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    t 1 i Patjence is its own reward, --Kga [Saul Bellow, asked how he felt about win- =~" ning the Nobél Prize, said: "I ddn't know. [Welter's block is only. failure Thavente written about it vet." : ae SS a ee ee Neue cease =-A. H. Studenmund 5/30/80 RS WOES Se Sith miscel= — Whe Biggest task humanity in the next 50 aneous people. --Debbie Freedman will be to prove the) experts wrong ; --Norman Cousins, SR) 1)57 Sestiny is the housemistress of compli- T don"t want to be floved; I ted plans. --W. Turner [i've always exceeded my girdle size. just want to be preferred.--andre =-Kay Everett “(Gide to Valery [vial P. Schneidre] (Moderation is excessive.-u. Axeen [The sun with oné eye vieweth [Tn life, there's only one rule: use all the world.-{Talbot, sverything you have. --KJA Henry Vi:l, 1:4 When you can do it wenout saying Tves, music sometimes runs hat it's like, you're saying what through my head without my it is. --bE willing it. This is one of [Dr. Fowler had honed the Socratic is that annoys me method into 2 sophisticate wgbout music. [The most perverted love is tha based on hate. --KJA #I've often wanted to be quoted. McKeown FIT at first | a5c ‘kes 03 pesn hen you are enjoying it most. ~German_prov more3 stop all these mood; wera ‘assnop puouALy ped jatdoad Jo 4OOT DET azeqs pue Sten = you don't suc! : ceed, go and oass lay.--via Bg at Shirley Hufs- a tedler 6/14/68] gi n.8 bedler 6/14/76} Bree [Happiness is Bul o have a lit See im 338 is aoa a = ok S cores Yoolf, 4/20/2: wine strong- Itanguage opens mouths. --KI= rN 0 ent atpomeMine aeyinet: the Ene s ant | e gilty of life are biology and eae 458), fos KIA Yes. Like everyone else ere Is it corec to ony that “The Chairs? is 3 9 1/9 Gh abort he fre of communication? Bo los no! IONESCO: RETURN OF 2 Ad] > A, PESSOPTINIST tl SARSHREET BB alo B S81 Ex 4518S 0. ‘uy qsuqe%e foesapezuoo u a2 gacunp ey aeua ‘uats Ao uty wouy feu nod Uy saeadde snquez EOOR TO DOOR Xx: 2 KIA [OTUs ROOT SANDWICH (chinese): Mix ground pork, chopped onion, fresh ginger, soy sauce and cornstarch, then fry until well done. Place the patty between thin slices of lotus root, dip into a batter made of eggs, water, salt and flour, then fry in vegetable oil until gplder ins cmpgeer tien caer ya Oh yes, dreams are reveatng, For example — Sasi tenen tree ree, 5/31/28 Then, Tike something the earth had produced b; to exist for m anything at all brown, --APHRODISIAC RECIPES, Crownover. B > 3 255 For in this the most terrible work of human genius it is with the very wee | 5°38 springs and sources of nature that her student has set himself to deal. GP | S27 Jhe veil of the temple of our humanity is rent in twain, Nature herselfgi . | °= oS we might say, is revealed--and revealed as unnatural. In face of suchaou- | 2355 world as this a man might be forgiven who should pray that chaos might _Jo ES ores come aqain.--Charles Algernon Swinburne, "A Study of Shakespeare" He ce | 86538 4 fonanuie “ereooncus "aH | Gye EtG sae Heras Waele EBs |82se eae sg28 9 =s BPs |stoe a | Zeus 5 jerg= a) |so%% KIO 6 Bit sce? Y ae aaa | fay 5 £i°3 3 (3858: IS BS ox Is 3 B. 2 g quiliz for the time being, it provi he cannot very easily be arouse letter, Tuesday had come down through Foster Avenue and Dundrum, brine-fresh trom sea-travel, 2 corn-yellow sun-drench that called forth the bees at an incustomary hour to their day of bumbling. Small house-flies performed brightly in the embrasures of the windows, whirling without fear on imaginary trapezes in the lime-light of the sunslants. Dermot Trellis neither slept nor woke but lay there in his bed, a twi- light in his eyes. His hands he rested emptily at his thighs and his legs stretched loose-jointed and heavily to the bed-bottom. His diaphragm, a metronome of quilts, heaved softly and relaxed in the beat of his breathing. Generally speaking, he was at peace. The utterance of a civil cough beside his ear recalled him to his reason. His eyes, startled