>The first thirty pages, said my father, turning over the leaves, -- are a little dry; and as they are not closely connected with the subject, -- for the present we'll pass them by: 'tis a prefatory introduction, continued my father, or an introductory preface (for I am not determined which name to give it) upon political or civil government; the foundation of which being laid in the first conjunction betwixt male and female, for procreation of the species-- I was insensibly led into it.--'Twas natural, said Yorick.
Sterne, master of that hybrid trope, the pleonasmic chiasmus.
Jacob Robinson
Steven Coogan was kind of the British sit com equivalent of Seinfeld around the same time. You might like the movie if you give it a chance.
Joseph Nelson
>he's nowhere near as hard to understand for me as, say, At Swim-Two-Birds. This one always trolls me. At Swim makes perfect sense even in its nonsense words. Burgess' made up words are a slightly higher order of hard to grasp for me. I don't know if it's because I'm Irish and so the semiotic style just lines up easier, or if these books are actually hard even with background knowledge. I laughed my way through At Swim though like it was written by someone making jokes at high school student level though.
>trolls Flann best troll. He got letters to the editor about his column banned because he sent the editor so many troll letters, the editor was afraid to print any in case he was actually printing one of Flann's letters to himself.
Parker Johnson
these are the best threads but they never survive.
Xavier Morris
Veeky Forums doesn't deserve nice things
Blake Lopez
>I don't understand why it's so rarely discussed here >It's great There's your answer
Jayden Jenkins
God, just those opening paragraphs alone about winding the clock are gold! Unfortunately I left my modern library edition at my girlfriend's house in England when I visited last. I'll start a thread about it this summer after I retrieve it.
Jaxson Morales
I will not make my boyfriend wind the clocks at inconvenient times.
Nathaniel Hughes
I see it discussed all the fucking time here. Why do you guys feel the need to jerk yourselves off over nothing.
Juan Campbell
>I'm admittedly intimidated by the length. Make sure your mind is well lubricated and take it in slowly. It's always a mistake to just thrust right in, especially at that size.
