Tag: Samuel Beckett
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Queer Stuff (Part 2)
I met Maurice on Friday evening. We were at the Wellcome Collection symposium on “What makes a Good Death?”, and sinking free drinks which were on offer after we had heard a literary talk about Death chaired by Prof Steven Connor. The professorial choice was mostly very polite and Anglo-dignified, but at the end (at last) there…
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Waiting for…
It is the 60th anniversary of the first performance of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot – the first performance in French (En Attendant Pour Godot) was on January 5th 1953 in Paris. The first English version of the “tragicomedy” was performed on 3rd August 1955 It has been with us nearly all our lives – A…
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Radical Tradition: Landstreicher
There was Vagabond Literature before Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, and there always will be; vagrants and tramps who write, and others such as ‘Wolfi Landstreicher’, nom-de-plume of a contemporary anarchist philosopher (who edited a Journal called “Wilful Disobedience” from 1996 to 2005). Landstreicher / Vagabond brings back to mind the pivotal photograph taken by August…
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- ATELIER Work – about-creative-work (in all mediums: text-drawing-sounds-image etc)
- CLIMATE Action – indications-and-contra-indications
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- IN Conversation – companionship-and-connections
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- OTHER than Human – animate-and-inanimate-terrestrial-kin
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Different WORDSTALL Categories in the past supported the mainly experimental personal writing in posts. The previous list of Category headings was: Anti-gravity Surgery / Atelier / Catastrophe Games / Echo Effects / Exodus / Fundamental Perversions / Hitting the Potholes / Holy Fool-Hero / In Conversation / Old Men Traveling / On the Street / Out in the Wilderness / Over and Beyond / Tonite at the Coliseum. Some of these still persist or recur as Tag key-words.
The even earlier Category headings for the walkingtalkingwriting blog (2006-2012) have been forgotten, but can be explored if desired via the long tail of monthly posts for those years here.