murphy's heart

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Murphy's purpose in going to sit at Neary's feet was not to develop the Neary

heart, which he thought would quickly prove fatal to a man of his temper, but

simply to invest his own with a little of what Neary, at the time a Pythagorean,

called the Apmonia. For Murphy had such an irrational heart that no physician

could get to the root of it. Inspected, palpated, ausculated, percussed,

radiographed, and cardiographed, it was all that a heart should be. Buttoned up

and left to perform, it was like Petrouchka in his box. One moment in such

labour that it seemed on the point of seizing, the next in such ebullition that

it seemed on the point of bursting. It was the mediation between these extremes

that Neary called the Apmonia. When he got tired of calling it the Apmonia, he

called it the Isonomy. When he got sick of the sound of Isonomy he called the

the Attunement. But he might call it what he liked, into Murphy's heart it would

not enter. Neary could not blend the opposites in

Murphy's heart.

--Murphy, Chapter 1

 

 

 

Samuel Beckett

 

 

 

 

 

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