{"id":808,"date":"2009-07-30T22:14:02","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T02:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/?p=808"},"modified":"2014-08-29T22:16:27","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T02:16:27","slug":"samuel-beckett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/all\/samuel-beckett\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Beckett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; I do nothing, with as little shame as satisfaction. It is the state that suits me best. I write the odd poem when it is there, that is the only thing worth doing. There is an ecstasy of accidia &#8211; wiIlless in a grey tumult of id\u00e9es obscures. There is an end to the temptation of light, its polite scorchings &amp; consolations. It is good for children &amp; insects. There is an end of making up one&#8217;s mind, like a pound of tea, an end of patting the butter of consciousness into opinions. The real consciousness is the chaos, a grey commotion of mind, with no premises or conclusions or problems or solutions or cases or judgments. I lie for days on the floor, or in the woods, accompanied &amp; unaccompanied, in a coenaesthesia of mind, a fullness of mental self-aesthesia that is entirely useless. The monad without the conflict, lightless &amp; darkless. I used to pretend to work, I do so no longer. I used to dig about in the mental sand for the lugworms of likes &amp; dislikes. I do so no longer. The lugworms of understanding&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Beckett letter to Mary Manning Howe 30 August 1937<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; I do nothing, with as little shame as satisfaction. It is the state that suits me best. I write the odd poem when it is there, that is the only thing worth doing. There is an ecstasy of accidia &#8211; wiIlless in a grey tumult of id\u00e9es obscures. There is an end to the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-the-beautiful"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}