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Re: a sliver of light in-between two eternities of darkness."
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I'm grateful to Carolyn for providing the reference to Beckett. VNs phrase
had always sung in my head with on odd familiarity. But I had read Godot
about 20 years before reading Speak, and could never place it. I think,
though, that the image or idea has a much earlier provenance and probably is
one of the universal thoughts or images. Isn't a similar image in Beowulf,
with a bird flying in one window of the mead hall and then flying out a
window on the other side?
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From: "Donald B. Johnson" <chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu>
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Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 2:02 PM
Subject: Fwd: Re: a sliver of light in-between two eternities of darkness."
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> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:41:11 -0800
> From: "Donald B. Johnson" <chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu>
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> > "They give birth astride a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's
> > night once more." *
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> > "The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our
> > existence is
> > but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. ... " **
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> > I've always thought this an almost unbelievable coincidence of similar
> > expressions.
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> > Carolyn
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> > * Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
> > ** Speak Memory (VN)
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