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I lived Catch 22, though not quite as badly. I heave an affinity for Vonnegut.

Vonnegut loved Heller. My favourite book by Heller (actually, my favourite book) is Something Happened. I’ve a signed first edition

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Melvin Carvalho

Seen this? Is v good.

Jimmy Carr describes me as "obsessed" with Finnegans Wake. I tried to get him into it, but he's forgotten his Irish roots :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyMubEjUAIk

Jeff 2y ago

This is also great! You have me on a FW binge fest sir

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Jeff

Thanks! I’ll check it out. Joyce lived for a while as a child about 10 minutes walk from my house

Jeff 2y ago

Who was that?? That was brilliant. The levels of references in those pages are beyond comprehension. I had to laugh at the part where he said he skipped some parts that were a bit difficult!

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Melvin Carvalho

Wonderful, thanks! That's a puzzle in itself. Interestingly ALP means goblin in German. + Traum = nightmare. Many beauties, many sorrows.

Fun fact:

"Beach published Joyce’s controversial novel Ulysses in 1922, and kept the shop open until 1941, when she was forced to close after refusing to sell her last copy of Joyce’s Finnegans Wake to a Nazi officer."

This is the thing you really need to listen to. You wont be disapponted.

https://melvincarvalho.com/jc/WINGS_OF_ART_06.mp3

Jeff 2y ago

Thanks! I’ll check it out. Joyce lived for a while as a child about 10 minutes walk from my house

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ƝαŢꀌαɳ_Ðгαƙ૩

👀 Fascinating and calming to watch this flock of birds 🤙

https://video.nostr.build/8ce24a42b16c69053e10d8ddac5173ea18bd401a4f9c68bf2a256634737035cb.mp4

#Nostr #GrowNostr #Plebs

Jeff 2y ago

It’s called a murmuration - always loved that word

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Melvin Carvalho

Seen this? Is v good.

Jimmy Carr describes me as "obsessed" with Finnegans Wake. I tried to get him into it, but he's forgotten his Irish roots :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyMubEjUAIk

Jeff 2y ago

The ad for the book is wonderful:

Buy a book in brown paper From Faber and Faber To see Anna Liffey trip, tumble and caper. Sevensinns in her singthings, Plurabelle on her prose, Seashell ebb music wayriver she goes

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Melvin Carvalho

Didnt see the ad, no. Must be quite something. I know the beginning/end well. Ulysses ends with the word "yes" and FW ends with the word "the".

It's a hard book to decipher. Even the first word has so many meanings, as does the title. I often wonder if it was declarative or imperative.

Decent enough commentary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzcxRU6e-K0

Jeff 2y ago

My copy of FW has a very long foreword by Anthony Burgess. I must see if I can find it . From memory he spends several pages explaining the first couple of paragraphs!

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Melvin Carvalho

Well the book is in a circle, so you just keep reading ... E'erawhere in this whorl would ye hear sich a din again?

Jeff 2y ago

The start/end of the book is quite beautiful. Did you ever see the ad for the book? Joyce wrote a little poem

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Jeff

Yes. Slightly different words though

Jeff 2y ago

Our eeny meanie minie Moeller version wasn’t with a tiger either… 🙃

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Séimí Mac Síomón

Anyone else sing this in school instead of eeny miny mo?

"My mother and your mother were washing some clothes.

My mother hit your mother a box on the nose.

What colour was the blood? "

*Whoever it lands on picks a colour*

"PURPLE!"

P-U-R-P-L-E

You're it!

#AskNostr

Jeff 2y ago

Yes. Slightly different words though

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Séimí Mac Síomón

The desperate need for established order after the easter rising and the civil war isnt to be overlooked. We may look back on it now and see it for what it is, an excessively prohibitive social structure, but don't forget the relative comfort from which we do so.

Jeff 2y ago

There’s truth in what you say but even at the time this was scoffed at

Jeff 2y ago

Ireland in the 1930s - good Lord

https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2023/1109/1415523-julia-clarke-public-kiss-crime-blackrock-louth-ireland-de-valera-1937/

Jeff 2y ago

#bookstr

I used to open this book on random pages and read it out loud. If I understood any of it I felt quite proud of myself

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/12/california-venice-book-club-finngeans-wake-28-years?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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Derek Ross

We're still on track to hit 2 million Zaps in the near future. We should hit this milestone in about 3-4 days, depending on how hard you all Zap. #nostrville

Jeff 2y ago

When moon?

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The Bohemian Bitcoiner 🇬🇧🇨🇿

I can't do everything online. If I need to update my details or change some account settings I have to go to a branch. It's so annoying. 😭

Jeff 2y ago

That’s annoying alright! I think I can do pretty much anything online. I’ve to go to a branch of I want to transfer money > 10k but that’s about it

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The Bohemian Bitcoiner 🇬🇧🇨🇿

A few usecases #bitcoin doesn't get enough credit for...

Never do you have to wait for the #bank to open. Lunch break? Have to go back later. Once it's open, you never have to wait in line to speak to the often grumpy clerk! The T&Cs are not always changing.

Do everything from your bed, it just works 24/7.

Jeff 2y ago

Agree but who the hell uses bank branches these days? It’s all apps these days thankfully

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