Beckett, a tennis fan, has some lines that can bolster tennis players. Or at least get them through long slogs.
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Samuel Beckett’s Tennis Advice
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Are We Watching Shakespeare or Beckett?
Friday When assuring my English majors that they will find jobs in the world beyond college, I sometimes point out that they are experts in narrative. Increasingly we are learning how much we process reality through stories, and political operatives talk ceaselessly about “controlling the narrative.” How you organize facts (or for that matter, lies) […]
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