SAMUEL BECKETT: Watt

[MrStanley4me]

fuck em all Sammy i'm with you !!

ORDER

[iambenbenson]

Nice take there at the end on Nietzsche's Eternal Return.

[mojonproductions]

My favorite Beckett novel. Thanks! And speaking of unspeakable repetition, after I first read Watt I decided to read it again. And so I did. Upon completion I decided I'd have another go. And somewhere around the time that all that neck craining takes place, in some cases to see nothing more than the back of someone's head, my mind refused to go on. I could no longer continue, not even Bando would cure this had I any, which is so unBeckettlike I had to laugh at the irony.

[zaynzaynzayn]

thanks for the memory

[MrStanley4me]

@zaynzaynzayn

well how could you Forget !

[Karolus112]

He touched something important...

[Grifiki]

"The idiot thinks he is Richard the Turd. he may as well be he talks a load of Sh%$."

[oldbag010101]

Oh, fuck you see you in heaven or hell

who really cares

GOOD_BYE

[oldbag010101]

sums it up beautifully

[oldbag010101]

Miserable Bastard

[etaatbeta]

.....sleep.......

[marketing010101]

Talk is good , talk talk talk keep talking for what else is left but to talk

[etaatbeta]

having read a couple of amazon reviews,I was a little reticent on reading this lest it negate my love of Beckett as the greatest ever novelist...non-sensical neo-burroughsesque was implied...how wrong they were...if you want the fullest account possible on how a neurotic,thinks,acts and lives.........THIS IS IT!!!!!

[TheOldEchoes]

@etaatbeta Critic!

[marketing010101]

@TheOldEchoes

Order

[oldbag010101]

@TheOldEchoes

You say you will die soon yeh ?

when i look in the mirror i think i will die sooner fact !

may the better person win Good Luck

[oldbag010101]

@TheOldEchoes

fuck you old tears come back to planet Earth ,

Forever Yours

[marketing010101]

watt aload of krapp



[marketing010101]

@TheOldEchoes

I watt you old fart ?

Lucky ? What a flippen joke to be left on this earth with bleedin echoes like you about .

[marketing010101]

@marketing010101

and dew tink ur so smart

[suprenzza]

not at all away and scratch yourself

[suprenzza]

" not at all way and scratch yourself "

[SilencetoSilence]

Splendid. Hopefully, I'll soon upload a documentary concerning Beckett that isn't on YouTube. All the best.

[kifn2]

This is wonderful. His intonations speak volumes. I guess this is more proof that one can't just read Beckett.

[panfred1]

noob...

[sparkmanua]

This guy is awesome!! idk what he did but apparently it had something to do with his mother's mother's mother and his father's father's father though, lol

[mobxila]

This dudes a fucking genious!!

[chewie8514]

oh boy

[sgt7]

I my view, Beckett's genius is found in his bare, honest inventory of things and his ability to communicate this.

[jonno52]

@sgt7 I agree. From "Watt":

"Mr Hackett did not know when he had been more intrigued, nay, he did not know when he had been so intrigued. He did not know either what it was that so intrigued him. What is it that so intrigues me, he said, whom even the extraordinary, even the supernatural, intrigue so seldom, and so little. Here there is nothing in the least unusual, that I can see, and yet I burn with curiosity, and with wonder."

Inventoried craving for clarification, endlessly intriguing.

[anksphenomenon]

I think this guy has a huge resemblance with Satan. His throw of words is very morbid, freddie like.

[Chesterton7]

Still my favorite.

[oldmusicman1]

Beckett's "Watt" has been my favorite book for many years. Thanks for recognizing his genius and posting this bit.

[RafikBuriro]

Sir jee, kia keh rahe ho. Kasam se tere Waiting for Godot ki trah ye bhi ek bra drama ha. Specially fathers mothers part.

[thaddeuslowe]

LOLZ @ Watt!

[thegeeess]

y0ure right, g0es great as a dubstep v0ca1

[leeHendy]

this rules

[goback3spaces]

I'm beginning to get a complex about Beckett. I can't listen to this. It seems like empty tedious phraseology to me. I hated Krapp's Last Tape in college, and now I've just read Happy Days in preparation to see a friend act in it. I thought it pointless. Can someone help me with this? Am I missing something, or is it a case of the Emperor's New Clothes?

[Chesterton7]

i think you're right!

but i personally found this particular excerpt and the entire book (WATT) to be incredibly funny, outrageous, touching and beautiful. but mainly funny.

[Plurabella]

I suppose Beckett's work revolve around concepts of meaning of life and what people construct to make meaning of their lives. It moves towards the idea that life is absurd. We are born and then we die. Beckett is tough stuff in a way. His characters are disembodied from reality and that construct their own. Read what you read out loud. And If you can see Waiting for Godot do. I think by seeing that it is pointless you have found a part of what Beckett does. Thanks for posting this.

[goback3spaces]

And thank you for taking my post seriously. I guess it depends on one's definition of "pointless." I love theatricality, drama, art in general, as I think it tends to express a concept of universal humanity. And because there is a perceived universality, I wouldn't jump to the nihilistic affectation that life is indeed pointless and absurd. We are our brother's keeper, so to speak, and therein lies the point of our lives. Beckett's work seems not to express or live up to this concept.

[tubingism]

You are without doubt right when you say that "we are born and then we die". There must be something good that we can do in the meantime.

[elzuwolfe]

He takes that phraseology and recreates a mundane world out of it, placing it back right back where it was to begin with. Which could be considered to be the most potent theatre of all, because it is true. He has created an artform that is a direct repica of what it is meant to display, the only difference is that it is now art and not reality.

[tubingism]

always look out for the funny bits in Beckett! They counteract the sad bits. Both necessary.

[morphybum]

A hoot. Compare with Dylan Thomas. Who would have thought the two had so much in common?

[JerryX68]

I like!

[simonforman01]

Beautiful. Thank you.

[zubkiewicz]

try again!

jerzy

[anycolouryoulike86]

Perfection.

Thanks Terence :D

[Chesterton7]

Best reading from my favorite book.

Thank you for posting this.

[mahoodworm]

Brilliant.

Maybe the most famous extract from Watt; had never heard Jack Emery's reading of it - nice to be able to compare it to Jack McGowran's version. Where and when is this recording from? Did he record any more from this novel? Is it available commercially? What other readings has he done? Answers on a postcard please!

[terencenunn35]

He akso did recordings of bits from From an Abandoned Work,Malone Dies, Endgame and the Unnameable. I may put them on in due course!

[malvu65]

Please do, Terence !!!!

[terencenunn35]

Unfortunately, at present I am unable to upload to YouTube. The connection always fails about halfway through. I keep trying!

[oldbag010101]

@terencenunn35

Fortunately

[Klankumz]

@terencenunn35 Thanx for uploading this! It's awesome!

[oldbag010101]

@mahoodworm

Do You Need More ???