tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post111887737792127390..comments2023-12-08T00:54:27.168+11:00Comments on Sorrow at Sills Bend: Elasticated Bloomerslucy tartanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09244574932248425378noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1119187918276684432005-06-19T23:31:00.000+10:002005-06-19T23:31:00.000+10:00I forgot about Bloomsday, which is probably just a...I forgot about Bloomsday, which is probably just as well or I'd've been annoyed by various sad bastards pretending to be Irish or poets (or - brrr! - both) getting pissed over the burnt-kidney-and-Guinness breakfast at Outdoor Jake's Bloomsbury Beerbarn and middleaged Mollies flashing their bloomers after onetoomany brightgreen Bacardi Breezers.<BR/><BR/>I did just read <I>The Dalkey Archive</I>,Ben.Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11879705585399028153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1119178546341559552005-06-19T20:55:00.000+10:002005-06-19T20:55:00.000+10:00Can't argue with that. He sounds a bit like Harry....Can't argue with that. He sounds a bit like Harry...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1119098499993933462005-06-18T22:41:00.000+10:002005-06-18T22:41:00.000+10:00Because he's c00000l d000000d! a) wrote extremely ...Because he's c00000l d000000d! <BR/><BR/>a) wrote extremely well<BR/>b) was madder than a cut snake<BR/>c) wrote extremely badly<BR/>d) tried really hard<BR/>e) never quite made the team<BR/>f) had his finger smack bang on the pulse<BR/>g) had no inkling at all of (f)<BR/>h) IRL, a very good person.lucy tartanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244574932248425378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1119064814858355672005-06-18T13:20:00.000+10:002005-06-18T13:20:00.000+10:00Bram Stoker? Curious choice. Why?Bram Stoker? Curious choice. Why?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1119053621547021092005-06-18T10:13:00.000+10:002005-06-18T10:13:00.000+10:00Thank you Miss Laura. When you said "I am legally ...Thank you Miss Laura. <BR/><BR/>When you said "I am legally Irish" I read it as "I am legally rich" That's funny.<BR/><BR/>I didn't set out to offend Fydor, I was never aiming at him at all.R.H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04639593801088008224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1118995884594475702005-06-17T18:11:00.000+10:002005-06-17T18:11:00.000+10:00BTW, I am legally Irish, and Bram Stoker & Maria E...BTW, I am legally Irish, and Bram Stoker & Maria Edgeworth are my favourite Irish writers, next to Heaney.lucy tartanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244574932248425378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1118995734415682412005-06-17T18:08:00.000+10:002005-06-17T18:08:00.000+10:00Isn't it a beautiful thing to watch two visitors m...Isn't it a beautiful thing to watch two visitors making friends with each other? Gladdens my heart, really it does. <BR/><BR/>RH, I don't really believe in the existence of clubs like what i take you to be meaning. The book is there, it is cheap to buy, anyone who wants to can read it. Or not. That's all. No biggie. Ulysses would never be taught at my university, and the students there arelucy tartanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244574932248425378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1118991172948267642005-06-17T16:52:00.000+10:002005-06-17T16:52:00.000+10:00A gentleman never tells.But if you're agog, stay t...A gentleman never tells.<BR/><BR/>But if you're agog, stay that way. No one ever got locked up for being agog.R.H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04639593801088008224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1118989024833117572005-06-17T16:17:00.000+10:002005-06-17T16:17:00.000+10:00Your hunchback discovery, that is. Your appeal to ...Your hunchback discovery, that is. Your appeal to the gentler sex is so obvious it requires no elucidation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1118988861718867252005-06-17T16:14:00.000+10:002005-06-17T16:14:00.000+10:00Are they really? Do tell. I'm all agog at your dis...Are they really? Do tell. I'm all agog at your discovery.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1118988344577961802005-06-17T16:05:00.000+10:002005-06-17T16:05:00.000+10:00I'm about as literate as a pimp during a police ra...I'm about as literate as a pimp during a police raid. But strangely, I have my fans: women, on another blog, who are in love with me. I look like George Hamilton, that's what they're saying now. <BR/>Well there's no end to a woman's imagination. So determined! So romantic.R.H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04639593801088008224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1118985991927376112005-06-17T15:26:00.000+10:002005-06-17T15:26:00.000+10:00Quite so. Smart chap. Blogs are full of hunchbacks...Quite so. Smart chap. Blogs are full of hunchbacks.<BR/><BR/>Bellringers.R.H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04639593801088008224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1118985503692096102005-06-17T15:18:00.000+10:002005-06-17T15:18:00.000+10:00* retains correct posture *Fuckety fuckety fuck. I...* retains correct posture *<BR/><BR/>Fuckety fuckety fuck. I'm gonna fuck you with my fucker you fuck. <BR/><BR/>* checks posture * <BR/><BR/>Nope. There goes that theory.