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The Sound of speaking Samuel Beckett – Happy Birthday

Rule Number One Take note one from pocket one and suck it! (take a listen to the above link) Beckett and love Beckett never reduces love to the amalgam of sentimentality and sexuality endorsed by common opinion. Love as a matter of truth (and not of opinion) depends upon a pure event:  an encounter whose […]

Farewell Adrienne Rich – A valediction forbidding mourning

I tried to get a copy of A valediction Forbidding Mourning for us today, to whisper quietly together about the passing of the sublime and beautiful Adrienne Rich. Copywrite laws forbid it, but I found something better.  A young woman reading it for us.  Take a look:     Isn’t that lovely? Adrienne Rich’s ‘A […]