January 2010
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J.M. Coetzee on Beckett's Fiction :
“The narrative premise of The Unnamable, and of How It Is (1961), is held onto in these [later] short fictions: a creature constituted of a voice attached, for reasons unknown, to some kind of body enclosed in a space more or less reminiscent of Dante’s Hell, is condemned for a certain length of time to speak, to try to make sense of things. It is a situation well described by Heidegger’s...
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Hsin Hsin Ming
“The Great Way is not difficult
for those who have no preferences.
When love and hate are both absent
everything becomes clear and undisguised.
Make the smallest distinction, however,
and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart.
If you wish to see the truth
then hold no opinions for or against anything.
To set up what you like against what you dislike
is the...