Leases of Lifelessness
Denis Donoghue, 7 October 1993
Beckett’s Dying Words
by Christopher Ricks.
Oxford, 218 pp., £17.50, July 1993,0 19 812358 2 Show More
by Christopher Ricks.
Oxford, 218 pp., £17.50, July 1993,
“... I doubt Ricks’s general notion here and wonder how it survived his transcription of Samuel Johnson’s reply to Miss Seward: ‘The lady confounds annihilation, which is nothing, with the apprehension of it, which is dreadful. It is in the apprehension of it that the horror of annihilation consists.’ Or Swift’s ‘Thoughts on Various ... ”