From: "Árni Ibsen" <[log in to unmask]>
Now I can't find my Cape copy of The Supermale and now I remember I lent it
to someone back in 1995! How stupid of me! But there's bound to have been a
bicycle in there (or a tandem). Also did a quick browse through Shattuck's
The Banquet Years but found no ref. to Jarry on a bicycle.
... DAMN. Has EVERYONE lost their copy of the Cape Supermale?
(I've still got Barthes' _Elements of Semioliogy_ and _Writing Degree
Zero_.)
But check the cover of Shattuck's BY, and the picture between pp. 194-195,
and you have a photo of la décuplette.
This obviously links to The Perpetual Motion Food Race or The TenThousand
Mile Race which involves a five man bicycle in _Surmale_.
Then skip to Shattuck's _Selected Jarry_, and "The Crucifixion Considered as
an Uphill Bicycle Race"
[EEEP!!! Only JUST thought of this -- Galway Kinnell, anyone? -- "The Avenue
Bearing the Initial of Christ Into the New World"]
... but in the photos of Jarry between pp. 63-64 of the Shattuck/Taylor
_Selected_, there's an absolutely gorgeous photo of Jarry on a bicycle.
... and we haven't yet got to the rumour, true or not, that Jarry cycled
round the streets of Paris, firing off a revolver at every Aged Grandmother,
wheeling a pram, that he encountered.
Surely SOME Mad Graduate Student must have published an article on "The
Pataphysics of Jarry's Bicycle"?
> 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.
That's very curious. Anyone know why?
... Wish i knew too, Árni.
Robin
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