Sunday, October 05, 2025

Happy 114th, Flanny!

It's all a matter of Omnium, eh? ;-)
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[...] people who spend most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles [...] 
get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle
as a result of the interchanging of the atoms of each of them 
and you would be surprised at the number of people [...]
who are nearly half people and half bicycles...
(from "The Third Policeman")


Flann O'Brien *5 October 1911

Before anyone erroneously claims he is dead: Those few people still taking for granted Flann O'Brien died 1 April 1966: Flann fooled you all.

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    1. I see Flann raising a pint of plain and Aristophanes nodding. ;-)

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  2. Sort tenim que no morin mai.
    Un altre llibre a la llarga llista de pendents. ;-)
    Petonets, Sean.

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    1. Per cert, el darrer post que em surt a la llista de lectura és l'anterior.

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    2. I hear if Joyce had not been ding-dong, he had written like Flann. ;-)
      I set Omnium to ‘private’ for about 20 hours due to a crawler attack and then set it back to ‘public’. Blogger probably hasn't noticed the latter yet. I wouldn't be surprised.

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  3. Hi Sean - I admire your knowledge of the world in literature ... lots to learn ... cheers Hilary

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    1. I've probably forgotten more in my life than others have ever learned ;-)

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  4. Anava a dir que no se m'actualitzaven els teus posts al meu blog, però ja he llegit la teva resposta a la Paula. Espero que es normalitzi aviat. Però si no ... recordaré que he de pasar per casa teva encara que no et vegi a la barra lateral.

    M'encanta aquest fragment que comparteixes. Jo podria ser meitat persona, meitat bicicleta (estàtica! 😜)

    Una abraçada, Sean.

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    1. Gràcies, Carme. I don't know why Omnium isn't updating, but I don't feel like spending 24 hours a day looking for the cause.

      So, so. You're 50 per cent bicycle, then?! ;-)
      Abraçades!

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  5. Back then, maybe they were half bicycle, now are they half phone?

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