Thursday, March 18, 2010

"That’s right, wordshit, bury me, avalanche, and let there be no more talk of any creature, nor of a world to leave, nor of a world to reach, in order to have done, with worlds, with creatures, with words, with misery, misery."

6 comments:

jereme said...

what is this from?

BLAKE BUTLER said...

Beckett's Texts for Nothing (#9)

Stephen Tully Dierks said...

reminds me of the Virginia Woolf phrase, "I have done with words." I always liked that one

Stephen Tully Dierks said...

have you read "how it is," blake? i'm about halfway through. it's pretty amazing.

Stephen Tully Dierks said...

beckett has such an incredible command as a writer, such impeccable shift from abstract to concrete until there doesn't seem to be a distinction anymore

hema said...

reminds me of the Virginia Woolf phrase
http://www.egypt-panorama.com/