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Showing posts with label samuel beckett. Show all posts
12 Nov 2025

An Open Letter to Simon Reynolds on Malcolm McLaren and the Art of Living Like a Hobo

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Simon Reynolds and Stephen Alexander    I.   Thank you for your remarks on a recent post entitled ' Destroy Success ' (7 Nov 2025), ...
9 Oct 2024

And Then What: Random Thoughts on Samuel Beckett

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Fig. 1: Photograph of Samuel Beckett by Roger Pic (1977)   Fig. 2: Arthur Atkinson as Hogg in Beckett's one-act play And Then What    (B...
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27 Nov 2023

I Have Nothing To Say

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Jiggs the Chimp as Ollie's evolutionary predecessor in   the Laurel and Hardy film Dirty Work , (dir. Lloyd French 1933)       Sometime...
18 Aug 2021

Cocoon Above! Cocoon Below! Notes on Chapter 2 of Metamorphoses by Emanuele Coccia

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Emanuele Coccia: Associate Professor at the   École des hautes études en sciences sociales     What kind of man likes the idea of shutting ...
7 Feb 2021

Lobster Variations (I - IV)

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Nobuyuki Shimamura: Fantasy Lobster (2013) Hoki Museum Collection, Chiba, Japan    I.   Such is my fascination with lobsters at the moment ...
27 Oct 2020

On Travel/Writing (with a Deleuzian Punchline)

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  Have monogrammed trunk will travel    To consider travel writing is one thing: but to conceive of literature as travel is something else;...
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11 Jun 2013

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

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It's true that we learn from failure. But we don't learn how to succeed in the future, no matter what feeble-minded o...