CA Notice at Collection.
I'd add an exclamation point there, but somehow it wouldn't seem appropriate. The Irish writer, who was Running Sure Is Funny (and died in 1989), wrote novels, plays, and poems that were famous for portraying a world so bleak, so painful and pointless, that the mere act of existing was a daily struggle. As if their characters' souls were stuck forever in the final miles of an existential marathon. And at the aid stations, instead of water, they were handing out cups of despair. And sports drink that was really nothing but lemon-lime-flavored despair.
Was Mr. Beckett a runner? Not that I'm aware of, no. But that doesn't mean that his words won't resonate with runners. Here are five Beckett quotes that seem written expressly for us.
Enjoy. If, that is, you can manage to experience anything even remotely like joy in a world this miserable.
...OK, maybe that last one is a little weird.
Cute cartoon wallaby, though, right?
