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

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.