Tag: self

‘Me, myself and I’ (slight reprise)

June 17, 2016 1 Comment
‘Me, myself and I’ (slight reprise)

Since writing about Billie Holiday’s song Me, myself and I, the question of ‘who is I?’ has been gnawing away inside my mind.  A couple of weeks ago I picked up a second-hand book in Thirsk that’s turned the gnawing into a gnashing.  The book is called Into the silent land, and it’s by a […]

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Buster Keaton and Samuel Beckett

March 16, 2015 0 Comments
Buster Keaton and Samuel Beckett

Buster Keaton, the twentieth century’s greatest comic, and Samuel Beckett, its most naked and unillusioned writer, once collaborated on a short silent film, based on Beckett’s only film script. I hadn’t realised this till yesterday. Or maybe I did know at one time, but forgot long ago – a common enough Beckettian condition. It was […]

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