...threatens to assume the terrifying certainty of a final shape. A last word about the Purgatories. Dante's is conical and consequently implies culmination. Mr....spherical and excludes culmination. ... In the one, absolute progression and a guaranteed consummation: in the other, flux—progression or retrogression,...

...Purgatoire. Voici ce qu'il écrit à propos de Finnegans Wake: A last word about the Purgatories. Dante's is conical and consequently implies culmination. Mr....spherical and excludes culmination. [...] In the one, absolute progression and a guaranteed consummation: in the other flux progression or retrogression,...

...dancing, the words dance") and in a comparison between Dante's Purgatory and that of Joyce ("Dante's is conical and consequently implies culmination. Mr. Joyce's is spherical and excludes culmination"). Already there is much of the later Beckett in this essay: literature is not for the bookkeeping kind...

...Beckett writes in 'Dante... Bruno. Vico.. Joyce' (1929): "A last word about the Purgatories. Dante's is conical and consequently implies culmination. Mr Joyce's is spherical and excludes culmination" (1984, 21-22). In Joyce, however, being will still be round, and as Bachelard observed Images of full...

...sleep. [ . . . ] When the sense is dancing, the words dance" ("Dante" 27); and: "Dante's [Purgatory] is conical and consequently implies culmination. Mr Joyce's is spherical and excludes culmination" ("Dante" 33). In Churchill's Blue Heart (19 97), a dramatic diptych, the anguish of waiting for one's...