Fizzles*: What I'm Reading—Silent but Deadly

My copy looks like this:

Evergreen Edition, Grove Press, 1976

Turns out, there's another edition. Looks something like this:

WTF?

Nice box and frontispiece:

Illustrated, no less:

Only 250 copies ever made. Saw one auction price of $30,000.

What's more? Jasper Johns was from Augusta, Georgia. Live and learn.

And to top it all off? There's even a soundtrack! Who knew?!

I wouldn't say that's the music I hear in my head when I read Fizzles. But your mileage may vary.

All that for a book that's only like 40 pages long.

UPDATE—8/28/17: Turns out there's a play about the Beckett/Johns so-called collaboration as well. Whodathunkit?

FURTHER UPDATE—8/28/17: Some videos as well. Irish at that. And recent.

Company SJ: Beckett in the City - Fizzles By Samuel Beckett from Shoot To Kill on Vimeo.

COMPANY SJ presents SAMUEL BECKETT'S FIZZLES; BECKETT IN THE CITY from Shoot To Kill on Vimeo.

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*Apparently, 'Fizzles' is a rather bowdlerized translation of the French title, Foirades, a word which means, roughly, "farts", specifically "silent or hissing farts", but also "failures" or "fiascos". So, all this art about farts. LOL, as the kids like to say.

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For the record, Fizzles is not a description nor is it a judgment on what's been happening with this blog lately. Or, maybe it is. Your call.