The second major subject of Dream of
Fair to Middling Women draws on Beckett's life at TCD after his return from Paris in 1930 and before his resignation from TCD after Michaelmas term and his departure from Dublin on December 31, 1931.
The World of Samuel Beckett: 1906-1946
In many instances the comic twistings involve a display of learning, as in Dream of Fair to Middling Women where Beckett refers to "John of the Crossroads" instead of "St.
Thus the title Dream of Fair to Middling Women is based on the title of Tennyson's poem "A Dream of Fair Women," together with an echo of Chaucer's "The Legende of Good Women." Many of the revised aphorisms in Beckett's works of the 1930s, like the following examples, are based on literary allusions:
Samuel Beckett's revised aphorisms
There are many benefits from this course of action: there's no need to worry about the euro, there's a
fair to middling chance you won't be stymied by the language barrier, there are no luggage restrictions and, as yet, they aren't expecting passengers to pass through a full body scanner before they buy their day-to-go tickets.
Sleepy backwater or a bustling European city? OPINION
"There's obviously some sort of tension between doing it quickly and doing it well, but at the same time there are people who would like to just do it - and have it done
fair to middling - and stimulate the economy and not torture ourselves about doing it slowly and carefully," he said.
Energetic for funds
Herself said her prawns were
fair to middling but it was a decent-sized starter and set us up nicely for the next course.
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John Sykes and Peter Wells add that when Yorkshire folk are asked how they are, they often say "
fair to middling".
KILCOMMONS COLUMN
Fitfully amusing prequel stands to post
fair to middling summer box office numbers, if only because previous pic--which also inspired a mid-'90s TV cartoon show--remains a familiar brand thanks to constant homevid and cable exposure.
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Beckett's one person too few was the first-person 'I' conventionally considered constitutive of subjectivity; it was a creative struggle that began with the 'we (consensus, here and hereafter, of me)' of Dream of
Fair to Middling Women, which passed through a succession of 'vice-existers' culminating in the vertigo of The Unnamable, and was further transformed by the 'personless' or 'last person' prose of the late 1970s and early 1980s, with a different but comparable trajectory followed in the plays from Krapp's Last Tape through Not I to Ohio Impromptu.
Saying I No More: Subjectivity and Consciousness in the Prose of Samuel Beckett
It is time to get to grips with these things, which he inherited in dire straits, so for even a
fair to middling Executive, the proof of improvement should be easy.
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* "Global Outlook:
Fair to Middling" (Related article in this issue.
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Next up, our starters again were
fair to middling - or even fair to Middlesbrough, as the Chronicle's very own John Gibson likes to say.
It ain't that hot, Bob
The performances from this cast of bright young things are about as good as you'd expect -
fair to middling at best, definitely no Oscars.
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Fair to middling, that's the politest way I can put it.
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They rarely smile, and when you ask them how they feel they reply, ominously, "
fair to middling".
A look at Barry