January 31, 2006
The nearly perfect Samuel Beckett post, reprise (from the protein wisdom conceptual series)

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~fin~

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  1. Comment by Defense Guy on 1/31 @ 8:57 pm #

    Caving to tbogg?

    I always suspected you craved the sweet, sweet adulation of the left.  It’s Cameron Diaz isn’t it?  I mean when she’s not talking that is.

  2. Comment by Jeff Goldstein on 1/31 @ 9:03 pm #

    “The demon lies.  But he mixes lies with really really really long sentences that rely on punctuation other than the traditional full stop—the em dash, the semi-colon, the paranthetical—to confound you.”

    —Father Lancaster Merrin ,The Exorcist

  3. Comment by B Moe on 1/31 @ 9:16 pm #

    I wonder how they feel about Dalton Trumbo?

  4. Comment by mojo on 1/31 @ 9:42 pm #

    Too terse.

  5. Comment by Russ on 1/31 @ 9:44 pm #

    !

  6. Comment by godot on 1/31 @ 9:47 pm #

    I kept waiting and waiting for those two, and nobody shows up……

    Where?  Well, why didn’t they say so? Keeping a simple appointment….

  7. Comment by TODD on 1/31 @ 9:58 pm #

    ?

  8. Comment by RS on 1/31 @ 10:35 pm #

    Father Karras:  I think it might be helpful if I gave you some background on the different personalities manifested. So far, I’d say there seem to be three……

    Father Merrin:  There is only one.  And many inanimate objects.  As well as the occasional dolphin clad in a peacoat.

  9. Comment by Beck on 1/31 @ 10:42 pm #

    Vladimir: That passed the time.

    Estragon: It would have passed in any case.

    Vladimir: Yes, but not so rapidly.

  10. Comment by Beck on 1/31 @ 10:46 pm #

    alt: “Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.”

    -Tom Stoppard

  11. Comment by McGehee on 1/31 @ 11:11 pm #

     

  12. Comment by RS on 1/31 @ 11:23 pm #

    McGehee wins.  I mean, it’s clear.

  13. Comment by KM on 1/31 @ 11:45 pm #

    I can’t get this fucking dot off my screen.

  14. Comment by OHNOES on 2/1 @ 12:07 am #

    Bah, no Sam Beckett post is perfect without Al.

  15. Comment by Charlie (Colorado) on 2/1 @ 12:16 am #

    We’re waiting.

  16. Comment by quiggs on 2/1 @ 12:45 am #

    “Your conarium has shrunk to almost nothing.”

  17. Comment by Robert Crawford on 2/1 @ 1:34 am #

    I can’t get this fucking dot off my screen.

    Sounds like a dead pixel. Move the scrollbar, if it moves along, you’ve got a moving dead pixel. You’ll need a new monitor.

  18. Comment by Jeff Goldstein on 2/1 @ 1:39 am #

    You’ll need a new monitor.

    Or at the very least, the move toward post-modernism (or is it?), a quintessential example of which may be Infinite Jest.

  19. Comment by BoZ on 2/1 @ 1:41 am #

    In response to news of the Alito confirmation vote, Samuel Beckett drops his part in the long sonata of the dead to scream a quote from Ill Seen Ill Said on his Kos diary :

    WHITENESS! MORE AND MORE EVERY YEAR! AS WELL SAY EVERY INSTANT! EVERYWHERE EVERY INSTANT WHITENESS IS GAINING!

    …

    (Yeah. Beckett jokes are hard to make.)

  20. Comment by SarahW on 2/1 @ 1:56 am #

    Beckett Jokes?

    A: Why did the barmaid Champagne?

    B: Because the stout porter bitter.

  21. Comment by Robin Roberts on 2/1 @ 2:41 am #

    So these posts don’t require a seasonal reference?

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