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- Even at 2 years old, Beckett was a very verbal child, able to describe how he felt. And how he felt was "dizzy". He was also sick to his stomach from time to time, and had developed a head tilt.
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Even at 2 years old, Beckett was a very verbal child, able to describe how he felt. And how he felt was "dizzy". He was also sick to his stomach from time to time, and had developed a head tilt. Beckett was ultimately diagnosed with ATRT, an aggressive form of brain cancer.
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- Beckett Broke Literary Rules by Writing Books Without Characters and Plot.
- He Befriended James Joyce, But The Two Writers Had A Falling out.
- He Loved Playing and Watching Sports …
- … and His Writing Inspired A Tennis Star’S Tattoo.
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- He Drove André The Giant to School in A Big Truck.
- He Felt That He Had Never Been born.
- He Fell in Love with His Future Wife After Being Stabbed by A Pimp.
- He Fought Against The Nazis as Part of The French resistance.
- He Made A Weird Movie with Buster Keaton.
Considered one of the last Modernists, or sometimes the first Postmodernist, Beckett wrote novels and plays with minimal characters, plot, and scenery. Dubbed “Theatre of the Absurd,” Beckett’s plays—such as his most famous, Waiting For Godot—pessimistically portray the human condition as one that is hopeless and meaningless. The minimal characters...
In the late 1920s in Paris, Beckett worked as writer James Joyce’s assistant, helping him transcribe and do research for Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake. Beckett greatly admired Joyce, and in 1929, he published an essay defending Joyce’s work. Joyce’s daughter, Lucia, had a crush on Beckett, but he didn’t return her feelings, and the unrequited love r...
As a student at a boarding school in Northern Ireland, Beckett was a talented cricket player. When he was 20 years old, he even played a few games for the Dublin University Cricket Club. But his love of sports wasn’t limited to cricket. Beckett was also a lifelong tennis fanwho both played and watched tennis matches on TV.
Swiss tennis player Stanislas Wawrinka has beaten favorites Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic to win the 2014 Australian Open and 2015 French Open, respectively. To feel inspired on the court, Wawrinka looks down at the inside of his left forearm, which has a tattoo of Beckett’s words from his 1983 novella Worstward Ho: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No m...
With the rise of startup culture, business owners have looked for pithy quotes that offer quick advice and motivation. Beckett’s words from Worstward Ho—“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”—have ironically becomea popular motivational quote. Although Beckett was focused more on nihilism than self-help, entrepren...
In the 1950s, Beckett lived in a hamlet in France and befriended a neighbor, Boris Roussimoff. Because Roussimoff’s 12-year-old son, André, had gigantism, the boy couldn’t get to school—he didn’t fit on the school bus or in the car. Because Beckett had a pickup truck, the writer gave André rides to school. The two chatted about cricket, and André l...
After his dad died in 1933, Beckett experienced night terrors, stomach pain, and depression. He became a patient of Wilfred Bion, a British psychoanalyst, for two years. During this time, he attended a Carl Jung lecture where Jung discussed a girl who had never really been born, an idea with which Beckett identified. He reportedly told close friend...
In January 1938, a pimp on a Paris street stabbed Beckett, perforating his lung and seriously injuring him. A tennis acquaintance of Beckett’s, Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil, heard about the attack and visited Beckett regularly in the hospital during his two week stay. He and Suzanne, who was six years older, fell in love, lived together for many year...
In World War II, Beckett participated in the French Resistance to fight against the Nazi occupation of France. Translating documents and using his apartment as an information drop, Beckett risked arrest to fight the Nazis. After some of his friends in the French Resistance were arrested, he fled to the south of France in 1942, but he continued to h...
Beckett wrote his only screenplay in the early 1960s and cast a 70-year-old Buster Keaton in his movie, called Film. Released in 1965, Film portrays Keaton in a city, trying to hurry past others on a street, and in a room with various pets and a lone piece of artwork. Highly experimental, Film got mixed reviews, and Beckett described it as an inter...
May 15, 2024 · Beckett was 6 years old when he found out he had a brain tumor, and now, one year later, the McBride family is finally feeling a refreshed sense of hope. What began as suspected GI troubles became a journey that changed everything.
Oct 30, 2021 · Two years ago, Beckett Burge broke the internet’s heart. Now, he’s back to mend it. Beckett was just 4 years old when he was handed a devastating diagnosis: acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Treatment was hard on the little guy, but his sister Aubrey always had his back – literally.
Nov 22, 2023 · Beckett Fowler, 3, returned to his Shelby Township home in style. The little boy and his family were led by a police escort and welcomed by a host of supporters.
Oct 19, 2021 · After two years of birthdays, holidays and chemotherapy treatments, Beckett Burge was able to celebrate the biggest milestone of all -- being officially cancer-free. Beckett was only 4 years old when he was diagnosed with pre-B acute lymphoblastic leukemia on April 25, 2018. He began chemotherapy and was often sick following treatment.
