“Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.”
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer
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“Light in tone, the novel [Murphy] is Beckett’s response to the therapeutic orthodoxy that the patient should learn to engage with the larger world on the world’s terms.”
“The Making of Samuel Beckett,” New York Review of Books, vol. LVI, no. 7 (April 30, 2009), p. 14
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