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I write about the intoxicating power of laughter, the genius of Michael McIntyre, and Flann O'Brien.
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It is widely considered to be O’Brien’s masterpiece, and one of the most sophisticated examples of metafiction. 2/2
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This read was lots of fun! So glad we got to read it together!!
Was Hamlet mad? Was Trellis mad? It is extremely hard to say.
Was he a victim of hard-to-explain hallucinations? Nobody knows. Even experts do not agree on these vital points.
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There’s nothing to be ashamed of in a false start. We can but try. Eh, boys? We can but try.
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I may understand you, Mr. Lamont may understand you, Mr. Furriskey may understand you—but the man in the street? Oh, by God you have to go very very slow if you want him to follow you.
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Conclusion of the book, ultimate: Evil is even, truth is an odd number and death is a full stop.
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Pluperfect is all right, of course, said Shanahan, anybody that takes exception to that was never very much at the beedouble-o-kay-ess.
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His temples were finely perfumed.
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Small house-flies performed brightly in the embrasures of the windows, whirling without fear on imaginary trapezes in the lime-light of the sun-slants.
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Tuesday had come down through Dundrum and Foster Avenue, brine-fresh from sea-travel, a corn-yellow sundrench that called forth the bees at an incustomary hour to their day of bumbling.
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By a curious coincidence as a matter of fact strange to say it happened that these same pages were those of the master's novel, the pages which made and sustained the existence of Furriskey and his true friends. Now they were blazing….
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Synopsis, being a summary of what has gone before, for the benefit of new readers: O T , having concluded his course of study at the residence of the Pooka MacPhellimey, now takes his place in civil life, living as a lodger in the house of F
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That will do you now, there is no need for temper, said my uncle. No need at all for temper. Friendly advice no wise man scorns, I’m sure you have often heard that said.
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Sloth—Lord save us—sloth is a terrible cross to carry in this world. You are a burden to yourself . . . to your friends . . . and to every man woman and child you meet and mix with. One of the worst of the deadly sins, there is no doubt about it.
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There’s another gentleman that I advise ye all to avoid, counselled Shanahan, cross the road if you see him coming. Our old friend pee-eye-ell-ee-ess.
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He lived for twenty years and he spent the twenty years on the flat of his back in bed. He was paralysed from the knee up. That’s a quare one. He was better dead, said Furriskey, stern in the certainty of his statement.
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Wherever you go on the face of the civilized globe you will hear of Homer, the glory that was Greece. Yes, indeed. I’m told there are some very nice verses in the Iliad of Homer, very good stuff, you know. You have never read it, Mr. Shanahan?
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That was all the fashion at one time, Furriskey said, we must make allowances, you know. You were nothing if you didn’t let the Christians have it. Onward Christian Soldiers, to your doom!
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But you've done the trick, you've passed your examination and your old uncle is going to be the first to shake your hand And happy he is indeed to do it.
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never once did he do his scales, never once did he practise. It happened that his fingers were in the pay of who-you-know.
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He has come to claim his own, said Mrs. Furriskey, nodding. He has come to claim his own, Mrs. Furriskey. Here there was a pause for the purpose of heart-searching and meditation.
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He wasn’t in our time, of course, said Lamont, but the tale was told that himself and the Devil had arrived at an understanding. What you call a working agreement.
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So I just found out that a friend of mine on instagram worked on this film adaptation of #AtSwimTwoBirds #OBrien24📚🐦
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