tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post8655587543948417031..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Samuel Beckett: NothingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-92031389085749368332010-11-09T03:37:44.852-08:002010-11-09T03:37:44.852-08:00Yes, SarahA, and having you visit here makes Becke...Yes, SarahA, and having you visit here makes Beckett's Nothing seem like a very pleasant Something -- a helium balloon that has lost its string, perhaps. <br /><br />Lifting off.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-62314407529364888732010-11-09T02:57:13.796-08:002010-11-09T02:57:13.796-08:00It brings it all home, doesn't it? Puts everyt...It brings it all home, doesn't it? Puts everything into perspective, reading something like so.<br />Thank you Thomas, you always open windows to my Soul.SarahAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14791948357280208382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-21298083710911563932010-04-04T07:30:48.849-07:002010-04-04T07:30:48.849-07:00Lovely remarks, capturing the lightness and melanc...Lovely remarks, capturing the lightness and melancholy that are indeed two among the several tonalities of Beckett's nothing.<br /><br />It is interesting to consider how with this great writer, as I suppose with most people, ageing affects such sensings of the world, and the expression of them. <br /><br />The sense of the world often remains approximately the same though the tones in which it is expressed change over time.<br /><br />For example, see the two posts above this one, representing Beckett's writing from some 25 years later...TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-31361657478285241442010-04-03T07:55:45.205-07:002010-04-03T07:55:45.205-07:00These lines teem with alluring melancholy and at t...These lines teem with alluring melancholy and at the same time remind us of how tiny and imperfect we are in a universe so flawlessly designed. Thank you for sharing them, Tom.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-82995068289555940792010-04-02T16:16:41.705-07:002010-04-02T16:16:41.705-07:00The difference between waiting and being.
I espe...The difference between waiting and being. <br /><br />I especially like how he finds his ease in nature's indifference, instead of the usual fear of what that threatens. It is a relief to give way to whatever surrounds you, whatever is likely to go on without you. It's a perspective that frees from the burden of finding/forcing meaning, from the self as apart from to the self as a part of. <br /><br />Or maybe that's just my own consolation prize. Just reading "a being so light and free..." is a lovely gift.Annienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-31535247154336027862010-04-02T14:57:19.164-07:002010-04-02T14:57:19.164-07:00There's no hiding place from Beckett - beautif...There's no hiding place from Beckett - beautiful indeed..https://www.blogger.com/profile/00532376301529981186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-10096642671443519722010-04-02T10:38:05.884-07:002010-04-02T10:38:05.884-07:00Sounds that way to me also Lanny,
dust to dust an...Sounds that way to me also Lanny,<br /><br />dust to dust and dirt to dirt,<br /><br />something to come home to.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-51324060475425726042010-04-02T10:32:23.751-07:002010-04-02T10:32:23.751-07:00sounds like a blessing to me,
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the dirt rose ...sounds like a blessing to me,<br />from<br /><br />the dirt rose up and became mad,<br />to<br /><br />the dirt came home<br />to being dirt.<br /><br />lovely.Phanero Noemikonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-79665552565141542642010-04-02T07:40:47.005-07:002010-04-02T07:40:47.005-07:00Tom,
Beautiful, Beckett looking and looking (and ...Tom,<br /><br />Beautiful, Beckett looking and looking (and thinking), "sites of a stirring beyond coming and going". . . .<br /><br />4.2<br /><br />grey whiteness of clouds above shadowed<br />plane of ridge, motionless green leaves<br />in foreground, wave sounding in channel<br /><br /> a repetition in pen and ink,<br /> green the next moment<br /><br /> looking is to provide sight,<br /> the looking one, such<br /><br />shadowed cloud above sunlit green ridge,<br />white cloud in pale blue sky on horizonSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.com