Wow!

Crumbs!

Would love to see an Irish version!

An extraordinary story, well told.

On the right, coming downstairs in a grey suit.

Trying to grasp a ghost.

Great example of the illustrator's art.

Yes, I'd noticed this too - great analysis.

Hooray!

Glad someone did this!

Exactly what it says.

Nobody quite seems to remember what happened.

"Oh, Christ!"

Fascinating and a bit sad.

From the December 1964 NYROB.

Extraordinary. #fb

The great Irish novelist Flann O’Brien’s debut, At Swim-Two-Birds, should have sealed his reputation as the equal of Joyce and Beckett. At long last, in the year of his centenary, the world is catching up.

via Bookslut, George Bernard Shaw's take on Joyce: "I am an elderly Irish gentleman, and if you imagine that any Irishman, much less an elderly one, would pay 150 francs for such a book, you little know my countrymen."

Quote from At Swim-Two-Birds about bed