#At Swim-Two-Birds

[theblackestofsuns]

At Swim-Two-Birds (1939)

Flann O'Brien

Plume Books

[outstanding-quotes]

The people that never exert themselves at all, these are the boys that win the prize. Show me a man that is always fussing and rushing about and I will show you a man who never did a day’s work in his life.

Flann O’Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds

[fremdwortlexikon]

Schlußfolgerungen auf der geregelten Grundlage der Arithmetik sind des Menschen Schlüssel zum Unendlichen. Gott ist die Wurzel von minus Eins. Er ist zu abgründig, als daß er von menschlicher Gehirntätigkeit erfaßt werden könnte. Das Böse dagegen ist endlich und verstehbar und läßt eine Berechnung zu. Minus Eins, Null und plus Eins sind die drei unlösbaren Rätsel der Schöpfung.

Flann O'Brien, In Schwimmen-zwei-Vögel

[lesrabiates]

A brand new video for "Lovely How I Let My Mind Flow" by Swim Two Birds, originally recorded in 2001 and now fully remastered. Enjoy a wild trip! Achim Färber on drums!

[quotessentially]

From Flann O'Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds

[sabr33zy]

birthday dinner :)

and dessert! 🍒🎂✨

[stinkrascal]

pick 8 pictures from pinterest for standstill!! (a moodboard)

heyyy so im actually really awful at moodboards but i do save pictures of things that inspire standstill so heres some of those! sorry they arent like aesthetically cohesive. standstill talks about a lot of different themes all neatly tied together w the thin thread of a romance plot so sometimes it's hard to describe those in a way that feels coherent, even in picture form. hopefully u get the idea though 👍

[okayplaguerat]

oooh requests! any chance for birdrick I must take. ;)

“What are those two talking about?”

Honestly, i though Rick would be his most affectionate back in his flesh curtains days, so I thought I’d draw them having a small private moment, wonder what he’s telling him!

I have another bit of BirdRick I many do later as a little treat as well! Had good fun with this one :p

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Rick and Morty Requests are still open!!

[keeps-ache]

mm i Neeed to go the beach

[fuzzkaizer]

Blackstrap Electrik Co. - The Third Policeman

"Reserve-series very verdant, very one-off Irish OC44 effect I mean, those guts. I mined my stocks for very rare, very high end, and very green caps and resistors. Save the filter caps, all other components are the only ones I had. One and done! Almost every wire is a different piece and shade of old unbranded green. Did I roll through dozens of transistors to find one that biased up to 6.66v with my green resistors' values? I didn't not 🤦🏻😁☘️😍💚🥦 The motor is a special NOS Mullard OC44 in very high gain for a self-saturating, very power tubey effect. Full range tone control too. Bring this and yer Vox to yer next concert performance, and you'll look totally stylish Brit House, but sound like a green bull beating its sylvan bullocks. Based on the titular Irish novel about . . . Bicycles"

cred: instagram.com/blackstrap_electrik

however, it might be also dedicated to "At Swim Two Birds":

"It is important to remember that he reads and writes only green books. (...) All colours except green he regarded as symbols of evil ... Although a man of wide learning and culture, this arbitrary rule caused serious chasms in his erudition. The Bible, for instance, was unknown to him and much of the knowledge of the great mysteries of religion and the origin of man was acquired from servants and public-house acquaintances and was on that account imperfect and in some respects ludicrously garbled. It is for this reason that his well-known work, Evidences of Christian Religion, contains the seeds of serious heresy." - Flann O'Brien, At Swim Two Birds

cred: librarything.com/topic/313902

[outstanding-quotes]

Flann O’Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds

[sivavakkiyar]

Said was into Pound?

I don’t know about into, I’m sure he had some appreciation. Said always had some appreciation seemingly; I only first read Naipaul because Said kept saying his books were ‘nevertheless beautiful, masterful’ etc. When I said ‘Said liked this one’ tho I meant Hugh Kenner, in retrospect pretty obvious, but I was surprised to find him quoting and referencing The Pound Era (a great book tbh) and The Stoic Comedians in his first book Beginnings.

[meetingpoints]

In terms of fiction this summer i want to read Beckett & Flann O’Brien since they are post-joyce and i am post-ulysses… i also have to read Moby-dick on my boyfriends recommendation. Too much to read & such little time!!!

[carldoonan]

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Here's a set of "12 Days of Christmas" drawings that I never finished back in 2019.

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1939 – At Swim-Two-Birds, a novel by writer Brian O’Nolan, writing under the pseudonym Flann O’Brien.

At Swim-Two-Birds is a 1939 novel by Irish author Brian O’Nolan, writing under the pseudonym Flann O’Brien. It is widely considered to be O’Brien’s masterpiece, and one of the most sophisticated examples of metafiction. The novel’s title derives from Snámh dá Én (‘Swim-Two-Birds’), a ford on the River Shannon, between Clonmacnoise and Shannonbridge, reportedly visited by the legendary King…

[manquebusiness]

Maybe your true love knows you're trying to stock a game preserve, did you ever think of that?