He's a wonderful read. Erudite, but wears his learning lightly. A superb stylist - and I think we have him to thank for this classic description of Schwarzenegger in his glistening, pecs-flexing prime - “a condom stuffed with walnuts.”Originally Posted by Twin Towers
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No, not really.
My personal belief is that man is created for good things, i.e. for love.
I believe that if man can focus on the good, then he can make all things good.
Your notion of 'the devil being at God's elbow', when man was being created, is to suggest that there is something bad about man.
To my mind we, as (hu)man are indeed created in the image and likeness of God.
For me, I believe God to be 'good'.
Christians say that God is 'love'.
I believe this to be true, but only insofar as we demonstrate it to be so!
Human love is generally visible at its highest level in self sacrifice, and perhaps ultimately in a realistic notion of 'marriage'.
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Use ABE Books.
the hard road to the klondike - AbeBooks
The Irish are not a serious people. Colm McCarthy to Miriam O'Callaghan.
Best one-paragraph summary of an utterly gobsmacking book that I've ever read!
Picked it up as "filler" in the library in the late '80s and it completely did my head in.
He's never lived up to it, but gets drooled over for far lesser later work. Blood Meridian is a gamechanger, no matter what your game may be or what it may change into. Fantastic to see that it obviously has a similar effect on people maybe 25 years later.
Mo cheol thú
It may be a guy thing, grace - though I do love the King James-ish prose of Blood Meridian.
But given the amount of rewriting done by various (sometimes antithetical) hands that would hardly count as an original work, no?
Fiction, yes, I'll grant you that much: but hardly very original.
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Fiction - I'm rereading Third Girl by Agatha Christie as hard copy and "Waiting" by Gerald O'Donovan on screen.
Christie is very relaxing. O'Donovan is excellent as a record of life 100 years ago - beautifully written and full of all sorts of interesting words - such as sitting on a creepy - a 3 legged stool.
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A great book by a great "Irish" writer cut off (by a bizarre accident - a freak wave that drowned him just after he'd moved to Ireland) at what some (including me) think was just the beginning of his prime. A Liverpool-Irish oddity whose marvellous first book, Troubles, used the decay of an Anglo-Irish Big-House-cum-hotel during the War of Independence as a metaphor for the self-destructive nature of Empire (or at least the British Empire), he really hit his stride with Krishnapur.
The really funny thing about Farrell (as a friend to whom I introduced his work later said to me) is that the British really seriously do not "get" him at all. Krishnapur has often been either praised or damned as a story of Imperial derring-do. To most intelligent irish people I know who've read it, it's an enormously funny but deeply serious setting-about of the Empire at its height conducted with surgical skill using a reasonably affectionate but very sharp scalpel.
What did you make of it, gracethepirate? You must dig out Troubles - not half as precise, but also enormously funny/thoughtful.
In school in the 70s we laboured through the Irish original, Rotha Mór an tSaol, le Micí Mac Gabhann, at the same time that we laboured under Peig. The two books were, to say the least, accounts of contrasting life-experience.
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