#Worstward Ho

[dedalvs]

Hi so my question is about semantics and translation. Is it more about culture? Is it more of an art than a science? The problems just seem to compound the more I think about it. Thanks for the help. (Your book was great btw)

When it comes to what words we use to express meaning, it's both art and convention. That is, we use words in a way that we expect hearers to understand, but we also like to stretch things a bit. This is why we can read new literature and find turns of phrase that surprise us. It all has to work in a way that someone will be able to understand, but you'd be surprised how far you can stretch things (see Samuel Beckett's Worstward Ho, for example). So yeah, probably a lot more art than science. It holds for translation, as well. Translation is not merely finding the simplest most accurate way of saying something from language A in language B. This is why literary translation is so difficult, and why there are such things as "bad" translations and "good" translations. It's why the Seamus Heaney edition of Beowulf was so exciting when it came out. For many readers, the text was much more exciting (indeed, the first version I read was rather dull—especially when compared to other epics I'd read), and it was because of the choices he made in rendering the text in modern English—and that was a translation from our own dang language many centuries prior! You can imagine what faces the translator of a text from a different language.

In short, yeah...

#language #translation #beowulf #seamus heaney #samuel beckett #worstward ho

[earlgraytay]

So I just read Worstward Ho! for the first time and uh

hot damn

I wish I could do that with language

#samuel beckett #worstward ho #modern literature

[driftlessarearev]

Espresso Shots: Nohow On: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho, by Samuel Beckett

Small-sized reviews, raves, and recommendations. Via Russell Dalrymple: So what have you two come up with? Jerry Seinfeld: Well, we’ve thought about this in a variety of ways, but the basic idea is, I would play myse… George Costanza: Uh, may I? Jerry Seinfeld: Go ahead. George Costanza: I think I can sum up the show for you in one word. Nothing. Russell Dalrymple: Nothing? George…

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#ayin #Beckett #book reviews #books #Company #fiction #gontarski #Ill Seen Ill Said #kabbalah #Malone Dies #Molly #Nohow On #nothing #samuel beckett #seinfeld #The Unnamable #Worstward Ho

[kvetchlandia]

Steve Schapiro Samuel Beckett Looking at Parrot, New York, City 1964

"All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." Samuel Beckett, "Worstward Ho" 1983

[l1beramente]

“Ho sempre tentato. Ho sempre fallito. Non discutere. Prova ancora. Fallisci ancora. Fallisci meglio.

— Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho.

[guttervpixie]

there should be more hard rock bands that make me feel like a pirate, and what I mean by "makes me feel like a pirate" I mean "sound like 'Worstward Ho!' by shinobu"

#himiposting

[gammm-org]

[marcogiovenale]

worstward più di sempre

io continuo a postare robe di letteratura, di arte, anche tra poco, sì.però che stiamo affondando, Worstward Ho, è chiarissimo. l’Italia fasciodiretta e nana, e i maggiorenti eurostatunitensi del genocidio palestinese, poi tutta la combriccola delle banche al seguito, o forse in testa.gli intelletti attuali italini vedono il genocidio e mosca, zitti, o non vedono, chi lo sa.a Gaza continuano a…

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#arte #Gaza #genocidio #letteratura #Palestina #poesia #pulizia etnica #sionismo #sionisti #testi di mg in rete #testi di mg online

[liamphilpadvanceddarkroom]

Critique

Alongside the decision regarding the Worstward Ho reference, the outcome of the critique was that my ideas around a 'proof' image don't require the secondary contextual image (formatted as a diptych) - the reason to leave this concept behind is an aesthetic decision to avoid the work feeling scientific/clinical.

[cilawarncke]

On Screwing Up

Or, Why Good Teachers Aren’t Know-It-Alls Photo by Seema Miah on Unsplash “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.“ Samuel Beckett’s words (from the novella Worstward Ho) are an arch rallying cry for MFA types. They have never set well with me. Blame a lifetime of planting the flag of my self-worth in the quicksand of perfectionism. Blame Puritan-Prussian…

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#Carol Dweck #educators #English teacher #growth mindset #Samuel Beckett #teaching #writing teacher

[jindongkt]

サミュエル・ベケット『いざ最悪の方へ』 at PARA Samuel Beckett ‘Worstward Ho’ 演出：額田大志、出演：矢野昌幸 めちゃめちゃヤバくて面白かったの一言。公演後トークも。 矢野さんお身体大切に。というか生き抜いてくれ。 https://instagr.am/p/Cn84jNHSCar/

#IFTTT #Instagram

[tellio]

"Fail Better" Doesn't Mean the Same to Everyone

“Fail Better” Doesn’t Mean the Same to Everyone

Near the end of Beckett’s life he wrote this in his short essay, “Worstward, Ho!” “First the body. No. First the place. No. First both. Now either. Now the other. Sick of the either try the other. Sick of it back sick of the either. So on. Somehow on. Till sick of both. Throw up and go. Where neither. Till sick of there. Throw up and back. The body again. Where none. The place again. Where none.…

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[a-h-87769877]

“First the body. No. First the place. No. First both. Now either. Now the other. Sick of the either try the other. Sick of it back sick of the either. So on. Somehow on. Till sick of both. Throw up and go. Where neither. Till sick of there. Throw up and back. The body again. Where none. The place again. Where none. Try again. Fail again. Better again. Or better worse. Fail worse again. Still worse again. Till sick for good. Throw up for good. Go for good. Where neither for good. Good and all.” -Samuel Beckett, “Worstward Ho” 1983

#samuel beckett #Beckett #quote #failure #creativity #fail #fail again #fail better #fail worse

[elizabethanism]

“Enough. Sudden enough. Sudden all far. No move and sudden all far. All least. Three pins. One pinhole. In dimmost dim. Vasts apart. At bounds of boundless void. Whence no farther. Best worse no farther. Nohow less. Nohow worse. Nohow naught. Nohow on.

Said nohow on.”

— Beckett

from “Worstward Ho”

#samuel beckett #Worstward Ho #Nohow #Sudden #Void

[intentionandwork]

“Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”

Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho

#samuel beckett #worstward ho

[toofarforgracie]

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”

--  Samuel Beckett

#Worstward Ho #book