When Winnie uses the words 'beechen green' in Happy Days she is quoting Keats’s Ode to a Nightingale.
But thanks to the publication of Samuel Beckett's Letters we now know that three decades before he was sharing his close interest in Keats with his great friend Thomas McGreevy,
'I like that crouching brooding quality in Keats—squatting on the moss, crushing a petal, licking his lips & rubbing his hands.'
The attraction, he said, lay in the 'thick soft damp green richness' of the poems.
Skeptical Science New Research for Week #17 2024
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*Open access notables*
*Ice acceleration and rotation in the Greenland Ice Sheet interior in
recent decades*, Løkkegaard et al., *Communications Earth & E...
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