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    jenks reacted to shiels's post in the thread The accelerating commodification of irishness with Like Like.
    McGahern is beautiful. He pulls so much out of the everyday simplicity. I’m reading amongst women at the moment and just finished the...
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    jenks reacted to Corpsey's post in the thread The accelerating commodification of irishness with Like Like.
    You wouldn’t kneel down to pray for your mother on her deathbed when she asked you. Why? Because you have the cursed jesuit strain in...
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    jenks replied to the thread The accelerating commodification of irishness.
    What I think about this is that again it has the feeling of truth rather than actually being true. Someone like McGaherne is about as...
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    jenks replied to the thread The accelerating commodification of irishness.
    Yeah I’ve read a few. Earthly Powers is the pick of the longer ones. Bizarrely enough he reminds me of Genesis P Orridge - a brilliant...
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    jenks reacted to Corpsey's post in the thread The accelerating commodification of irishness with Like Like.
    I read Clockwork Orange a long time ago, like everyone on here I suppose Never have read his novels, no. The ones that are highly...
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    jenks reacted to Benny Bunter's post in the thread Poetry with Like Like.
    @sus
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    jenks replied to the thread Poetry.
    I think what I love is his unembarrassed sincerity which is awkward for many modern readers who require a veil of irony or some such but...
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    jenks reacted to luka's post in the thread Poetry with Like Like.
    I love whitman. Hes a hero of mine. Ive only read a bit of song of myself. Nothing else. Its totally superflpus for me to read more than...
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    jenks reacted to version's post in the thread Dostoevsky with Fire Fire.
    I read Cynthia Ozick saying something similar in an interview the other day. The author I came back to My aversion to Dostoevsky was...
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    jenks reacted to luka's post in the thread Herman Melville with Fire Fire.
    A Pact Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Tumblr View print mode Copy embed code Add this poem to an anthology Ezra Pound 1885...
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    jenks reacted to sufi's post in the thread Manic Street Preachers by Owen with Like Like.
    https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/mislaid-plans @owen has no shame, i can honestly say i was never a seventh day adventist and am...
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    jenks replied to the thread Dostoevsky.
    Just finished a re-read of The Idiot. I think Dostoyevsky is like an anti -Dickens - he doesn’t do architecture- instead the text is...
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    jenks reacted to luka's post in the thread Work with Like Like.
    today was my 15th dayw at work in a row. my record is 29 days in a row. i love work. i hate days off. they depress me. i will work 9...
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    jenks replied to the thread Poetry.
    Just put an order in for this. Thanks.
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