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Guinness Lager, strong coffee, deconstructionist fiction and Irish accents abounded this weekend in the Adams House Lower Common Room, as Richard Eoin Nash '92-'93 attempted a 24-hour long reading of Flann O'Brien's 1939 novel AT SWIM TWO BIRDS...
...Nash fortified himself for the grueling reading by downing a bowl of Life cereal and a pile of potato chips prior to starting at 12:10 Saturday afternoon-"late, in true Irish style," he said. For liquids, Nash confined himself to drinks both "black and diuretic--coffee and Guinness" only...
...Nash, an actor and Adams resident who is Irish by birth, embarked with gusto on his reading, modulating his accent according to which character he was reading...
...audience present at the start on Saturday, however, was rapt. Greer I. Gilman, who works at the Widener Library Preservation Department, was among those witnessing the start of the reading. Greer, who brought along her own dog-eared copy of the "obscure and very attractive book," said she appreciated Nash's "passion and his fanatic heart...
Senior Correspondents: David Aikman, Jonathan Beaty, Sandra Burton, Mary Cronin, Hays Gorey, Lee Griggs, Joseph J. Kane, J. Madeleine Nash, Edwin M. Reingold, Gavin Scott, Bruce van Voorst, James Wilde...