Tag Archives: Samuel Beckett Krapp’s Last Tape

conversations with a younger self: 69 rewinds

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Dave

Compressions of the soul…. After a time, the lights go down, and when they come up again, Krapp sits in the chair, the recorder cover in his lap. It is his birthday, the one day each year when he records … Continue reading →

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spooool! : rewinding the farewell

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Dave

Memory. Remembering is really not a memory at all, but an experience. Remembering is actually a living consciousness that binds and plugs the nature of experience to a more distant memory, say, an ancestors arrival in America; it is to … Continue reading →

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endgames: withered by invisible burning rays

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Dave

Laughter at your own risk. Heinrich Heine once wrote, “Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle. So there’s to you, that tiresome crowd who have always pinched their mouths at … Continue reading →

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high risk laughter: nausea of existence

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Dave

“Sleep is lovely, deaht is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.” Heinrich Heine …Samuel Beckett and the celebration of the nausea of existence, which often has little to do with despair. In Beckett’s Krapp’s … Continue reading →

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