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The look of a Catholic Church compared to a Protestant one

Kevin Barry: Funny, actually—writers of the American South often have a resonance with Irish writers. A lot of the concerns seem somehow familiar. A lot of cultural influences in that part of the United States come from Ireland in terms of the music and so forth. Language that originates in...

I watched the film again recently, it’s still brilliant and makes me feel queasy and excited

He hated it in the end and hates the Kubrick film, tried to get it canned. And the burglary rape scene was his way of processing his wife’s abuse by some off duty soldiers

This perfectly captures the English character and contains all of the elements you describe in your next paragraph

His interviews are great. I’ll get the ink trade thank you. I’ve only read a clockwork orange …. Made me feel sick for a while after, the language lingers and loops in your head like a bad music hook. Have you read his novels?

The are not sure what truth is. They have a system of logic that defies logic. The only country that can be regarded as a custodian of unchanging human truth!

Some brilliant bits there. Ulysses as short story. I agree with the oral tradition, prioritising craic and willingness to abuse the language as being the main powers at play. But it’s a biiit much isn’t it? The inscrutability of the Irish psyche thing I am very suspect of. patronising the wee...

Anthony Burgess foreword to a short story collection: Any man, whatever his nationality, has a right to admire and to propagandize for Irish literature, but it helps if he possesses Irish blood or a mad capacity for empathizing with Ireland. Although I call myself an Englishman, my grandmother...

Could listen to him all day

Wipe those wee white bits from the side of your mouth and relax anto

Was watching an interview with burgess the other day and he was making all kinds of of very funny generalisations about catholics and Protestants and Welsh sexuality with breathtaking conviction and authority. He was answering the questions before the interviewer finished asking

Certain directors get a free pass and are too big to challenge. Too much money invested and deadlines to hit, people to be paid, show must go on, can’t stop it …. Total muck, failed satire, awful writing, hammy overegged acting, all kinds of unresolved threads, tonally jarring, piss piss piss

I absolutely loved the host and parasite too, but wha the fuck was that and how did it get made

Just watched mickey 17 and it might be the worst thing I’ve ever seen. Considered walking out, still angry about it. Incoherent embarrassing mess straining and failing to be funny for 2 hours

duh

You are the magic @Corpsey

But the trick is to realise YOU are the magic son

We are desperate to find the magic elsewhere

Teh red car theory