21 Replies to “The nearly perfect Samuel Beckett post, reprise (from the protein wisdom conceptual series)”

1. Defense Guy says:

   January 31, 2006 at 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. Jeff Goldstein says:

   January 31, 2006 at 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. B Moe says:

   January 31, 2006 at 9:16 pm

   I wonder how they feel about Dalton Trumbo?

4. mojo says:

   January 31, 2006 at 9:42 pm

   Too terse.

5. Russ says:

   January 31, 2006 at 9:44 pm

   !

6. godot says:

   January 31, 2006 at 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. TODD says:

   January 31, 2006 at 9:58 pm

   ?

8. RS says:

   January 31, 2006 at 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. Beck says:

   January 31, 2006 at 10:42 pm

   Vladimir: That passed the time.
   
   Estragon: It would have passed in any case.
   
   Vladimir: Yes, but not so rapidly.

10. Beck says:

    January 31, 2006 at 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. McGehee says:

    January 31, 2006 at 11:11 pm

     

12. RS says:

    January 31, 2006 at 11:23 pm

    McGehee wins.  I mean, it’s clear.

13. KM says:

    January 31, 2006 at 11:45 pm

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

14. OHNOES says:

    February 1, 2006 at 12:07 am

    Bah, no Sam Beckett post is perfect without Al.

15. Charlie (Colorado) says:

    February 1, 2006 at 12:16 am

    We’re waiting.

16. quiggs says:

    February 1, 2006 at 12:45 am

    “Your conarium has shrunk to almost nothing.”

17. Robert Crawford says:

    February 1, 2006 at 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. Jeff Goldstein says:

    February 1, 2006 at 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. BoZ says:

    February 1, 2006 at 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. SarahW says:

    February 1, 2006 at 1:56 am

    Beckett Jokes?

    A: Why did the barmaid Champagne?
    
    B: Because the stout porter bitter.

21. Robin Roberts says:

    February 1, 2006 at 2:41 am

    So these posts don’t require a seasonal reference?

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