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Tuesday, 5th May 2009

From John Banville's TNR review of The Letters of Samuel Beckett, 1929-40:

In London, Beckett considered a number of possible day jobs, toying with the notion of becoming an airline pilot or--wait for it--an advertising copy writer. (There is food for a dinner-party game, devising the jingles that Beckett might have thought up for washing powder or diapers.)

Quite so! Readers are therefore invited to suggest advertising copy that could have been written by Mr Beckett...

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ndm

May 5th, 2009 9:28pm Report this comment

out ... bright ... white ... dazzled ... whiteness

ndm

May 5th, 2009 9:29pm Report this comment

Not to forget the great man's own travel-ad copy in Waiting for Godot:

-- Charming spot
-- Inspiring prospects
-- Let's go

Dog Snob

May 5th, 2009 10:19pm Report this comment

It's futile to talk.

mac

May 5th, 2009 10:37pm Report this comment

Krapp's Last Tapeworm - Gone with Praziquantel!

MattF

May 5th, 2009 11:54pm Report this comment

Beckett on diuretics:
I can't go, I'll go.

njb

May 6th, 2009 1:04am Report this comment

for a fast-food chain:

Puke the puked puke down your gullet until you begin to like it

Marshall

May 6th, 2009 3:13am Report this comment

Soap stains on the clothes, so it goes, so it goes, until Ivory, then, so it goes.

Marbury

May 6th, 2009 9:53am Report this comment

For Betterware home storage:

"Fail Again. Fail Betterware."

Ronnie

May 6th, 2009 10:17am Report this comment

For railway companies:

'And if (it) doesn't come?

We'll come back tomorrow.

And then the day after tomorrow?

Possibly.'

logdon

May 6th, 2009 11:28am Report this comment

New improved Godot! Take the waiting out of wanting.

logdon

May 6th, 2009 11:37am Report this comment

Looking for the ultimate video thrill? Try Endgame!

logdon

May 6th, 2009 11:48am Report this comment

New improved Godot! Take the waiting out of wanting.

Mills

May 6th, 2009 9:53pm Report this comment

Nothing to express, but American Express

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