(Usual apologies for cross-posting to The Other List):
Two Flann O'Brien questions:
1. (specific) --
Is there any documented link between the bicycle in _The Third Policeman_
and Alfred Jarry?
Context: End[self/quote]If:
"
[Aside: is there an Alfred Jarry allusion there somewhere? Doesn't the
Sūrmale ride a bicycle at some point? (Yet another book I've "misplaced".)
Didn't Jarry ride around the streets of Paris on a bicycle firing a revolver
at every passing grandmother wheeling a pram?]
"
{
REM:
(Oops, my MSX is showing ... )
< Look, c'mon. it's REALLY late at night -- allow me at least a blurred and
coded allusion to C programming.
:-)
Could'a been a contender.
:-( >
}
2. (general) --
Who is The True Son of Joyce?
O'Brien and Sam Beckett were both pretty much of an age, but neither (so I'm
informed, and it matches my own limited reading) mentions the other.
Did they ever, or is this a case of The Risen Christ smiling benignly on
both James and Saul?
Robin.
['Lor, strikes me that the ONLY thing I took away from C-coding was, "Please
adjust your parentheses before leaving Spaghetti Junction".
Da Quiche Eater.]
$$$
PhoopPloop -- Gotta get/n identity. *** Anyone got one to spare, other
than one picked up abandoned on a James Fenton skip?
Darth Vader.
$$$
***
& -- / stands for a glottal stop -- still can't crack how to do decent IPA
in plain text.
Anyone hel here?
David Jaonz
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