sentries in red watch-towers on the brink of morning, brought him this intelligence, that the Pooka NacPhellimey was sitting there beside him on the cabinet of his pots, a black walking-stick of invaluable ebony placed civilly across the knees of his tight trousers. His temples were finely scented with an expensive brand of balsam and fine snuff-dust could be discerned on the folds of his cravat. A top~ hat was inverted on the floor, with woven gloves ef black wool placed neatly in its interior. : Good morning to you, Sir, said the Pooka with melodious intonation. No doubt you have awakened to divert yourself with the refreshment of the dawn.=-Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds. eyond a certain shrewd sense of sui Bohr franc Viennia without any special reason; lacking in intelligence or feeling or 09/1/2 _veye-"Buzyghue aeay ues nok ‘ysnous paey uagsTT nok =-Einstein, street.--Peter S. Feiblenan, Charlie Boy, p. 49 true believer from which —as though gliding up out of Ihe Heisenberg. ly contrived that, DOOR TO DOOR XxK: 3 #bon't do something only besause you cans do what only you can dp. #Diecipline is eI pra “Ricks § = NeKeown af es = 43,:.6 3 232230. .8 Bic (Bei (6 S38 tpt re 27s Baie Bie Basis Biz e268 := 2iz ig4.:5 325 if me # Eig igcsi 27g BTS eee ia OF Rio; co = ae Oe. eS It may be usefully mentioned here that I had carefully considered giving ah Gatward indication of the son's semthumanity by furnishing him with any the hal? of a body. Here I encountered further diffiqulities. ff given the upper half only, it would be necessary to provide a sedan-chair of litter with at least two runners or scullion-boys to caters it. The Cbtrusion of two further characters would lead to complications, the ex- tent of which could not be foreseen. On the other hand, to provide mere- Ty the lower half, videlicet, the legs and lumbar region, would be to Ty ine unduly the validity of the son and confine his activities virtually Ss to walking, running, kneeling and kicking football. For thae reason I decided ulttmately to make no outward distinction and thus| avoided any charge that my work was somewhat farfetched. Tt will be observed that Se Cravghission of several pages at this stage does not matertally disturb au3 the continuity of the story.--Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds. 33 = ge | : eos ve was like the genius of humanity, changing places with all lof us at. $32 pleasure, and playing with our purposes as with his own.--Wi]liam Hazlitt, Sas "Qn Shakespeare and Milton" Still, the first order remains the first order and the second the sec for ail that: no man who shuts his eyes and opens his mouth when pre and morality are offered to him on a Tong spoon can share the same \ Parnassian bench with those who make an original contribution to religion and morality, were it only a criticism.--George Bernard ShaW p._ 154 ] Haipin's Journal | Incidentally, it was at this point that Sollis and I discovered that we had worked in Mr, doyce's vast construction, although we had never met. Sollis Mas not at ail surprised at this, since (he said) nobody ever could find any- body else in that cosmos, nor could people remember what words they had said or what actions they had performed. He seemed annoyed at Mr) Joyce, but 1 refused to assent to his feelings, since I maintain that the man used me fairly and with kindness. Oh, you're a wise man, Mr. Orlick, and me waiting without what you would do with x. You're too fly now, said Shanahan. =-Flann O'Brien, At SwimsTwo-Birds. word to see @ 1s no work, nor device, nor Whatever thy git with all thy might; for ther Eeclesiastes (via Robert Kirset biog. of Housman) che grave whither thou goest DOOR TO DOOR MX: 4 in fone day all people will realize there is not a single idea thai ‘pe called true--that everything is a game--nationalism, interna’ religion, atheism, spiritualism, materialism, even suicide. Yo Tsutsik, that I ama great admirer of David Hume. In my eyes hi