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Nohow On: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho QUOTES

Nohow On: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho QUOTES

1 " Seen no matter how and said as seen. Dread of black. Of white. Of void. Let her vanish. And the rest. For good. "

― Samuel Beckett , Nohow On: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho

2 " You lean back against the door with bowed head making ready to set out. By the time you open your eyes your feet have disappeared and the skirt of your great coat come to rest on the surface of the snow. The dark scene seems lit from below. You see yourself at the last outset leaning against the door with closed eyes waiting for the word from you to go. To be gone.Then the snowlit scene. You lie in the dark with closed eyes and see yourself there as described making ready to strike out and away across the expanse of light. You hear again the click of the door pulled gently to and the silence before the steps can start. Next thing you are on your way across the white pasture afrolic with lambs in spring and strewn with red placantae. "

― Samuel Beckett , Nohow On: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho

3 " Hold the old holding hand. Hold and be held. Plod on and never recede. Slowly with never a pause plod on and never recede. "

― Samuel Beckett , Nohow On: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho

4 " So he is. So that faint uneasiness lost. That faint hope. To one with so few occasions to feel. So inapt to feel. Asking nothing better in so far as he can ask anything than to feel nothing. Is it desirable? No. Would he gain thereby in companionability? No. Then let him not be named H. Let him be again as he was. The hearer. Unnamable. You. "

― Samuel Beckett , Nohow On: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho