life, that’s the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough…"

-Beckett, Texts for Nothing #4


Art: Alighiero Boetti Mettere, (1978) ballpoint pen on paper

Saturday, June 2, 2012

Delirium perhaps








I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.

-Samuel Beckett


Image: Emmet Gowin, Pivot Agriculture, Washington, 1987