Word: flann
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...THIRD POLICEMAN, by Flann O'Brien. A brilliant Joycean romp through the nether world, written by the late Irish novelist in 1940 and now published in the U.S. for the first time...
...THIRD POLICEMAN, by Flann O'Brien. A brilliant Joycean romp through the nether world, written by the late Irish novelist in 1940 and now published in the U.S. for the first time...
...master of the many-splendored art of Irish malarkey was Flann O'Brien, pseudonymous author of At Swim-Two-Birds. Flann O'Brien was one of the pen names of Brian O'Nolan, wit, playwright and civil servant. Under the name of Myles na gCopaleen, he wrote a satirical column for the Irish Times; he died in Dublin on April 1. But in all three identities, he was a great kidder. At Swim, first published in London in 1939 and twelve years later in New York, has since gathered a subterranean reputation-and thus this new edition...
...SWIM-TWO-BIRDS by Flann O'Brien. 315 pages. Walker...
...Flann O'Brien, the man with three names, might have enjoyed a last posthumous joke in the last paragraph of his brilliant book. He cites a German who was hung up on the number three: "He went home one evening and drank three cups of tea with three lumps of sugar in each cup, cut his jugular vein with a razor three times and scrawled with a dying hand on a picture of his wife goodbye, goodbye, good-bye." Even the Irish don't joke about the Trinity except in dead unearnest...