LITERATURE - Samuel Beckett 

Thank you T for your trenchant post: the point you emphasize in your selected quote, a summary of Beckett's struggle to convey, the naval gazing of these posters waiting for some magic upload of an apotropaic phrase that will solve their life conflicts. You may be the single guy (I assume you are a guy, and single) poster who was impacted by the boredom of waiting....for some poster to say something of his pain.

Thank you so much for this text

@@eugenefrankmd5433 Why do you include the "MD" in your RU-vid username, Eugene? Just wondering.

WOW. So funny. So fresh. Actors can do SO MUCH with that.

Great play.

And hella inaccurate as well.

@@shielinglai1599 care to elaborate?

@@shielinglai1599 yes please elaborate. i would like to know if what i'm learning should be unlearnt due to inaccuracy

Nexus won't reply because he's a knoblord

You may be getting this content for free but they get paid millions from ad and RU-vid revenue

Ah, yes!

I agree! As a brazilian and also a latin-american, there are so many writers they can talk about, like Neruda, Gabriel Garcia Marquez (nobel prize), Clarice Lispector, Machado de Assis, Guimarães Rosa, José Saramago (portuguese, also nobel prize laureate) etc. Although they've been producing great videos, literature exists beyond europe and united states.

Gary Loor, They should make Julio Cortazar as well, his work is fantastic

Yea!

+Gustavo Soares I wish they would do one on Machado do Assis, he's my favorite luso writer. Him and Fernando Pessoa

Chema Vazquez Indeed! He would make a great video. But i think if the channel wants to start big with hispanic writers, it should be with Borges. Borges or Cervantes

amreen shaju best of luck with your exam next week :)

Thank you very much, with English as my second language, this means a lot to me.

amreen shaju As you're a School of life viewer at the age of 15/16, I have great faith in you to succeed without knowing you.

School of life has taught me many things, and I am forever in debt to this channel. But it is people like you who spend a minute of their day to say something positive that in turn brings a great effect to one's day- ever so subtly, that will ultimately be the cause for a positive change in the world. So all I can say is- thank you.

amreen shaju Another reason I like SOL is even though the world is full of different people with many cultures, they bring too light how very similar we all are deep down inside. Most people from all cultural backgrounds just want to love and be loved, to live peacefully and to provide a safe educational environment for our children and loved ones. Amreen I hope you have a brilliant day full of love and happiness. :)

If this comment wasn't made an year ago I could've very well reported it lol

this didn't age well

the joke went over my head. please explain

Still true too. Life is like a feet

@@abdullahmohammedali192 i think he's just making an absurdist joke about how Dan made some good shows and that means he holds the meaning of life.

Joel Fry THE UNNAMEABLE is almost unbearable.

Waiting for Godot was the greatest theater I've seen so far. I loved laughing my head off while also feeling intense empathy and wonderment. I'll be looking for his other later works, too, such as Molloy. I tell my Christian friends that "Perhaps" is a reassuring response, not an alienation to creeds.

nietzsche wasnt a nihilist

Rahman Firoz : Hense, fable meaning 'little lie'; perhaps !

Joe Yes!

Yes that’d be amazing

Ted ed has one

I need help in his novel...dream of a middling women...I cant understand it...can you help

Kind of* typo

" You are human beings nonetheless. As far as one can see Of the same species as myself" I find these words very helpful when I get stuck with certain type of very difficult people. I mean the kind of people, where you need to make an enormous effort to understand. In this case it would be good to keep Beckett in mind together with Terence who said: " Nothing human is alien to me". 2. " Perhaps" is a very wise word indeed. A psychologist once said that the greatest sign of mental health is " flexibility". That's why a person who is full of rock solid convictions and certainties cannot be very sane, despite seeming very confident .It seems that becoming wise doesn't mean to be more and more certain over time, but rather learning to be more "at peace with uncertainty". There is an incredible RADIOLAB podcast episode about this, it is called " Are you sure". . For friends who may not know, that's a two-time Peabody Award winner, incredible podcast. They sometimes spend 2 years investigating for one episode. Don't miss it! 3. Talking about how complex the truth can be, I remembered these words by the Nobel Laureate Physicist Frank Wilczek: “You can recognise a deep truth by the feature that its opposite is also a deep truth.” If you want to know more, you can hear him talking about this on an " On Being with Krista Tippett" podcast. 4. It is very true that we are either in the past or in the future. Always craving for something that we don't have. It has a lot to do with our terror of death too. As long as you wish to have this and that, you don't have to think about the fact that there will be a LAST day. But Meditation helps enormously. I have found the following lines in a book I liked a lot. " Re-igniting your innate human curiosity is a wonderful way of dealing skilfully with the frantic world in which we so often live. You'll soon discover that although you feel time-poor, you are actually MOMENT-RICH. " ( From " Mindfulness" by Mark Williams) Thanks a lot for this valuable lesson and for the wonderful animation. What I loved the most is the part when you talked about "a fragile necessary grace".

Do the Banana Splits. Please.

"To know that you can do better next time; indescribably better, and that there is no next time, and that it is a blessing there is not. There's a thought to be going on with."

He didn't experience it as a humiliation. The attitude you portray is immature. Beckett largely succeeded in leaving most of such poseur allures behind him after the war.

Good quote.

That's a fair question. Shame they did not get back to you.

How is such a terrible writer 'in spirit of this channel'?

de ce sa faca cu eminescu? n-a avut niciun impact international

Teodora Goidea eram doar curios cum l-ar expune Alain. Dar de ce spui "niciun" . Am fost odata intr-o excursie si am trecut pe langa mormantul lui Eminescu si erau 2 tineri care ii aduceau un omagiu si recitau versuri. Am intrat in vorba cu ei si am fost uimit sa vad ca erau nemti( dar care erau maaari fani ai lui Eminescu)

frumos! no, eu zic că e puțin probabil să fie de interes - totuși, e un autor obscur pe plan european, chiar dacă ne convine sau nu. că sunt oameni care au auzit de el și le place poezia romantică, adolescenți.. mă rog. cred că dacă ar face despre vreun autor român, cărtărescu, dan lungu sau gabriela adameșteanu ar merita expuși mai degrabă.

gica craioveanu vream autori români cu impact international? Tristan Tzara, Ionescu, Eliade.