only philosopher that has not become obsolete--he is as fresh ai today as he was in his own time. Coney Island fits David Hume’ sophy. Since we are sure of nothing and there is even no evidel the sun will rise tomorrow, play is the very essence of human e: perhaps even the thing-in-itself. God is a player, the cosmos ground. For years I have searched for a basis of ethics and gav ‘BSuddenly it became clear to me. The basis of ethics is man's ri play the games of his choice. I will not trample on your toys ai Swill not trample on mine; I won't spit on your idol and you won’ Zon mine... --Singer, “Shosha" [via N. Wigington] i) nor wisdom, CHE! i 155 WHALE'S DELIG The aphrodisiac pol a waxy substance in tropical seas, ed in the West, as Orient, Near and Mi of the ingredients made perfume, but | used in sufficient Twhile an euthour i we estimate his po worst performance, dead, we rate them =-Samuel_Jehnson | fou can't expect solutions to psych: lems. --KsA_6/30/E0 nen I have mone ck VicKeoun I en NILE “Widge did not move. She maintained what she thought of as a kind of beige si S. Feibleman, Charlie Boy, p. 20 more than faintly tantalize re viewing KIA can really ionalism, know, is the d clear deavor, play- up hope. nt to a you t spit ‘YOU HAVE INSULTED ‘A WOMAN THIS CARD HAS BEEN ICALLY TREATED. THREE DAYS | YOUR PENIS WILL FALL OFF (orient ers & ambergri: reted by sper whales and often found floating jas been covet~ ell as the (dle East, but it was only in thede latter areas that it was deliberately and openly used as a sexual stimulant At present, ambergyis may be one used in Westen js such it is nm strength to do = yet living ers by his and when he is by his best. My dreams begin a4 stationery and end up as scrap paper.KJA qo find physica logical proo- everyoody doe ence.--Peter DOOR TO DOOR XXX: 5 KIA [The more you know about people, the less interesting they be¢ome.--KJA [KICKA-P00 JOY JUICE (Mid-Eastern): Tde @ large juicy onion, mix whe juice with honey; heat, cool, then add a portion of water into which powder of chicken peas has been mixed. The resulting potion is said £o be especiallly potent during colder weather, and is to be taken in small doses just once per occasion prior to going to bed. Fvou can't finance my generosity. --KJA Weaddingtons Shakespearean | Playing Cards’ P clasfiention peare’s a pe e RasDMAP 21980) DOOR TO DOOR 20x: 6 KIA [Conspiracy is the ultimate form of journalistic togetherness Judy Strong ; a his breathing there was not much sound and the silence around him |seemed to be- Ae Roo in this cubicle, as if the whole thing had risen unexpectadly on a dome Tong where salt from sone prehistoric swanp that Tay beneath the city.--Petey S. Feiblenan, | Coarlie Boy, P. 35-36 = [zou are old only when you're trying to be new. --V. Woolf [quoted by Carlos Fuentes, 5/14/80] | skersenaarout of the irrational?"|A. “You "-- {don't make sense, yo mde art—— lwhich is even better." --Fuentes, 5/14/60 ——— #Where are we, for spre? ~-Rick McKeown 6/31/80 gpazaeas spenggaaes gies i542 23229 aiid Beet ages? asi SBeo GeEeSe sii Ba 35322 20 332228 wetesigk, zeize 652522502 foc nee: gigaeeee 32529 22332253 | = LOVE MUSH(German): Pickle the ® desired quantity of mushrooms? , m in a sauce made of blended +a ee _| onion, garlic, parsley, real ® & inrad: 1889 wurde in den USA dieses Central Velociped valentian’ PEPPET, And wine y q 2 vac ae Let the Good Fairy take the stand, boomed the Pooka. Br geek oa I've been in the stand all the time, said the voice, the grand stand. BER PST R OS ine Where is this woman? asked Mr, Justice Lamphall sharply. If she does QO RB Ta PN SES not appear quickly I will issue a bench warrant. balae®” obo This man has no body on him at all, explained the Pooka. Sometimes I gee ee eer carry him in my waistcoat pocket for days and do not know that he is there.b | @ mE OR = Tr that case’we mist. declare the Habeas Corpus Act suspended, said Mr. “Se ahasm 20 Lamphall. Proceed. Where is the witness now? Come now, no