[OCTOBER 2026.]
Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples. La mar no tiene naranjas.
A student recalls Beckett’s lectures from a 1931 course at Trinity College:
I remember his assessment of the Racine situation, A loves B and B loves C but there is no mutual desire. He called it “the great pagan tiger of sexuality, chasing its tail in outer darkness.”
Apparently he also drew a diagram, which seems very on brand.
Andromaque (the most terrible play of Racine, thought Beckett) actually has a four-term directed path, A → B → C → D, exactly the same as the middle of A Midsummer Night’s Dream when the potion goes sideways. So what’s the difference? “Temperament”!
