In spite of the assurance that it expressed nothing new in State Dept.
Everyday, I see people who express nothing but love for their dogs but then put a choke collar on them, or leave them home alone for twelve hours at a time or install electric fences.
In the "Three Dialogues" he wrote with Duthuit in 1949, he claimed to favor "the expression that there is nothing to express, nothing with which to express, nothing from which to express, no power to express, no desire to express, together with the obligation to express".
It signals, in fact, that an artist is getting to the core of what it means to be an artist – as in his often-quoted remarks about "the expression that there is nothing to express, nothing with which to express, nothing from which to express, no power to express, no desire to express, together with the obligation to express". Bram van Velde could have been made for Beckett.
They express nothing, which is her point.
"The musical ideal," he called them, "music spontaneous and 'useless,' music that wishes to express nothing".
They are concrete rather than abstract, and they express nothing about the mental state of their maker.
Pianists with consummately brilliant technique are all too often featureless people who express nothing but their own perfection.
This accounts, in my case, for the odd tension between writing and laziness which Samuel Beckett describes to a T: "There is nothing to express, nothing with which to express, nothing from which to express, no power to express, no desire to express, together with the obligation to express".
And now and then the books do illustrate Beckett's dictum that "there is nothing to express, nothing with which to express, nothing from which to express, no power to express, no desire to express, together with the obligation to express".
But while most network executives publicly express nothing but happiness with how things stand since that descent into chaos, unease remains under the surface.
