FOB seems to specialise in these extended bravura sequences where all literature else is cast into a pyre. in 3P it was the underground chamber and i'll be beggared if the cress-green cress of the full seventh of that book's length that is the confusion of the tellings of finn, shanahan and lamont doesn't figure somewhere in the reckoning of which is ASTB's. unless somehow it has greater in store
― imago, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 14:45 (four years ago) link
I don't exactly understand that comment. Can you explain further?
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 09:52 (four years ago) link
I recommend THE COLLECTED LETTERS OF FLANN O'BRIEN, though not as a way of preserving any mystique.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 09:53 (four years ago) link
Myles na gCopaleen’s collected columns are the best, but I read The Third Policeman a while back and it was honestly one of the strangest things I’ve ever read. I need to read it again.
― gyac, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 10:16 (four years ago) link
By that I meant that pages 58 through 91 of ASTB make for a truly astonishing passage. I was speculating as to whether the book will have greater in store for me during the remaining course of its pages, of which I have now read 104.
― imago, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 10:24 (four years ago) link
Are you deliberately taking years to read this novel?
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 10:28 (four years ago) link
Savouring every syllable.
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 10:28 (four years ago) link
third policeman might be the most terrifying book i've ever read
― devvvine, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 10:32 (four years ago) link
obvs a masterpiece, as is astb
― devvvine, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 10:33 (four years ago) link
Page 104 has heralded the beginning of a section concerning a Pooka and a Good Fairy that is threatening to drown all that precedes or follows it in mirthful frenzies
― imago, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 10:36 (four years ago) link
love the running articles towards the start of 'the best of myles' collection, which begin with him proposing a business where he roughs up rich peoples books, so that people think they've been read, and gets more absurd each week until dublin society is being terrroized by social blackmailers
― devvvine, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 10:42 (four years ago) link
Ordered this just now cuz of this thread (Penguin Classics ed.)
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 11:01 (four years ago) link
The Myles stuff is incredible! I started re-reading his stuff last week, he was my favourite author for a period
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 14:30 (four years ago) link
If you chance to read The Dalkey Archive you will see large parts of 3rd Policeman, slightly mutated and used slightly differently.
I love the novels but never quite got into the Myles material, especially the bits not written in English.
One time I was reading At Swim-Two-Birds on the subway and an old man next to me asked me what I was reading. I mutely showed him, and he said "ah, that's a foine book. I also recommend the Dalkey Archive."
I looked over at what he was reading. It was Hamlet.
Only later did I realize that I should have said "That's a good one too. I also recommend Romeo and Juliet." What's Irish for l'esprit de l'escalier?
― moist owlette (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 14:49 (four years ago) link
'a pint of plain is your only man' iirc
― imago, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link
Ha, exactly
― Theory of Every Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 15:01 (four years ago) link
wow lol
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 15:18 (four years ago) link
Can’t believe I didn’t mention An Béal Bocht - so so good and always accurate, esp in these Brexity times when we are really all Jams O’Donnell.
Obvs his greatest achievement was writing these masterpieces while employed in the civil service though.
― gyac, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 15:39 (four years ago) link
And mostly pissed iirc
― The Gapes of Wrath (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 17:10 (four years ago) link
The Brother is one of the greatest comic creations of all time.
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 17:20 (four years ago) link
I want to compile every proverb in this book and maybe poll them. A leg that is in halves is a slow pilgrim
― imago, Thursday, 18 April 2019 14:54 (four years ago) link
Orlick's bathroom break is probably the funniest two pages in print
― imago, Thursday, 18 April 2019 15:16 (four years ago) link
The brother was givin out about the seals. ‘Tumblers’ he called them. The brother says all them lads should be destroyed.
― JoeStork, Thursday, 18 April 2019 15:39 (four years ago) link
The Plain People of Ireland: Another day gone and no jokes. Myself: Yes, curse you.
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 00:17 (four years ago) link
The conclusion of your syllogism, I said lightly, is fallacious, being based upon licensed premises.
― fetter, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 15:34 (four years ago) link
ive zero requirement for this rather natty hodges-figgis special hardback of astb but for 6.50 it's hard to justify leaving it here in the sale rack
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Saturday, 1 February 2020 13:55 (four years ago) link
Which one? It’s not on their site.
― hyds (gyac), Saturday, 1 February 2020 13:56 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/51ykimp.jpg
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Saturday, 1 February 2020 14:02 (four years ago) link
and now you even know where im sitting
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Saturday, 1 February 2020 14:03 (four years ago) link
Oh it is on there - it’s £10. Gorgeous edition.
