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Research profile: Bastian Reinert

Bastian Reinert wrote 1 hour ago: Bastian Reinert studied German and North American Literature as well as History at the FU Berlin, th … more →

Tags: Austrian Research (general), elfriede jelinek, Frankfurt School, german, Heiner Müller, Ingeborg Bachmann, Jewish-Austrian Identity, Jewish German, narratology

The Badger's Literary Pilgrimage: The Library at Trinity College Dublin1 comment

JG wrote 8 hours ago: The Long Room While a library has existed at Trinity College Dublin since the university’s fou … more →

Tags: literary pilgrimage, Bram Stoker, Culture, Dublin, Ireland, Jonathan Swift, Library, Oscar Wilde, Travel

Samuel Beckett- Waiting For Godot (dir Samuel Beckett) Part One and Two

clawfish wrote 11 hours ago: Becketts own version of his play and here is part 2 … more →

Tags: Absurdist, Acting, Actor, Art, Author, Drama, Emotion, English, language

When does something make you...or break you?2 comments

zozespot wrote 1 day ago: How do you decide that something is going to make you stronger or break you down entirely? It is a d … more →

Tags: Random, Depression, Exams, Failure, (Hard) Work, Psychology, Quotes, studies, University

Ghosting Herbert Blau

chaszak wrote 1 day ago: Herbert Blau, 1926-2013 One of the great privileges of my life is to have known pioneering theater d … more →

Tags: theater, Books, Theater, Herbert Blau, bob white theater portland, William Shakepeare, Waiting for Godot, hamlet, interpretation

Waiting

Daniel wrote 1 day ago: “Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It’s awful.” In one line, Samuel Beck … more →

Tags: Response, Death of the Author, existentialism, Isn't it pretty to think so?, Literary Analysis, Waiting for Godot

'Fail better'

Ed Mostly wrote 2 days ago: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” Samuel Beckett … more →

Tags: Body, From Life!, hands, Inks, Pencil, sketching, watercolour sketch, coloured ink water-brushes, Fail Better

Samuel Beckett Stares at a Wall

Glenn Wallis wrote 3 days ago: [Meditation] is a faith, with the sufficiency of faith, intended by necessity to remain empty but wh … more →

Tags: constructivists, meditation, Practice

(always the case for a while for a little while the mind on maybe the heart on something on)

J C W wrote 3 days ago: always the case for a while for a little while the mind on maybe the heart on something on the body … more →

Tags: Heart, somehow, always, Body, Mind, Then, ON, IT, Really

NOTHING VIRAL. NO MATTER.

Martin Raybould wrote 4 days ago: “It will be I, it will be the silence, where I am, I don’t know, I’ll never know, … more →

Tags: ageing, Belief, Blogging, Books, Fiction, loneliness, Philosophy, Poetry, writing

It Ain't Half Hot, Dad!

lizardyoga wrote 4 days ago: Many thanks for all the kind comments yesterday on Lizardyoga’s Weblog’s fifth anniversa … more →

Tags: Friends and Family, Poems, The madness of Mark, TV reviews, All roads lead to rome, Ancient Rome, Ben Elton, Comedy writers, Dad's Army

John Wayne on Courage

Katherine wrote 4 days ago: And Marion Robert Morrison would know.  As a young man, he applied to the U.S Naval Academy, but was … more →

Tags: About Work, Business, John Wayne, Courage

I Suck at Description9 comments

Graham Milne wrote 5 days ago: The sky was blue. The sand was not. That’s my mea culpa for the day.  If I had to rank my perceived … more →

Tags: Graham's Adventures in Publishing, aaron sorkin, Bulwer Lytton Awards, description, holodeck, Ian Fleming, Inception, James Bond, Joyce Carol Oates

"Try. Fail. Try...1 comment

megery wrote 5 days ago: “Try. Fail. Try again. Fail better.” –Samuel Beckett “You have not failed un … more →

Tags: Lessons, When My Words Aren't Enough, Quotes, Gordon B. Hinckley

Quote: Samuel Beckett

Dante wrote 6 days ago: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” … more →

Tags: Quote, Writing Advice

(detail yes maybe detail that’s the problem)

J C W wrote 6 days ago: detail yes maybe detail that’s the problem the thought that detail is crucial that without detail I’ … more →

Tags: James Joyce, Stéphane Mallarmé, Marcel Proust, Way, Thought, pure, of course, belly, Maybe

(you will notice also as an aside)

J C W wrote 6 days ago: you will notice also as an aside what Beckett did after all the darkness after all the failure notic … more →

Tags: write, nohow on, Life, Wall, At last, Again?, old, // True +, Literature

(usual situation a project an idea comes to mind)

J C W wrote 6 days ago: usual situation a project an idea comes to mind the way towards the dreamt better irremediably it dr … more →

Tags: Usual, Way, Mud, dream, worse, weak, Mind, better, of course

Wallace's War Against Irony2 comments

Shane wrote 1 week ago: Last year’s most famous literary tweet was a harsh criticism of the late David Foster Wallace by Bre … more →

Tags: American Literature, American Psycho, apocalyptic novels, art and immorality, art and moralty, Bookworm, Bret Easton Ellis, bret Easton ellis and irony, Bret Easton Ellis tweets


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