Four Quartets – T.S. Eliot
3 Books by Samuel Beckett
Dark side of emergent literature – Becket
“Every word I write is a stain upon silence.” – Becket.(?) When he won the Nobel Prize
Vocab: Plurosis – filling up – used for romance or comedy(marriage)(Finnegan’s
Wake)
Kenosis – emptying out -
Via Negativa
Movies: It Happened One Night
HW: Take one page at random and OWN it. Memorize.
Do not read Becket’s book from page 1, begin on 91. Just to humor Dr. Sexson
BOOK 1 TO READ: Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Monday 1/18/10
Extra credit to anyone who laughs at Beckett and blogs it!
Read Kathasaritsagara over weekend
“Finnegan’s Wake has everything in it.” – Sexson
FACT: Joyce went blind and had to dictate Finnegan’s Wake to a secretary. The
secretary was Beckett
Joyce wants to put everything into Finnegan’s Wake
Beckett wants to take everything out.
Ben Lubner will be coming in to open for Finnigen’s Wake on …
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