― hyds (gyac), Saturday, 1 February 2020 14:04 (four years ago) link
If you mean in H&F, I haven’t been there since Bertie was Taoiseach.
― hyds (gyac), Saturday, 1 February 2020 14:05 (four years ago) link
hopefully youll be back before hes president wha
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Saturday, 1 February 2020 14:07 (four years ago) link
I see they have a vintage tractors calendar 75% off - is that what you went in for?
― hyds (gyac), Saturday, 1 February 2020 14:07 (four years ago) link
saturdays is H/F ----> celtic whiskey store days on dawson st, if anything catches my eye in either so be it
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Saturday, 1 February 2020 14:09 (four years ago) link
I've my two copies of ATSB already and that's enough to keep a man well-supplied and ready at the drop of a hat.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 1 February 2020 17:35 (four years ago) link
Both obtained upon licensed premises no doubt
― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Marat/Sade (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 1 February 2020 17:39 (four years ago) link
Oddly I only have one.
I believe that hardback is the 2019 80th anniversary edition.
I didn't think that Darraghmac lived in Dublin.
― the pinefox, Sunday, 2 February 2020 20:05 (four years ago) link
Next to Joyce and Paul Bowles I'm pretty sure this is the author of whose work I've read the most completely.
― Montegays and Capulez (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, 2 February 2020 23:31 (four years ago) link
― the pinefox, Sunday, 2 February 2020 20:05 (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Next to Joyce and Paul Bowles
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Sunday, 2 February 2020 23:40 (four years ago) link
god the stink must be bad by now
― GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 2 February 2020 23:51 (four years ago) link
well joyce is in bronze tbf
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Sunday, 2 February 2020 23:56 (four years ago) link
If you only have one copy and you reread it frequently, there is a serious risk of you becoming quantumly entangled with the book, due to mollycules. You will find yourself increasingly wishing to rest on shelves. Or check yourself back into libraries. Beware.
― Okay, you're an ambulance (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 3 February 2020 01:40 (four years ago) link
Ports plan for Brexit Irish Sea checks
"We are still in this territory of not getting clarity from the government just yet as to how they actually see trade agreements being, because if we get good trade agreements, we won't need to have certain checks."
Never forget that tenure by sochemaunce seisined by feodo copyholds in gross and reseisined through covenants of foeffseignory in frankalpuissaunce is alienable only by droit of bonfeasaunce subsisting in free-bench coigny or in re-vested copywrites of seisina facit stipidem, a fair copy bearing a 2d. stamp to be entered at the Court of Star Chamber.
Furthermore, a rent seck indentured with such frankalseignory or chartamoign charges as may be, and re-empted in Market Overt, subsists thereafter in graund serjaunty du roi, eighteen fishing smacks being deemed sufficient to transport the stuff from Lisbon.
― alimosina, Monday, 3 February 2020 15:42 (four years ago) link
too real
i eat my lunch under a sketch by the great man's brother
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Monday, 3 February 2020 16:01 (four years ago) link
One dilly dallying civil servant recognised another
― hyds (gyac), Monday, 3 February 2020 16:02 (four years ago) link
voting 'coigny'
― TOO LOW, the Curator (imago), Monday, 3 February 2020 16:03 (four years ago) link
I have just the one copy, but it's had Premier Handling*.
*Each volume to be thoroughly handled, eight leaves in each to be dog-eared, a suitable passage in not less than 25 volumes to be underlined in red pencil, and a leaflet in French on the works of Victor Hugo to be inserted as a forgotten book-mark in each. Say, £2 17s 6d. Five per cent discount for literary university students, civil servants and lady social workers
― fetter, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 12:44 (four years ago) link
http://www.eerpublishing.com/gallacher-bohemian-belfast-and-dublin.html
Obscure stuff, from an obscure press, but this book could be quite interesting on the postwar Flann and his Dublin.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 16 September 2021 13:53 (two years ago) link
just finished 'the hard life' - brisk and well-observed but patently weighted with what must have been the writer's own mounting woes, very little allowed to transcend except the irrepressible brother
― imago, Thursday, 23 June 2022 12:49 (one year ago) link
One of the oddest things about that book is how much is taken up with the brother (Manus?) 's letters. They fill page after page. I don't think FO'B entirely knew what he was doing in that regard.
Kind of interesting about Mr Collopy's campaign and his audience with the Pope, though.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 23 June 2022 13:16 (one year ago) link