horseplay. gia Soko ge This is a court of Law. gah ioet ead I am not very far away, said the Good Fairy. Ba Seog aan Ss Are you acquainted with the accused? asked the Pooka. Bae Og Po RE at Maybe I am, said the Good Fairy. mo ood koe eeE hat class of an answer is that to give? inquired Mr. Justice Caseys MO" GEG mom 5 sternly. i ree teal aE rete ‘Answers do not matter so much as questions, said the Good Fairy. Ree Bee eae good question is very hard to answer. The better the question the harder Eee the answer. There is no answer at all to a very good question. That is a queer thing to say, said Mr. Justice Casey. Where did you say it from? From the key-hole, said the Good Fairy. I am going out for a breath of air and I will be back again when it suits me. That key-hole should have been stuffed, said Mr, Justice Shanahan. Call the next witness before the fly-boy comes back to annoy us. *-Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds. DOOR TO DOOR XXX: 7 A grain of knowledge with the dawning of the day is a breakfast for the mind,--Flann O'Brien, At Swim=[wo-Rinds— Brieux wastes neither ink nor indignation on Providence. The idle de- spair that shakes its fist impotently at the skies, uttering sublime blasphemies, such as ~ "As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods: They kill us for their sport," does not amuse Brieux. His fisticuffs are not aimed heavenward: they fall on human noses for the good of human souls. When he sees human nature in conflict with a political abuse, he does not blame human na- ture, knowing that such blame is the favorite trick of those who wish to perpetuate the abuse without being able to defend it. He does not even blame the abuse: he exposes it, and then leaves human nature to tackle it with its eyes apen.--George Bernard Shaw T read Dickens and Shakespear without shame or stint; but their preg- nant observations and demonstrations of life are not co-ordinated into * any philosophy or religion; on the contrary, Dickens's sentimental as- sumptions are violently contradicted by his observations; and Shakespear pessimism is only his wounded humanity. Both have the specific genius of the fictionist and the common sympathies of human feeling and thought in pre-eminent degree. They are often saner and shrewder than the philosophers just as Sancho Panza was often saner and shrewder than Don Quixote. They clear away vast masses of oppressive gravity by their sense of the riduculous, which is at bottom a combination of sound moral judgement with lighthearted good humor. But they are concerned with the diversities of the world instead of with its unities; they are 0 irreligious that they exploit popular religion for professional pur- poses without delicacy or scruple (for example, Sydney Carton and the ghost in Hamlet!); they are anarchical, and cannot balance their expo- Sures of Angelo and Dogberry, Sir Leicester Dedlock and Mr. Tite Barnacle, with any portrait of a prophet or a worthy leaders they have no construc- tive ideas; they regard those who have them as dangerous fanatics; in all their fictions there is no leading thought or inspiration for which man could conceivably risk the spoiling of his hat in a shower, much less his life. Both are alike forced to borrow motives for the more strenuous actions of their personages from the common stockpot of melo- dramatic plots; so that Hamlet has to be stimulated by the prejudices of a policeman and Macbeth by the cupidities of a bushranger. --George Bernard Shaw rey bord rie Rep ed a man that he should intend to No man can he—tnyten ten that, since his aj R 2 ‘in a Mass Society" ifts of the spirit are neve! 9 is outside his control. --W.H. Auden, “Criticism 's of the acts he does wi ther: Indeed all he knows for certain is ely required of to do so er to though it is absolut others. the powe uarantee the effect upon o' of helping them. without him, |had at second hand. g DOOR TO DOOR XXX: 8 KIA [SNAPPING SNATIS (French?): Collect @ quantity