 | Frederick Busi - 1980 - 172 pagina’s
...Beckett published Watt and expressed a pragmatic compromise in the conflict between form and content: "For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak...of God is to speak of him as though he were a man, which to be sure he was, in a sense, for a time, and as the only way one can speak of man, even our... | |
 | Christine Brooke-Rose - 1981 - 460 pagina’s
...could not accept . . . that nothing had happened, with all the clarity and solidity of something ... for the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something' ( Watt 1 1945) 1953; 1958: 83-4). A paradox, moreover, worthy of the best Baroque imaginations. The... | |
 | Jonathan Kalb - 1991 - 292 pagina’s
...Beckett writes in Watt , we may sometimes observe the unknowable by comparing it with the knowable: For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak...of God is to speak of him as though he were a man, which to be sure he was, in a sense, for a time, and as the only way one can speak of man, even our... | |
 | John Richetti, John Bender, Deirdre David, Michael Seidel - 1994 - 1094 pagina’s
...nothingness can only be circumscribed by Watt's words, which prove to be self-canceling. Watt realizes that "the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak...of God is to speak of him as though he were a man." Both God and the real have no adequate place in the symbolic order of language. They can only be given... | |
 | Andrew Gibson - 1994 - 308 pagina’s
...affair of the Galls, father and son and its possible significance or insignificance. He speculates that: the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak...speak of God is to speak of him as though he were a man...and as the only way one can speak of man.. .is to speak of him as though he were a termite.1... | |
 | Shira Wolosky, Shira Wolosky Weiss - 1995 - 356 pagina’s
...restatement of negative definitions of God, for example, Watt mocks the claims of positive analogy: "For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak...of God is to speak of him as though he were a man. And as the only way one can speak of man ... is to speak of him as though he were a termite" (77).... | |
 | Daniel Katz - 1999 - 232 pagina’s
...is invoked to create to the very extent that it succeeds in creating it. As Beckett wrote in Watt, "the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something" (77). The "as though" points to the necessarily figural nature of all such representations, and over... | |
 | David Weisberg - 2000 - 206 pagina’s
...continued to mean nothing, as some continued to mean nothing, that is to say, right up to the end. For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak...of God is to speak of him as though he were a man . . . and as the only way one can speak of man, even our anthropologists have realised that, is to... | |
 | Paul Heinemann - 2001 - 428 pagina’s
...allegorischen Schreibens und dessen innere Zersetzung in Form von .blancs' indirekt Ausdruck zu verleihen: „For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it äs though it were somethmg, just äs the only way one can speak of God is to speak of him äs though... | |
 | Marius Buning, Matthijs Engelberts, Sjef Houppermans - 2002 - 344 pagina’s
...continued to mean nothing, as some continued to mean nothing, that is to say, right up to the end. For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as thought it were something, just as the only way one can speak of God is to speak of him as though he... | |
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For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something, just as the only way one can speak of God is to speak of him as though he were a man... 
