Abstract
Beckett’s work, like Egyptian myth, relates the sexual life to the life of pure spirit. Both do this by delving into and exhibiting a mythology of incarnation.
Myth is the history of the soul. The history of the ego, with its succession of kings and empires, technologies and wars, is what we were all taught in school.
William Irwin Thompson
When you listen to yourself, it’s not literature that you hear.
Beckett
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Davies, P. (2000). Beckett and Eros: Mentioning the Unmentionable. In: Beckett and Eros. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230286931_1
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