{"id":19978,"date":"2016-02-23T12:12:34","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T17:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=19978"},"modified":"2016-02-23T12:12:34","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T17:12:34","slug":"from-dream-of-fair-to-middling-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2016\/02\/from-dream-of-fair-to-middling-women.html","title":{"rendered":"From &#8216;Dream of Fair to Middling Women&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><div id=\"attachment_20352\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Dream-of-Fair-to-Middling-Woman-Beckett.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20352\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20352\" data-attachment-id=\"20352\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2016\/02\/from-dream-of-fair-to-middling-women.html\/dream-of-fair-to-middling-woman-beckett\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Dream-of-Fair-to-Middling-Woman-Beckett.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"240,341\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Dream of Fair to Middling Woman (Beckett)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Beckett&amp;#8217;s first novel, written in 1932.&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;font size=2&gt;Posthumously published in 1992.&lt;\/font&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Dream-of-Fair-to-Middling-Woman-Beckett-211x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Dream-of-Fair-to-Middling-Woman-Beckett.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Dream-of-Fair-to-Middling-Woman-Beckett.jpg\" alt title=\"Beckett&#039;s first novel, written in 1932, posthumously published in 1992.\" width=\"240\" height=\"341\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Dream-of-Fair-to-Middling-Woman-Beckett.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Dream-of-Fair-to-Middling-Woman-Beckett-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20352\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beckett&#8217;s first novel, written in 1932.<br \/><font size=2>Published in 1992, posthumously.<\/font><\/p><\/div>He moved with the shades of the dead and the dead-born and the unborn and the never-to-be-born, in a limbo purged of desire . . . If that is what is meant by going back into one\u2019s heart, could anything be better, in this world or the next? The mind, dim and hushed like a sick-room, like a chapelle ardente, thronged with shades; the mind at last its own asylum, disinterested, indifferent, its miserable erethisms and discriminations and futile sallies supressed; the mind suddenly reprieved, ceasing to be an annex of the restless body, the glare of understanding switched off.<br \/>\n&#8212; Samuel Beckett <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dream_of_Fair_to_Middling_Women\">\u2018Dream of Fair to Middling Women\u2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He moved with the shades of the dead and the dead-born and the unborn and the never-to-be-born, in a limbo purged of desire . . . If that is what is meant by going back into one\u2019s heart, could anything be better, in this world or the next? 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