RE: What does your username mean?
February 7, 2022 at 1:28 am
(This post was last modified: February 7, 2022 at 1:40 am by Belacqua.)
(February 6, 2022 at 5:58 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: There have been threads like this before, but I thought we're due for another.
What does your username mean?
From Wikipedia:
Quote:Belacqua is a minor character in Dante Alighieri's Purgatorio, Canto IV. He is considered the epitome of indolence and laziness [...] The relevance of Belacqua is also driven by Samuel Beckett's strong interest in this character.
Dante uses him as an example of someone who refuses to commit to one belief or another until it's almost too late. Since I often seem to be the only one on the Internet who hasn't already decided what The Truth is, I use the name as self-mockery.
In Beckett's early fiction, Belacqua Shuah is a "student, a philanderer, and a failure."