Did he really say that?

The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = GEORGE CARLIN...Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES...Music is the mathematics of the gods = PYTHAGORAS...Nothing is more fluid than language = R.L.SWIHART

Monday, July 15, 2013

Murphy Gets A Blast At Auction



BECKETT'S FIRST NOVEL "MURPHY" ACHIEVES $1.4 MILLION AT SOTHEBY'S



But how much more pleasant
was the sensation of being
a missile without provenance
or target,caught up in a tumult
of non-Newtonian motion.
So pleasant that pleasant
was not the word.

Samuel Beckett
Murphy




$1,400,000 ≈ £962,500

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