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1118984784176123272005-06-17T15:06:00.000+10:002005-06-17T15:06:00.000+10:00You can swear, so can I. My first word in the crad...You can swear, so can I. My first word in the cradle was fuck. We heard it every day of our lives, us lower-class babies. But some of us grew up; we found other ways to complain. Meanwhile, the better classes are very impressed. They consider fuck a smart word. But they have to stoop to say it.R.H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04639593801088008224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1118983288997612232005-06-17T14:41:00.000+10:002005-06-17T14:41:00.000+10:00James Joyce ran a cinema and went broke. No wonder...James Joyce ran a cinema and went broke. No wonder. He probably put on Last Year at Marienbad.<BR/><BR/>Welcome to the James Joyce Club, very exclusive: hocus pocus and twaddle. Nonsense. But a nice alternative to Buddhism. -If you want to be different, that is.<BR/><BR/>Is Ulysses a fraud, a hoax? Who says it's good? -Professors and their adoring students, that's who. Plus finance experts R.H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04639593801088008224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1118972854586505972005-06-17T11:47:00.000+10:002005-06-17T11:47:00.000+10:00Jeez, you're good, Laura, very good indeed. Yeah, ...Jeez, you're good, Laura, very good indeed. <BR/><BR/>Yeah, that's right: without Joyce, Ireland would have no literature whatsoever.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1118972740709701332005-06-17T11:45:00.000+10:002005-06-17T11:45:00.000+10:00I fecked up the link to Amardeep's essay. If keen...I fecked up the link to Amardeep's essay. If keen, it can be reached via the Valve in the sidebar links.lucy tartanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244574932248425378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1118972358101303372005-06-17T11:39:00.000+10:002005-06-17T11:39:00.000+10:00you forgot "arse!" (although I better not say tha...you forgot "arse!" (although I better not say that, because RH might not like it. ooh, I'm scared.)<BR/><BR/>Without Joyce = no Father Ted, I don't think. Just U2 and Riverdance, bah.lucy tartanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244574932248425378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1118971382283282522005-06-17T11:23:00.000+10:002005-06-17T11:23:00.000+10:00Laura, I'm so fucking impressed I'm prepared to pa...Laura, <BR/><BR/>I'm so fucking impressed I'm prepared to pay for your cloning to ensure we never lose you. <BR/><BR/>Drink! Girls! Feck!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1118970030021467082005-06-17T11:00:00.000+10:002005-06-17T11:00:00.000+10:00Trashglam, it's still yesterday in the Northern He...Trashglam, it's still yesterday in the Northern Hemisphere, if you still feel like doing some partying. For eg, Amardeep Singh posted <A HREF="" REL="nofollow" HTTP://WWW.THEVALVE.ORG/GO/VALVE/ARTICLE/A_SHORT_ESSAY_ON_FAT_IN_ULYSSES/>an essay on fat in ulysses here</A> - it's a draft, so reading and commenting do actually have a useful purpose in this instance.<BR/><BR/>For what it's worth I lucy tartanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244574932248425378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1118963837752029342005-06-17T09:17:00.000+10:002005-06-17T09:17:00.000+10:00D'you see?!! Someone should make that into a song....D'you see?!! Someone should make that into a song. It's a Eurovision winner for sure. All we need now is some scantily clad Transdniestrian singer named Agafya and we are home & hosed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1118907916571335092005-06-16T17:45:00.000+10:002005-06-16T17:45:00.000+10:00My Lovely Horse,running through the fields - where...My Lovely Horse,<BR/>running through the fields - <BR/>where are you going<BR/>with your fetlocks blowing in the wind?<BR/><BR/>I want to shower you with sugar lumps,<BR/>And ride you over fences;<BR/>Polish your hooves every single day,<BR/>And bring you to the horse dentist.<BR/><BR/>My lovely horse, <BR/>you're a pony no more,<BR/>runnin' around, with a man on your back, like a train in the lucy tartanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244574932248425378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1118905643738384812005-06-16T17:07:00.000+10:002005-06-16T17:07:00.000+10:00OK, you got me there, Laura. Well, nearly: I enjoy...OK, you got me there, Laura. Well, nearly: I enjoyed parts of DVC, god help me. In contrast, Ulysses was a labour of pure unmitigated hatred. Onanistic verbiage. Give me Homer's version anyday.<BR/><BR/>And I'll have you know Father Ted is very feckin' lyrical.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1118903411153214982005-06-16T16:30:00.000+10:002005-06-16T16:30:00.000+10:00Constipated prose, that's what it is.And yes, the ...Constipated prose, that's what it is.<BR/>And yes, the Da Vinci Code, that too. I tried to read it, and was snoring my heart out by page four. There's nothing better for getting a good night's sleep.R.H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04639593801088008224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1118902368642277792005-06-16T16:12:00.000+10:002005-06-16T16:12:00.000+10:00Who said anything about lyrical? Only if you thin...Who said anything about lyrical? Only if you think Father Ted is lyrical. <BR/><BR/>I googled <A HREF="http://www.google.com.au/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2005-08,GGLD:en&q=%22most+overrated+novel+ever%22" REL="nofollow">"most overrated novel ever"</A>, and Jeff Somebody on Amazon sides with you, F, but I'm with whoever nominated the da vinci code, copies of which, I lucy tartanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244574932248425378noreply@blogger.com