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I hesitate, I hesitate to...

12/6/2021

HAMM:

What dreams! Those forests!
(Pause.)
Enough, it's time it ended, in the shelter too.
(Pause.)
And yet I hesitate, I hesitate to...to end. Yes, there it is, it's time it ended and yet I hesitate to –
(he yawns)
– to end.
God, I'm tired. I'd be better off in bed.

From Endgame: a play by Samuel Beckett, Translated from the French by the Author

finished, nearly finished, it must be

12/5/2021

CLOV (fixed gaze, tonelessly):
Finished, it's finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished.
(Pause)

From Endgame: a play by Samuel Beckett, Translated from the French by the Author

inherent in the material

11/27/2021

The story doesn't create mystery or contrive it; the mystery seems inherent in the material and will remain mysterious however bluntly told.

From The Art of Revision: The Last Word, Peter Ho Davies

revising us

11/26/2021

All our attention to revising a story, changing it, sharpening it, deepening it...and all this time it's been revising us.

From The Art of Revision: The Last Word, Peter Ho Davies

intend

11/24/2021

Not knowing what we intend isn't the same as having no intention.

From The Art of Revision: The Last Word, Peter Ho Davies

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