Let's have a heated debate about At Swim-Two-Birds

except, y'know, with the initials in the right order

ATSB was one of the tom clancy game reboots iirc rip fallen eagle ;_;

I'm as well to say that I'm profoundly disappointed in ilxs lack of clamour for this most perfect of works. I've decided that.

Then perhaps you've not noticed the bagging and shine at the knees of my trousers from kneeling to genuflect at its altar, now have you? I should say not.

A pint or suggest ban is your only man, darrahmac.

To say its not enough is a criticism of your limited numbers being in and of yourself only yourself, man.

xp

I think fob would have been strongly for the sb and furthermore as myles would have written a scorcher setpiece about modding if his sketches on courtrooms are anything to go by

I am put in mind to say, was not Finn MacCool a man of breadth, of height, of reach, of parts, of skill with the bow, the staff and fist, quick to fury, gentle as a lamb with the softer sex, determined as a limpet and alert as a fine hound, in short a man worth a multitude? Would you also account him too few in number, being but one, is the question I would be asking you and think it worth your while to answer.

A fine man to ask it,indeed! But is it not the case, and well acknowledged, that under the modern system (and I need not remind you under which lot THAT was brought in!) the vote of such a man, or any man, can be set aside by the single perpendicular vote of any common guttersnipe, marauder, barroom solicitor, thief, local councillor or essayist?

I mean to say, whether a yarn is tall or small I like to hear it well told. I like to meet a man that can take in hand to tell a story and not make a balls of it while he's at it. I like to know where I am, do you know. Everything has a beginning and an end.

(ie I love this book too)

I've put enough of these posts in my mouth for a fortnight's chewing

Do you tell me that? It is very baffling to hear it, and will certainly have dire implications if it ever gets as far as the fourcourts.

I mean to say, whether a yarn is tall or small I like to hear it well told. I like to meet a man that can take in hand to tell a story and not make a balls of it while he's at it. I like to know where I am, do you know. Everything has a beginning and an end.

― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Friday, 8 January 2016 03:17 (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Good post

This is the best book

I mean the scene where the good fairy calls to the pooka and he still abed

There is no scene to match it

Relate us further, for the love of God.

Don't be doing this to me now boys, I've just come to bed and I'll be buggered if I'm getting up again to hunt down the book.

Of the noodles you have ever got, which have you found the vaguest?

There is finer stuff in that suit than was ever in any angels eye is the stone coldest drawing of a metaphorical blade that ever was conceived. Olivier buck naked locked out of Scott's tent would fall miles short of the frigidity of tone demanded

Nature of thread: civil, perfunctory, uninformative

The conclusion of your syllogism is fallacious, being based upon licensed premises.

I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.

So about the collected letters.

Apparently a right miserable so-and-so, Brian O'Nolan.

Recommended read?

reviewed poorly by a cunt with an axe to grind in the sunday times a few weeks back but that doesnt negate the review neither

Also reviewed poorly in the Lit Review, basically saying it starts well, but there's too much repetitious bulk from the later, bitter, less talented years.

Ugh.

Which of us could not be thus reviewed?

I am going to review them.