December 2009
7 posts
From 22 December’s Today In Literature | 24 Empire Ave | St. John’s | Newfoundland | A1C 3E6 | Canada Samuel Beckett died on this day in 1989. The disciples, hangers-on and “Sammists” sought Beckett out in even greater numbers during his last years, hopeful of a marketable comment on the famously obscure plays. Beckett was rarely forthcoming, but the biographies abound...
“The air of the room chilled his shoulders. He stretched himself cautiously along...”
– mad bad and dangerous to know: The Dead by James Joyce (via faithandbegorrah)
Ulysses banned in a US prison →
“She raises her arms in an effort to hook at the nape of her neck a gown of black...”
– from Giacomo Joyce
“[P]aintings, biographies, and critical studies are only evaporations of the...”
– Peter Costello, James Joyce