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Guinness Lager, strong coffee, deconstructionist fiction and Irish accents abounded this weekend in the Adams House Lower Common Room, as Richard Eoin Nash '92-'93 attempted a 24-hour long reading of Flann O'Brien's 1939 novel AT SWIM TWO BIRDS...
...Swim-Two-Birds is reputedly the last book Irish author James Joyce read before going blind...
...ceiling and furniture, where she presumed the bugs were concealed. We stood there for a while leaning on the railing ((of the balcony)). I told R.M., "Look at this cliff with a watchtower on top. Tesseli is right behind it. I vacationed several times in Tesseli and used to swim here from that cliff. I sunbathed here, and then swam back...
...looked startled when I said, "Do you know I am a good swimmer? I guess I can easily swim three or even six miles. What if I take a risk?" Saying this, I smiled, but she seriously thought that it was a plan. She told me that earlier, at 3 a.m., they had made a videotape of the President's statement. They had used Anatoli's camera. She told me they were going to unreel the tape from the cassette and cut it into several pieces ((to make it easier to hide)). She said, "So I will wrap the tape...
Fish gotta swim. Locusts devour the countryside. Lawyers sue. For all the American plague of overlitigation, lawyers also act as a kind of priesthood in the rituals of American faith. Most religions preach a philosophical endurance of the imperfections of the world. Suffering must be borne. Americans did not come to the New World to live like that. They operate on a pushy, querulous assumption of perfectibility on earth ("the pursuit of happiness" -- their own personal happiness). That expectation, which can make Americans charming and unreasonable and shallow, is part of their formula for success. But it has led Americans...