[Ads-l] Request access to The Letters of Samuel Beckett Volume 1 (was Palindrome Origin: Was It Eliot's Toilet I Saw?)

[Rich Lowenthal]

The letter is from 9 January 1937, sent by Beckett in Berlin to Thomas 
McGreevy in London. It is page 421 of the collection.


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Subject Request access to The Letters of Samuel Beckett Volume 1 (was 
Palindrome Origin: Was It Eliot's Toilet I Saw?)

>Rich Lowenthal  wrote:
>>  Samuel Beckett pointed out that "T Eliot is toilet spelt backwards" in a
>>  1937 letter.
>
>Fascinating information, Rich. Thanks!
>
>The journal MLN contains a review of the 2009 book "The Letters of
>Samuel Beckett: Volume 1 1929-1940" which suggests that the key
>sentence occurred in a letter printed on page 421 of the collection.
>
>[Begin excerpt from MLN]
>So what can the letters reveal under these circumstances? Well, as the
>comments on Joyce indicate, Beckett spent a fair amount of time
>protesting against his most important influences ("T. Eliot is toilet
>spelt backwards" [421]), although he could not effectively move away
>from them--not only their formal inventions, but also the avant-garde
>ethos that they embodied.
>[End excerpt from MLN]
>
>Unfortunately, it appears that the Internet Archive does not contain
>"The Letters of Samuel Beckett". Also, the pertinent volumes in Google
>Books are all in "No Preview" mode.
>
>Does some list member have access to "The Letters of Samuel Beckett:
>Volume 1 1929-1940"?
>
>Garson
>
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