“‘Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better’. So wrote Samuel Beckett in his novella Worstward Ho. Yet should a present-day Beckett, elected a Scholar of Modern Languages in 1926, seek to apply his quote to Schols, he might be tempted to adapt his words: ‘Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Go home’ …” (more)
[Ryan Alberto Ó Giobúin, University Times, 25 January]