Here’s the link:
https://gc-cuny.zoom.us/j/5406553898?pwd=TTlZK3FLTUQ2MkxYUmRJS0dxTmdxdz09

a(https://gc-cuny.zoom.us/j/5406553898?pwd=TTlZK3FLTUQ2MkxYUmRJS0dxTmdxdz09)nd here’s the passcode:

885224

Try this passcode:

885224

For those interested, here are links I’ve tracked down to some of the pieces Mary Ann listed in her surrprosepoemsortof.doc:

Oscar Wilde – The Artist
https://www.wilde-online.info/poems-in-prose.html

Fiona Macleod (William Sharp) – The White Merle
https://www.bartleby.com/360/7/121.html (The White Peacock)

Frans Erens – Golden Song
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The Ruykeyser poem is extraordinary, Mary Ann. Thanks for sharing it – I hadn’t known it previously.

Not quite so resonant, but with lines I find myself recalling (“Great Nature has another thing to do/To you and me…/This shaking keeps me steady”) is Roethke’s “The Waking”:

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I…[Read more]

Click “Library”

Click “Add New Item” (at top)

Drop down “Choose a type” menu

Click “Upload a file”; choose your file and click “open” to attach it

Click “Upload” at the bottom of the page

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I am by no means a Beckett scholar, but from a little fleet googling I conclude that the collocation of the Nohow On titles with “Stirrings Still” on the cover of your edition is an editorial decision meant to foreground and bring together the late prose.

It also appears (from googling!) that Worstward Ho was written in English and declared by B…[Read more]

Beckett translated it himself. “Ill seen Ill” said is one of three novels making up the volume Nohow On, the other two being “Company” and “Worstward Ho,” which were not translated by Beckett himself. I don’t know what their titles in French were/are, nor whether Nohow On existed as a collection in French before being assembled in English.

I just came across this quotation from Wittgenstein:

“…it’s damned hard to write things that make blank sheets better…”

A good fit for Beckett’s paragraph.

Does anybody know where it’s from?

Thanks for the update, Marilyn.

Josh

Thanks for the reply, Maureen. I guess I’ll hang on for a while yet!

Are we open for business? My zoom link is hanging. Josh

As a commited practitioner of elegant variation myself, I was surprised by the LRB letter-writer’s statement that “it is a commonplace that good English doesn’t mind and often prefers repetition” and decided to do some research, beginning with the history of the phrase, which apparently goes back to Fowler’s The King’s English.

Among Fowler’s ex…[Read more]