Watt by Beckett

admin — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:24:59 +0000

Episode 20’And the reason for that was perhaps this, that little by little Watt abandoned all hope, all fear, of ever seeing Mr. Knott face to face, or perhaps this, that Watt, while continuing to believe in the possibility of his seeing one day Mr. Knott face to face, came to regard its realization as one to which no importance could be attached,…’

Watt by Beckett

admin — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:38:38 +0000

Episode 19.What was this in Mrs. Gorman, what was this in Watt, that so appealed to Mr. Watt, so melted Mrs. Gorman? Between what deeps the call, the counter-call? Between Watt not a man’s man and Mrs. Gorman not a woman’s woman?

Watt by Beckett

admin — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:47:03 +0000

Episode 18.”So at first , in mind as well as body, Watt laboured at the ancient labour.As it turned out, Watt was never to know how long he spent in Mr. Knott’s house, how long on the ground floor, how long on the first floor, how long altogether. All he could say is that it seemed like a long time.”

Watt by Beckett

Tadhg McKenna — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:26:07 +0000

Episode 17. ‘Yes, nothing changed, in Mr Watt’s establishment, because nothing remained, and nothing came or went, because all was a coming and a going.Watt seemed highly pleased with this tenth-rate xenium. Spoken as he spoke it, back to front, it had a certain air, it is true.’

Watt by Beckett

Tadhg McKenna — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:47:57 +0000

Episode 16. ‘Watt wondered if Arsene, Walter, Vincent and the others had passed through the same phase as that through which Erskin then was passing, and he wondered if he Watt would pass through it too, when his time came. Watt could not easily imagine Arsene behaving in such a way, nor himself either for that matter. But there were many things that Watt could not easily imagine.’

Watt by Beckett

Tadhg McKenna — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:55:11 +0000

Episode 15. ‘For reasons that remain obscure Watt was, for a time, greatly interested, and even fascinated, by this matter of the dog, the dog brought into the world, and maintained there, at considerable expense, for the sole purpose of eating Mr. Knott’s food, on those days on which Mr. Knott was not pleased to eat it himself, and he attached to this matter an importance and even a significance, that seemed hardly warranted.’

Watt by Beckett

Tadhg McKenna — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:26:35 +0000

Episode 14. ‘Then they were very sorry for what they had said who had said it was her uncle Joe, and who said it was her uncle Bill, and who said it was her uncle Bill, and who said it was her uncle Jim, who had done this thing to Ann, for all three had confessed their sins, to the priest, prior to being carried away, and the priest was an old and intimate friend of the family.’….’The dogs employed to eat Mr Knott’s occasional remains were not long lived as a rule. This was very natural. For besides what the dog got to eat, every now and then, on Mr Knott’s back doorstep, it got so to speak nothing to eat.’

Watt by Beckett

Tadhg McKenna — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:57:58 +0000

Episode 13 ‘Passing on then to the solution that seemed to have prevailed, Watt found it roughly this, that a suitable local dog-owner, that is to say a needy man with a famished dog, should be sought out, and on him settled a handsom annuity of fifty pounds payable monthly, in consideration of his calling at Mr. Knott’s house every evening between eight and ten, accompanied by his dog in a famished condition, and on those days on which there was food for his dog, of his standing over his dog, with a stick, before witnesses, until the dog had eaten all the food until not an atom remained, and of his then taking himself and his dog off the premises without delay;…’

Watt by Beckett

Tadhg McKenna — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 20:32:30 +0000

Watt episode 12 ‘Watt’s instructions were to give what Mr Knott left of this dish, on the days that he did not eat it all, to the dog. Now there was no dog in the house, that is to say, no house-dog, to which this food could be given, on the days that Mr. Knott did not require it.’

Watt by Beckett

Tadhg McKenna — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:35:13 +0000

Episode 11
‘The constant tension of some of his most noble faculties tired Watt greatly. And the results, on the whole, were meagre. But he had no choice at first.’

Watt by Beckett

Tadhg McKenna — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 22:04:06 +0000

Episode 10
‘Watt’s stay in Mr Knott’s house was less agreeable, on this account, than it would have been, if such incidents had been unknown, or his attitude towards them less anxious, that is to say, if Mr Watt’s house had been another house, or Watt another man.
But if Watt was sometimes unsuccessful, and sometimes successful, as in the affair of the Galls father and son, in foistering a meaning there where no meaning appeared, he was most often neither the one, or the other.
Watt learned towards the end of his stay in Mr Knott’s house to accept that nothing had happened, that a nothing had happened, learned to bear it and even, in a shy way, to like it.’

