To Be Hurt [Beckett]

From 'The Painful Comedy of Samuel Beckett', John Banville, NYRB vol 43 no 18, 14 Nov 1996.

In return for some work Beckett did on the proofs of Finnegans Wake, Joyce paid him a miserly couple of hundred francs and "supplemented it," Beckett reported, "with an old overcoat and 5 ties! I did not refuse. It is so much simpler to be hurt than to hurt."