1. ewilcox: tragos: historicalmeetups: Samuel Beckett
Playwright, novelist, and Nobel laureate meets André the GiantGargantuan professional wrestling legend In 1953, fresh off the success of Waiting for Godot, Beckett bought a plot of land near the hamlet of Molien, in the commune of Ussy-sur-Marne, about forty miles northeast of Paris. There he built a cottage for himself with some help from a group of locals, including a Bulgarian-born farmer named Boris Rousimoff. Over the years, Beckett and Rousimoff became friends and would occasionally get together for card games. Rousimoff had a son, André, known as Dédé, who was something of a physical marvel. By the age of 12, André was over six feet tall and weighed 240 pounds. No school bus could hold him, and his family lacked the means to buy a car big enough to schlep him back and forth to school in Ussy-sur-Marne. Enter Boris’ old card-playing buddy Beckett, who owned a truck and was more than willing to pay his friend back for his help with the cottage by giving a lift to his enormous pituitary case of a son on his drives into town. Years later, when recounting his conversations with Beckett (which he did often), André the Giant revealed that they rarely talked about anything besides cricket. I owe this post entirely to the good man Ekstasis, who, in response to my earlier reblog of Samuel Beckett (the young cricket enthusiast), directed my attention to this remarkable Historical Meet-up. Please. Tumblr community. Please substantiate this claim. You have no idea how much it would mean to me to know that Beckett and Andre the Giant were friends. It would renew my faith in all that is fine and good on this planet. It would inspire me to cut down on excessive almond consumption. It might even force me to choreograph never-before-seen breakdancing moves. If this is true, it’s the best thing I’ve read in months. This is even better than Brutus the Barber Beefcake’s chance encounter with Richard Brautigan

    ewilcox:

    tragos:

    historicalmeetups:

    Samuel Beckett

    Playwright, novelist, and Nobel laureate

    meets

    André the Giant
    Gargantuan professional wrestling legend

    In 1953, fresh off the success of Waiting for Godot, Beckett bought a plot of land near the hamlet of Molien, in the commune of Ussy-sur-Marne, about forty miles northeast of Paris. There he built a cottage for himself with some help from a group of locals, including a Bulgarian-born farmer named Boris Rousimoff. Over the years, Beckett and Rousimoff became friends and would occasionally get together for card games. Rousimoff had a son, André, known as Dédé, who was something of a physical marvel. By the age of 12, André was over six feet tall and weighed 240 pounds. No school bus could hold him, and his family lacked the means to buy a car big enough to schlep him back and forth to school in Ussy-sur-Marne. Enter Boris’ old card-playing buddy Beckett, who owned a truck and was more than willing to pay his friend back for his help with the cottage by giving a lift to his enormous pituitary case of a son on his drives into town. Years later, when recounting his conversations with Beckett (which he did often), André the Giant revealed that they rarely talked about anything besides cricket.

    I owe this post entirely to the good man Ekstasis, who, in response to my earlier reblog of Samuel Beckett (the young cricket enthusiast), directed my attention to this remarkable Historical Meet-up.

    Please. Tumblr community. Please substantiate this claim. You have no idea how much it would mean to me to know that Beckett and Andre the Giant were friends. It would renew my faith in all that is fine and good on this planet. It would inspire me to cut down on excessive almond consumption. It might even force me to choreograph never-before-seen breakdancing moves.

    If this is true, it’s the best thing I’ve read in months.

    This is even better than Brutus the Barber Beefcake’s chance encounter with Richard Brautigan

    (via ecantwell)

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