"This in haste to get something off my muckheap of a mind."
— Beckett, Samuel (1096-1989)
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Jan. 9, 1958
Metaphor
"This in haste to get something off my muckheap of a mind."
Metaphor in Context
Your letter of Jan. 5 today. Shall answer it properly (?) tomorrow or this evening. This in haste to get something off my muckheap of a mind. I received from Barney yesterday jacket of book and extracts from our letters, with no indication of what the latter was for. This disturbed me as I do not like publication of letters. I wrote to him at once saying I shd prefer the letters not to be used unless it was important for you that they should be. I see from your letter that it is and this is simply to say all right, go ahead ... Thanks for the photos, they do me full justice.
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Quoted in Sunday Book Review: Paul Muldoon, "The Letters and Poems of Samuel Beckett," New York Times (December 12, 2014). <Link to NYTimes.com>
Date of Entry
12/16/2014
