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SUMMARY:Helix Center Event: Fail Again\, Fail Better
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DESCRIPTION:November 8th\, 2026 at 2:30PM - Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. - Samuel Beckett Why do NY Mets fans stay true to their team\, season after losing season? The answer may have to do with the kind of delirious joy they experience when that special year comes around and they finally win the World Series. But it may also have to do with the romance of failure. Sigmund Freud sounded a warning note against those who are “wrecked by success.”  The Little Red Engine thought it could and did\, but W.C. Fields was more pragmatic. “If at first you don't succeed\, try\, try again\,” he said\, adding\, “Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.” Should we keep going after failure?  Does it engender greater subsequent success?  Make us a “better person”?  What if failure is its own reward? Failure\, as a concept\, is a fundamental part of what used to be called the human experience. Beckett and William Gaddis\, among others\, show us a way of living with it: failing better\, failing intelligently\, working at something one finds worth failing at.
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