Stout Hearted Man

Samuel Beckett on the type of encouragement offered by his family, and why he might not have "bother[ed] his arse to move" to Paris even if he had the money:

"Here at home they encourage my endeavours to build myself up on stout, and I feel that for stout my world is better lost than for Lib., Egal., and Frat., and quarts de Vittal. They don't say anyhting about my getting a job and I begin to be impervious to their inquietude."

from a letter to Thomas McGreevy, May 13, 1933.