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The Dalkey Archive
The Dalkey Archive | Flann O'Brien
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A riotous depiction of the extraordinary events surrounding theologian and mad scientist De Selby's attempt to destroy the world by removing all the oxygen from the atmosphere. Only Michael Shaughnessy and James Joyce can stop the inimitable De Selby in his tracks.
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Leniverse
The Dalkey Archive | Flann O'Brien
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This book is killing me. ? The local police sergeant has been studying Mollycule Theory and determined it to be "at work in the parish". Combined with lousy, bumpy roads it is making bicyclists slowly exchange "mollycules" with their bicycles. ?

quietlycuriouskate Oh my goodness, does this mean that some of my mollycules are currently in a dark, spidery shed with a leaky roof?! 7y
Leniverse @River_Voice Only if you have been throwing yourself against the walls. It appears to be the action of repeatedly bumping against something that will mix up the mollycules. Hence the increased occurrence of human-bicycle hybrids on badly maintained country roads. 😉 7y
batsy 😂 7y
quietlycuriouskate Now I'm thinking I should inform the local council about the peril they are putting their citizens in. I regularly cycle-bump to the swimming pool. I wonder if the thrashy guys doing butterfly are halfway to hybridising with the water...! 😱 7y
Leniverse @River_Voice Quite possibly! The sergeant's own grandfather was apparently 75% horse in the end! 7y
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The Dalkey Archive | Flann O'Brien
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The mothers always get the blame... 🙄

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The Dalkey Archive | Flann O'Brien

"Cogito ergo sum? He might as well have written inepsias scripsi ergo sum and prove the same point, as he thought." (p.15)

"Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder." (p.38)

Descartes gets a lot of pepper in this book. ?