Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (Source: bettertobequotable)
soredemonao:
Beckett
quiescences:
you’re the tattooed infection, deception
seeping through my skin
an everyday occurrence, assurance
that you’re always there but listen-
you’re a virus, a sickness
seizing through my heart, restart
tell the doctor one thing:
it was the wrong prescription, affliction
and now you-
are my addiction
i’ve decided honey booboo child is the champion for body image here in america. she embraces herself and her stomach as a WINNING feature instead of a negative. you go honey booboo child. you go.
(via tyleroakley)
oh my gosh. it’s a fish. in a tic tac container. PORTABLE FISH! i’m doing this and every class i go to i will pull my mini-fish out and it shall sit on my desk and watch me as i take notes.
(via puredestruction)
(Source: tempetempe)
literalab:
Literary confinement: Part II – canon fodder and writing in the default mode
In a recent article on revivals of plays by Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter, Los Angeles Times theater critic Charles McNulty uses the occasion to identify some shortcomings in contemporary theater that apply equally, if not even more closely, to contemporary fiction. He distinguishes the work of these two modern greats not only in degree from playwrights active today, but more importantly in the foundations their work arose from:
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Photo - A performance of Samuel Beckett’s Quad at ARTSaha! 2006 in Omaha, NE by the Blue Barn Theater’s Witching Hour, photo by Molly Fitzpatrick
“Perhaps most importantly was the fact that he didn’t put these disciplines in different, unrelated categories, as if he were majoring in drama and minoring in philosophy. They were all connected to how and what he was going to write”
Love this description. I think a further point to be made would be that the categorization and separation of subjects is what creates a lack of cultural movement and greater life concept. Existentialism, Romanticism, etc weren’t just literary movements but also encompassed a point of view on life that can only come from embracing and dissecting multiple facets of life.
sumones:
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Top 10 Creepiest Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar = one of my favorite Poe stories
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i want to go. i will cancel my plans to go study in a monastery in order to glorify beckett.
(Source: myimaginarybrooklyn)
GPOY. I was totally that girl in high school with quill pens. Haters gonna hate.
(Source: elizabethcarolk)
My answer:haha isn’t it amazing!! it somehow combines my favorite animals into one plus a bonus hipster triangle thrown in!
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(via love-trust-fairydust)
(Source: fishimawesome, via puredestruction)
(Source: swag-ilious, via puredestruction)
(Source: pitchblackglow, via love-trust-fairydust)