Samuel Beckett @TextContraText

Writer, thinker, artist, dead man. Buried in Montparnasse, where the view is just so-so. Paris, France Joined May 2010

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Samuel Beckett @TextContraText

a week ago

Cloudless. May day. She joins you in the little summerhouse. A rustic hexahedron. Entirely of logs. Both larch and fir.

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a week ago

(41) Bloom of adulthood. Imagine a whiff of that. On your back in the dark you remember. Ah you you remember.

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Samuel Beckett @TextContraText

4 weeks ago

These perceptions, as the base components of our mnemonic narration, are then (re)communicated by us to others, again through a socially shared and textual system of thought, language, and written communication as text.

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Samuel Beckett @TextContraText

4 weeks ago

The subject's perception of the self and its place in the world are comprehended and communicated through the text.

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Samuel Beckett @TextContraText

a month ago

There is nothing outside the text, for the subject's perception of the world is within the text (or by way of thought, language, and mnemonic narration as text).

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Samuel Beckett @TextContraText

a month ago

At the confluence of our subjective sense of the self as protagonist in the world (space, time, reality), there is the ever-expanding penetration of the linguistic text.

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a month ago

The abstract narration of the self/ event by the material text alone becomes, then, an integral component of that consciousness.

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a month ago

Once the world is saturated by text, the text not only supplements/ replaces, but erases, human memory as a primary function of the human consciousness, and the desire to remember.

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Samuel Beckett @TextContraText

a month ago

...comes to supplement and replace human memory in ever greater degree.

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a month ago

As texts proliferate, and memory becomes less necessary, then the existing body of texts, as a record of the human narrative...

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Samuel Beckett @TextContraText

a month ago

...of this shift in Western societies from an almost exclusive reliance upon human memory to a shared reliance upon human memory and the written text as memory, or the text as supplement for, and replacement of, human memory and the medium of speech.

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Samuel Beckett @TextContraText

a month ago

We regard the late proliferation (20th century) of text-based "interrogations of reality," including phenomenology, the analytical or linguistic philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, post-structuralism, and deconstruction, as a socio-intellectual by-product of an advanced stage...

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Samuel Beckett @TextContraText

a month ago

...and consequently a decline in the power of memory, the ability of a people to remember well, then the text may be regarded as both a supplement to, and replacement of, human memory.

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a month ago

(xx) Text as Memory: If the proliferation of writing as a socially-shared receptacle for past experience results in the decline of oral literatures, poetry, and dramatic presentations....

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Samuel Beckett @TextContraText

2 months ago

...and better/ more clearly defined in the "mind" of the Hearer/ protagonist, who is "see[ing] the scene. As [he] could not at the time."

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Samuel Beckett @TextContraText

2 months ago

Since the protagonist is presently "looking in" on this past event as though from an outside perspective, the present re-experience of this past event is much "clearer" than at the time of actually experiencing it....

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Samuel Beckett @TextContraText

2 months ago

...and as the "one" now "lying on his back in the dark" describing/ imagining this related memory of/ to himself (re-experiencing this past event in the present situation).

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Samuel Beckett @TextContraText

2 months ago

* This is another Mnemonic Unit describing/ imagining the Hearer/ protagonist in both his past and present situation. The 2nd Person Voice "speaks" of/ to him as a man walking through the countryside (a past experience)...