On hearing Samuel Beckett refute his birth date my mother, who was pregnant with me, was thrown into a whirl.
‘He cannot’, she said to a gathering of friends who shared her view that he would praise their new club motto which, they had just decided, would be:
Seek disorder, Live for enigma. Beware of fools and false causes.
‘Why would he refute it? He says it is in April. We say it is ... (read more)