"There are passages, such as the one below, where the patterns of the words on the page are spellbinding. Reading them induces a trance-like state, as writing them must have, too:" https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/the-alternative-facts-of-samuel-becketts-wattI then composed music for my Smith College music composition class - to be performed at Smith by a professional singer with instrumentation. She painfully grimaced at the notes, asking me if I was sure that is what I had written. I used Samuel Beckett's addendum as my inspiration.
I tried not to laugh when she asked me - I didn't mean to make her feel pain but rather to expose the Western music as inherently wrong.
Beckett ends “Watt” with an “Addenda,” containing “precious and illuminating material” not included in the main text because of “fatigue and disgust.” The last of this miscellany is a famous injunction: “no symbols where none intended.” It places the reader in a position similar to Watt regarding the locked door. How do we know which symbols were intended? What if none were intended?It's interesting that Beckett could not get WATT published - it was routinely rejected - not until his GODOT play got famous. Admittedly I am not really familiar with Godot.
The plain reader will simply complain of boredom.Exactly - what better means to cast off the "plain reader"?!
So I read Ulysses by James Joyce while in the cabin in Alaska - just south of Denali - what a great view of Denali we had! The steepest mountain in the world! That book's main purpose in my view was also "spellbinding" and to "induce a trance-like state" - and so now I discover that Beckett was Joyce's assistant!!
Thus the “over-production” of prepositions, participles, conjunctive combinations, etc subverts what would normally be thought of as literature’s productive, metaphoric function: the symbol.https://tastetowaste.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/samuel-beckett-watt-1953/
yes like a Celtic monk or Buddhist monk....
yes in China to be vegetarian is considered to be more socially upward, as a Buddhist and in Nepal this is also part of "Brahminization" - for the lower castes or tribes people want to be more like a Brahmin priest vegetarian. In fact God or Brahman is from the Indo-European root word meaning Bull and so the Cow or Bull is sacred in India just as it is secretly sacred in the West. There is a good book about Brahmins that secretly eat beef - despite not being supposed to do so. In our original human culture - the San Bushmen - the oldest spiritual training is called the Eland Bull Dance, done by the female at first menstruation, surrounded by all the other females in the tribe. The female at first menstruation is considered to be a male Bull because the male Bull has the strongest N/om energy due to having the most fat around the heart.
So there is a direct connection between the N/om (snake kundalini as life force or Tree of Life energy that is forbidden in the West) and diet. The young female is not allowed to eat the staple diet of the fatty Monongo Nut - because her natural life force hormones are so powerful that a fatty diet will make her too lusty and drive her insane. The young male at the peak of his life force N/om is then required to fast for a month while doing trance dancing - this is to learn to store up and transform the N/om (that turns into an electromagnetic force rising up the spine called "boiling energy"). So the males are taught to visualize fire at the base of the spine. This is the origin of alchemy with fire under the water to turn wood into steam. So fire was sacred for the original human cultures - and the females were required (are still doing this) to sleep on the left hand side of the fire while the males sleep on the right. This is mirrored in the human body - so for males the left hand is yang because females are yang INTERNALLY while males are yang externally. So in the West we think of the right hand as being "dominant" but in fact it is the left hand.
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