PhD student writing on Thomas Pynchon and the Posthuman Gothic. Literary & critical theory, aesthetics, ecology. All views are my own, etc. 
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It seems the yuppies have come for Beckett. #literature #Beckett
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2014/01/samuel_beckett_s_quote_fail_better_becomes_the_mantra_of_silicon_valley.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_bot … via @slate
Beckett: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” Also Beckett: “Try again. Fail again. Better again. Or better worse. Fail worse again. Still worse again. Till sick for good. Throw up for good. Go for good. Where neither for good. Good and all.”
First the MBAs came for Sun Tzu, and I did not speak out, for I was not a Sinologist. Then the yuppies came for Machiavelli, and I did not speak out, for I was not a political scientist. Then they came for Beckett, but there was no one left to speak.
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