“They made a little too much music, that was the only fault I could find with them. If there is one thing that gets on my nerves it is music.”
Samuel Beckett, Molloy, 1951/5
Samuel Beckett, Molloy, 1951/5
Friday, February 19, 2010
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ReplyDeleteThe lute,
mine, that I never had,
broke on the dark
gray ground.
Rage at the ground
and unseen hands
at the lute
and never having.
"No, all I mean is this, that when I open staring wide my eyes I see at the confines of this restless gloom a gleaming and shimmering as of bones, which was not hitherto the case, to the best of my knowledge. And I can even distinctly remember the paper-hangings or wall-paper still clinging in places to the walls and covered with a writhing mass of roses, violets and other flowers in such profusion that it seemed to me I had never seen so many in the whole course of my life, nor of such beauty. But now they seem to be all gone, quite gone, and if there were no flowers on the ceiling there was no doubt something else, cupids perhaps, gone too, without leaving a trace."
ReplyDeleteBeckett, Malone Dies, 1952/56
my favourite extract about silent/broken music:
ReplyDeleteHere lies Lon Riley.
He hath not lute nor lyre
and mourns it
hardly.
4:33am.
Song eats
its own tail
and looses
its cookies
thereby.
Riley, The Scurvy Tunes