Watt by Beckett

Tadhg McKenna — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:36:36 +0000

Episode 9
‘So Watt saw little of Mr. Knott. For Mr. Knott was seldom on the ground floor, unless it was to eat a meal, in the dining room, or to pass through it, on his way to and from the garden. And Watt was seldom on the first floor, unless it was when he came down to begin his day, in the morning, and then again at evening, when he went up to begin his night.’
‘This fugitive penetration took place shortly after Watt’s arrival. On his answering the door, as his habit was, when there was a knock on the door, he found standing before it, or so he realised later, arm in arm, an old man and a middle-aged man. The latter said: We are the Galls, father and son, and we are come, what is more, all the way from town, to choon the piano.’

Watt by Beckett

Tadhg McKenna — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:36:22 +0000

Episode 8
“But to go into this matter as longly and as deeply and as fully as I should like, and it deserves is unfortunately out of the question. Not that space is wanting, for space is not wanting. Not that time is lacking, for time is not lacking. But I hear a little wind come and go, come and go, in the bushes without, and in the henhouse the cock in his sleep uneasily stirs….
For it was really day again already, in some low distant quarter of the sky, it was not yet day again already in the kitchen.”

Watt by Beckett

Tadhg McKenna — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:15:07 +0000

Episode 7
“There are three men in the house: the master, whom as you well know we call Mr Knott: a senior retainer named Vincent, I believe; and a junior, only in the sense that he was of more recent acquisition, named, if I am not mistaken, Walter…. But the second, I mean Vincent, is not here any more, and the reason for that is this, that when I came in he went out.”
“And what is this coming that was not our coming and this being that is not our being and this going that will not be our going but the coming and being and going in purposelessness?”

Watt by Beckett

Tadhg McKenna — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:53:35 +0000

Episode 6
“And if I could begin it all over again, knowing what I know now, the result would be the same. … And if I could begin it all over again a hundred times, knowing each time a little more than the time before, the result would always be the same, and the hundredth life as the first, and the hundred lives as one.”
“Personally of course I regret it all. All, all, all.”

Watt by Beckett

Tadhg McKenna — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:59:02 +0000

Episode 5
“They are transports, that few are spared, nature is so exceedingly accommodating, on the one hand, and man, on the other.”…
“For the first time since in anger and disgust he relieved his mother of her milk, definate tasks of unquestionable utility were assigned to him.”…
“To hunger, thirst, lust, every day afresh and every day in vain, after the old prog, the old booze, the old whores, that’s the nearest we’ll ever get to felicity, the new porch and the very latest garden.”…

Watt by Beckett

Tadhg McKenna — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:24:27 +0000

Episode 4

“He knew, as he did so, that it would not be easy to get up again, as he must, and move on again, as he must. ”

“The result of this was that Watt never knew how he got into Mr. Knott’s house.”

“He is well pleased. For he knows he is in the right place, at last. And he knows he is the right man, at last.”

Watt by Beckett

Tadhg McKenna — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 20:43:01 +0000

Episode 3

“Watt bumped into a porter wheeling a milkcan.”…

“Mute on top of blind said the porter.” …

“Watt had watched people smile and thought he understood how it was done.”…

“Watt used his smile sparingly.”

“For they were moving in the same direction, lady McCann and Watt.”

Watt by Beckett

Tadhg McKenna — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:59:32 +0000

Episode 2

“As to where he is to be seen, he is to be seen in the streets, walking about. But one does not see him often.

He is a university man, of course, said Mrs Nixon.

I should think it highly probable, said Mr. Nixon.

Drink, said Mr Hackett.”

Beckett Watt Episode One

Tadhg McKenna — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:54:36 +0000

Episode 1

“Mr. Hackett decided, after some moments,that if that if they were waiting for a train they had been doing so for some time. For the lady held the gentleman by the ears, and the gentleman’s hand was on the lady’s thigh, and the lady’s tongue was in the gentleman’s mouth.”

“I do not rise, not having the force, said Mr. Hackett.”

“Yes, said Mr. Hackett, there are protuberances and protuberances .”