Dream of Fair to Middling Women by Samuel Beckett

Author:Samuel Beckett
Language: nld
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2011-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

The only unity in this story is, please God, an involuntary unity.

Now it occurs to us that for the moment at least we have had more than enough of Belacqua the trinal maneen with his wombtomb and likes and dislikes and penny triumphs and failures and exclusions and general incompetence and pedincurabilities, if such a word may be said to exist. And though we had fully intended to present in some detail his more notorious physical particularities and before switching over to Dublin cause him to revolve for a rapid inspection before you, just as many and many a time he himself had caused to girate on its swivelling pedestal, the better to delight in its ins and outs and ups and downs, the dear little Buonarotti David in the Bargello, we let ourselves be so carried away by his feet, the state they are in, that we have no choice now, you will all be delighted to hear, but to renounce that intention. In particular we had planned to speak of his belly, because it threatens to play so important a part in what follows, his loins, his breast and his demeanour, and spell out his face feature by feature and make a long rapturous statement of his hands. But now we are tired of him. We feel, we simply cannot help feeling, that the rest must wait until we can all turn to it for relief.

Then we feel also that this hyphenating is getting out of hand. Cacoethes scribendi, the doom of the best of penmen.

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