{"id":6334,"date":"2013-05-14T10:57:22","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T14:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=6334"},"modified":"2013-05-14T11:05:29","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T15:05:29","slug":"an-absurd-debate-about-the-last-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2013\/05\/an-absurd-debate-about-the-last-word.html","title":{"rendered":"<center> An Absurd Debate About the Last Word<\/center>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2013\/05\/an-epitaph-for-our-golden-era.html\">previous blogpost<\/a>, Gerard Bellaart sent a superimposition of several lines on Beckett&#8217;s short dramatic monologue <a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.emory.edu\/DRAMA\/beckettnoti.html\">&#8220;Not I.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6331\" style=\"width: 471px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/writers-at-work-13not-I.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6331\" data-attachment-id=\"6331\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2013\/05\/an-absurd-debate-about-the-last-word.html\/writers-at-work-13not-i\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/writers-at-work-13not-I.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"461,640\" 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;}\" data-image-title=\"writers at work (13)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8216;Writers at Work&amp;#8217; [From Gerard Bellaart&amp;#8217;s &amp;#8216;Superimpositions&amp;#8217; series] &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/writers-at-work-13not-I-216x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/writers-at-work-13not-I.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/writers-at-work-13not-I.jpg\" alt title=\"&#039;Writers at Work&#039; [From Gerard Bellaart&#039;s &#039;Superimpositions&#039; series]\" width=\"461\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/writers-at-work-13not-I.jpg 461w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/writers-at-work-13not-I-216x300.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6331\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><br \/>From Gerard Bellaart&#8217;s &#8216;Writers at Work&#8217; series of superimpositions.<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bellaart also sent an excerpt from Michael Maier&#8217;s paper, &#8220;GEISTERTRIO: Beethoven&#8217;s Music in Samuel Beckett&#8217;s &#8216;Ghost Trio.'&#8221;<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_6333\" style=\"width: 471px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/from-Michael-Maiers-GEISTERTRIO-Beethovens-Music-in-Samuel-Becketts-GHOST-TRIO.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6333\" data-attachment-id=\"6333\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2013\/05\/an-absurd-debate-about-the-last-word.html\/from-michael-maiers-geistertrio-beethovens-music-in-samuel-becketts-ghost-trio\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/from-Michael-Maiers-GEISTERTRIO-Beethovens-Music-in-Samuel-Becketts-GHOST-TRIO.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"461,213\" 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;}\" data-image-title=\"from Michael Maier&amp;#8217;s &amp;#8216;GEISTERTRIO-Beethoven&amp;#8217;s Music in Samuel Beckett&amp;#8217;s GHOST TRIO\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;From Michael Maier&amp;#8217;s &amp;#8216;GEISTERTRIO: Beethoven&amp;#8217;s Music in Beckett&amp;#8217;s &amp;#8216;Ghost Trio&amp;#8217;&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/from-Michael-Maiers-GEISTERTRIO-Beethovens-Music-in-Samuel-Becketts-GHOST-TRIO-300x138.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/from-Michael-Maiers-GEISTERTRIO-Beethovens-Music-in-Samuel-Becketts-GHOST-TRIO.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/from-Michael-Maiers-GEISTERTRIO-Beethovens-Music-in-Samuel-Becketts-GHOST-TRIO.jpg\" alt title=\"From Michael Maier&#039;s &#039;GEISTERTRIO: Beethoven&#039;s Music in Beckett&#039;s &#039;Ghost Trio&#039;\" width=\"461\" height=\"213\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/from-Michael-Maiers-GEISTERTRIO-Beethovens-Music-in-Samuel-Becketts-GHOST-TRIO.jpg 461w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/from-Michael-Maiers-GEISTERTRIO-Beethovens-Music-in-Samuel-Becketts-GHOST-TRIO-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6333\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><br \/>From Michael Maier&#8217;s &#8216;GEISTERTRIO: Beethoven&#8217;s Music in Beckett&#8217;s &#8216;Ghost Trio.&#8217;<\/a><\/p><\/div> To which, Bellaart says: &#8220;The debate as to whether music has the last word is rather like looking for reasons to believe in the absurd.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on the previous blogpost, Gerard Bellaart sent a superimposition of several lines on Beckett&#8217;s short dramatic monologue &#8220;Not I.&#8221; Bellaart also sent an excerpt from Michael Maier&#8217;s paper, &#8220;GEISTERTRIO: Beethoven&#8217;s Music in Samuel Beckett&#8217;s &#8216;Ghost Trio.&#8217;&#8221; To which, Bellaart says: &#8220;The debate as to whether music has the last word is rather like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-art","7":"category-literature","8":"entry","9":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-1Ea","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}