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The Biggest Life Raft
The fact that the universe is not locally real is one of the more disquieting discoveries of the last half-century.
— The Space Academy
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“Over the Christmas vacation of 1926–7, there was much animated discussion at Cooldrinagh as to what Beckett should do when he finished his degree the following autumn. Taciturn as usual when he himself was the subject of the conversation, Beckett said as little as possible. He had a clear idea of what he did not want to do, which included law and chartered accountancy, the subjects that his tutor, the philosophy don, A. A. Luce, had written on his tutorial card as the careers that Beckett had indicated he might follow on his arrival at Trinity College — perhaps for the sake of having something to write down.”
– James Knowlson, Damned to Fame: The Life of SAMUEL BECKETT
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The world and the Gods are dead or alive according to the condition of our souls. A world view that perceives a dead world or declares the Gods to be symbolic projections derives from a perceiving subject who no longer experiences in a personified way, who has lost his immagine del…
