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The conversations with Joe are good, however the de Selby saga told exclusively via footnotes is better. For an alternate slash earlier take on de Selby, O'Brien's The Dalkey Archive is worth checking out. I maintain that The Dalkey Archive is bleaker and more messed up than the Third Policeman.
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Agree with the author that At Swim Two Birds is his worst work. The Poor Mouth is amazing, and constantly trades places with Third Policeman/Dalkey Archives as my favorite Flann O'Brien novel. Third Policeman theory of molecule transfer is legit. For the May BotM, going to re-nominate the A Prince of Swindlers by Guy Boothby. quantumfoam fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Apr 8, 2021 |
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If you wanted to discuss At Swim Two Birds, you should have nominated it/voted for it back in March 2021.
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Be prepared for plenty of bicycle metaphysics @poisonpill
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Starting off with 3rd party Introduction chapters in fiction is cheat-mode. Dive into a fiction book blind, then once you're done, read the Introduction chapter to see what you caught on-your-own vs what the 3rd party Introduction chapter says to look for. Back on BotM topic: If the molecule transfer theory from Third Policeman is correct, we are all cyborgs in the Norbert Wiener usage of the terms cyborgs/cybernetics. Aka my hands are at least 36% iPhone and rising. This is interesting because O'Brien's joke theory in a novel that failed to get originally published in 1940 predates a core piece of Norbert Wiener's Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, which was published @1948. [irony] Did Norbert Wiener rip off Brian O'Nolan aka Flann O'Brien? [/irony]
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