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I simply know next to nothing about my work in this way, as little as a plumber of the history of hydraulics. There is nothing/nobody with me when I'm writing, only the hellish job in hand. The 'eye of the mind' in Happy Days does not refer to Yeats any more than the 'revels' in Endgame (refer) to The Tempest. They are just bits of pipe I happen to have with me. Samuel Beckett
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The music is Le Cygne (The Swan) by Camille Saint-Saëns, (1835-1921), from the Carnaval des animaux.