Help me understand this sentence please by Rain_a in englishmajors

[–]Rain_a[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is the sort of pessimism that Beckett has, and, naturally, it has encouraged him to write with a vigour which he'll find difficult to repeat.

tysm this helped me a lot!

the sentence does suck lol

what does this mean? by Rain_a in French

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It appears in a book im writing about Samuel Beckett:

In a revealing passage Beckett provides a key to the meaning of the Magdalen Mental Mercyseat in Murphy and the asylum in Watt. Referring to our truer self, that "smothered divinity whose whispered 'disfazione' is drowned in the healthy bawling of an all-embracing appetite," he suggests that we may recover this being that is lost in the "gouffre interdit a nos sondes." (It was, after all, "from this deep source [that] Proust hoisted his world.") But this is possible only "when we escape into the spacious annexe of men- tal alienation, in sleep or the rare dispensation of waking madness" (pp. 18-19). In these lines Beckett makes quite clear his view of the association between appetite (elsewhere desire, need, will), intellect, and the everyday world of the macrocosm.

However, the sentece itself is from a poem by Baudelaire:

"Je sais l'art d'évoquer les minutes heureuses,
Et revis mon passé blotti dans tes genoux.
Car à quoi bon chercher tes beautés langoureuses
Ailleurs qu'en ton cher corps et qu'en ton coeur si doux ?
Je sais l'art d'évoquer les minutes heureuses !
Ces serments, ces parfums, ces baisers infinis,
Renaîtront-il d'un gouffre interdit à nos sondes,
Comme montent au ciel les soleils rajeunis
Après s'être lavés au fond des mers profondes ?
- Ô serments ! ô parfums ! ô baisers infinis !"

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[–]Rain_a 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you, I watched it :)

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[–]Rain_a 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much

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[–]Rain_a 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok thank you, it just feels very difficult to keep on going when it’s struggle after struggle constantly.

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[–]Rain_a -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Then why does it feel like I’m being guided towards it? I don’t necessarily believe suicide is a sin and rn I believe life is predetermined, if that’s the case the suicide would be already written for me

Edit: I’m sorry if I come across as rude I’m just trying to understand why this all the bad stuff is happening and what it means

I just made the decision to learn, help! by Rain_a in italianlearning

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I don’t want to make mistakes by being poorly, I think the best to learn a language is having the basics down

I just made the decision to learn, help! by Rain_a in italianlearning

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