Gabe writes:
> I only know that Alfred Jarry pointed his revolver at pedestrians in the
> street. I don't think he ever fired it at anyone. But considering how much
> Jarry drank (upwards of 4 liters of wine a day and a good few absinthes),
it
> wouldn't surprise me if he'd shot twenty babies in bright sunligh
I finally did the obvious, and sought whereof google could tell. There's
are lots of hits for <"flann o'brien" jarry bicycle>, one at least of which
says that if O'Brien hadn't known of Jarry, he ought to have done. But
Jarry's revolver (from an illuminating piece on Jarry and the bicycle:
http://www.bikereader.com/BikeReader/contributors/mcgurn/jarry.html
<Jarry soon became notorious. He took, for example, to riding around Paris
with two revolvers tucked in his belt and a carbine across his shoulder.
Some say that Jarry fired off a revolver to warn people of his approach. But
it is known for certain that at one point he fixed a large bell from a
tramcar onto his bicycle. All the same, Jarry was an athletic, no-nonsense
cyclist and enjoyed tearing around the countryside. He criticised those who
"thinking themselves poets, slow down en route to contemplate the view".>
Robin
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