of snails, fry injoil, mix with onions that have been oil fried, add a generous helping of |garlic Gloves and chopped parsley, flvor with a portion of dry red wine. | 4 ‘office box num: or died without, have moved, changed your pest fy jelivel You can ina A. he dev Kay) 11 do your jay return postage r mail that goes to ‘our members and is letting us know. (0 0 cause you i jen, At_Swim-Two-Birds. i ke ie, please not! fo LOS ANGELES Tif you di i | (AP) — ae ahaa } lecturer 't first class, out march bad blood is the back of the --Flann.0'Br “Every week we A ‘a business association hhere when the associ- ation’s director rem- inded its members. } A CUP OF TREMBLINGS Facing deep wine raised in the Tiled, earthen cup, the dark Opening into farther Dark, eyes wide, he could perceive ‘Around the rim of the dark, Breathings of the afternoon; As, eyes shuttered, he could see Sleep, so, opened, they would sho ined Lamont, of the blood isn’ Nature's warning, Mr. Shanahan. its but damn the good it w' It's our snot me’ "t attend to your inside. a) c DI IN Janpaay _POSsTERO. etce ceelny- aed oreo cele erates yr ce wv the merry When the quality Him death—but now momently In the heatt of the wine, for |Away, the! muses of waltz Moved, asf seen from a height [Down a ey defile, the pimples. face till y lin an unshadowed meadow. I'l] tel] you what it is, expla whole think our frien c Seonyena blackheads if you don Pare “THIS ARTICLE WAS SETIN ITCZAS ees . --John Hollander, ~ The king was on his throne, the satraps thronged the hall, a thousand bright lamps shone, o'er that high festival. Ornate curtains of twilled | beaverteen were draped about the throne. Near to the roof there was a Toagia or open-shaped gallery or arcade supported on thin pillars, each ASEFS Guilloche on its top for ornament; the loggia seemed to be packed with people, each with a cold-watching face. ie air was heavy and laden with sullen banks of tobacco smoke; this made respiration an extremely difficult matter for a person like Trellis, who was not in perfect health. ¢ He felt a growing queasiness about his stomach and also tormina, griping pains in the region of the bowels. His clothing was disarranged and torn and piteously stained with blood and other fluids discharged prob- ably from his many wounds. Generally speaking he was in very poor con- dition.--Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds. DOOR TO DOOR XXK: 9 KIA [1£ you write a novel as I do, you start with only a line--fox example, the fragment of a dream. You don't really know exactly what is going to happen. The writing is going to develop as you work and the pattern will emerge. At the end of the night, when you finisH dream— fg, you know that your dream has a meaning, but you haven't found it when you begin. My writing goes the same way. It's not preme litated, when you pegigit a2 though it were, because as soon as I intergret the wetning; a pattern can be seen, . . The source of my writing 4s sub- conscious, and there is a logic to the unconscious which must |be found. —-The Inner Journey of Anais Nin [via Juéy strong] _ igh coin (kfrica)? Reduce the seeds or nuts of the cola nitida plant to a powder and mix with water. The resultant drink is called “ooda" by certain Africans, and “bichy" by others. The col- nut is also its aphrodisiac effect. ----= If you listen hard enough, you can hear an; ‘thing .KJA ee eaten, ee “his most famous play about death, “Exit the © j signify, Sancta Spirito). -- Littie King.’ ‘of France. displays the “No,” Loneseo said “It’s a play consisting | White) Hart of fer haben * of my dreams. In dreams we never die, | Retard wile she waste Sree always young. In this play Tenntiaue of aru tan re fo quarrel with members of my family and eet fends with whom 1 quareled when they were alive. The fact that they're dead does Ti rare me, Death doesnot en or the suboonscous tis very smart an- other play of mine, infrequently performed, |} called ‘Man With Bags.' It was first done in {his eau’ in Baltimore, where i re- wed But S Sonics aaee. | Same ‘Does itamaze you tobe the subject of sym sof several deta. THEY TOWESCD: RETURN OF A «|| tify Corde an her 0, PESSOPTIMIST, Silvie Bevis and Gone the : US eee raise Te if ws ‘objection to an} Tt was a well-known fact that he was responsible for plenty of rascality ce ee zl and only simple people were surprised at the way he disliked the sunshine. =-Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds. KIA DOOR TO DOOR XxX: 10 I sat down on my front porch. Death was big. It had teeth and wings. It left claw marks in the skin, torn-out flesh pockets and | rows of black stitches, black stitches like train tracks in snow. It | could make a big man talk funny, talk wormy. And death would have to be | considered now, in the slow noon before the world began to spin again into the black, sky filled with ink-squid blood stinking, seething and hungry to bury someone. My father had pulled out his tubes. He had shadowboxed death in the middle-of-the-night hospital corridor. He had done battle alone. A LI force had been tapped into, a passageway perhaps inadvertently etched pcommit myself to out. It still stirred. It streched out enormous scale-encrusted arms|tle folly of looking It had talons and fangs. It took bites out of the sick and helpless. |at them. In any It stank. Its breath was a dull wind on cobblestone alleys cut betweefleyent and in all ruins of buildings, narrow ruts of stone streets smelling form tt he piss\politeness--I deem of a thousand generations of beggars and cripples and lepers. y face It was time to consider death. death was | | m2 clever. Death was a taker who left nothing, who even hid the bone. Death ts had great shadowy arms and shale breath. | the point you have A door had been opened. It would have to be closed. made 4s unimportant Kate Braverman, Lithium for Medea, because there = is surely i \nothing in the olaft If there is one virtue Shakespeare seems to prize above the yest in his |.,orig " to prevent ag favourites, it is fidelity.--Oliver Elton, "Shakespeare! Jdeceitil kangaroo i [Nea Beaumont flashed me a look of mingled suspicion and $|, €a8 5 pleasure, excitedly squeezing a small bun as Ye did so, ~ 1 EB g583= é <-sorrentino, Mulligan stew weB8 oS g225 ace & Twour name, said the Good Fairy, is one thing that you < §soc0 gece fe not related to me privately, There is nothing so [ESeS ~TSe>geo o important as the legs in determining the/Kangarool gueece q sRe"BE of a woman. Is there for example fur on/ [ aT MTBESSdsfeg = = : ccis eee mae your wife's legs, Sir? iE Sgt Esse ,eees Bb My name, said the Pooka, with an apo— gH esegseDeee F logetic solicitude, is Fergus MacPhel- Seo88 a2 7e-28 0 limey and I am by calling a devil or eee taee ces 18 pooka. Welcome to my poor house. I BES Se ehsey oe cannot say whether Miy ceese sat ca there is fur on my HOERE -B ge tS Bh wife's legs for I Sel SaSeegse oe have never Seen ae aoe poms oo them nor 96 I BoEoe fesle a ze intend to’ $25 0948 0St55 ay gi ghiais i "5 28 SOPSLORRDEYE GE Gog ctubeeeor mae S3Senveseage 28 eres eee es ets Fa eee ern ae eee oi getabeess= By Bere cspeccse Be Bogs facie cies Laake] FESeesESsEee & “Those? Oh, things to do, random thoughts, a te esslesssey and some ideas for my novel.” oe oe 22058 ESEcE0ESSsc% DOOR TO DOOR XxX: 11 KJA JARAB POWER (Arabia): Blend powdered almonds with sugar and th with water or milk to make a drink. [Then he saw that back of the nothingness {As for sleeping, that is provided for by in her eyes was another nothingness, two bales of straw distrib : a else et ard Crcemneneane ae pera on ne ee eet Suis Rehtng OR aL LE oer em es OS aE rc ae eo eg ea ence you id abo adds a touch of intimacy to tHe whole, wouldn't have thought she had 2. Raymond Cousse, Death Sty: A|Pig's Tale Wr, Shanahan Taughed in a cultured manner. mah fon Be deer gaieg te meen The riddle of the universe I might solve if I ahd a mind to, he satdy ight to. she but I prefer the question to the answer, It serves men like us as bottom- | was empty Jess pretext for scholarly dialectic.--Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds., - en mix Let us descend now to the lower ground where Shakespear is not dis- abled by his inferiority in energy and elevation of spirit, Take one ‘of his big fighting scenes, and compare its blank verse, in point of mere rhetorical strenuousness, with Bunyan's prose. Macbeth's famous cue for the fight with Macduff runs thu: Yet I will try the last: before my body I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff, ‘And damned be him that first cries Hold, enough turn from this jingle, dramatically right in feeling, but silly and resourceless in thaught and expression, to Apollyon's cue for the fight in the Valley of Humiliation: "I am void of fear in this matter. Prepare thyself to die; for 1 swear by my infernal den that thou shalt go no farther: here will I spill thy soul." This is the same thing done masterly. Apart from its superior grandeur, force, and appropri- ateness, it is better claptrap and infinitely better word-music. George Bernard Shaw OTSsaS i on 1 pos Burteaeza| 304 mi pey ou, 4 ad-—* UOT H -od ATpHOM Sty TTe UaTM dn BuTaaTS TTT3S sem oH Sxy-JO-STTEI eur wry punore—su ROG STTIEUD ay} gno pert Treus 2 ext fetta oT33tt {itis a matter mn of some concer that the avantigarde is beginning to “7 question the very notion of consumption. This is a plain | and simple denial of the hog’s raison d’étre, a basic re- jection. The evolution that has occurred over the past decade is significant in this regard. Under the pretext of substituting lean pork for fat, the first steps toward liq uuidation have been taken. The pseudo-discussion on quantity, supposedly opposed to quality—as if the twc were not interconnected—is only intended to_misleac q TSB Momisht be the tradiional is tho King of im oft sisal < ing the designs have 38 fad either wea headed, med. that for convenience in z tearing as by. the crowns they ‘the Jacks look thy raves ob advantage over ithe pips by chance a bears ulin the for they’ an peteo \Vierrad: 1889 hestauintan dia Rarlinar die Valnninad.Aenaane= o What is going to happen to me next? asked Trellis. Shortly you will be judged, replied the Pooka. The judges are before you on the bench there. I see their shadow, said Trellis, but my face is not in that direction and I cannot turn it. Their names, that would be a boon.--Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Tw DOOR TO DOOR xxx: 12 KIA Tor E/CL Staff ganz t - : egeda| F78eg |e Vou, ponsia sdeas (ing. Dept. 1ibrary vepreneatstivel 1 bs O| eee eno clea bpoeec|begsecanis care: 7 May 1980 8 gee a OR ORB Ed.” : Bijeee ese oe eae eae hose of you frustrated because che Egos. |S2EbS Es Periodical department -in the Library ‘absent-mindedly 2 22e7s|GR be e8Sh » Reopped the Bulletin of the New York Pubtte Libary BR EG als Op. 68 sig (of which we have a long run) when-{t ippened to chang goer als boeg eae a {te mame to Bulletin of Research in the Iumanitics, will Io oe 3 Pole Pine bo Bt? 2iBeured that the missing four or five years have BC PeealeE Pakoegh™ been bought and shelved. Among the recent issues is eee acele Pas o® ean bought as yoce! ro Virginia Wool. 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DOOR TO DOOR XXX: 13 KIA camel is unable to swim owing to the curious anatomical distribution |LOn1y. 2& wos ae tte weight, which would cause its head to be immersed if the animal — [noe pistol. Were placed ia deep water. Capacity in electricity is measured by the Tt was an empty "grad one microfarad is equal to one millionth of a farad. A carbuncle |snerry bottle. seg Feshy excrescence resembling the wattles of a turkey-cock. Sphragis~ In tied is the study of engraved seals,--Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds. few "Jn Ersilia, to establish the relationships that sustain Ene city's life, the inhabitants stretch strings from the corners of the houses, white or black or grey or black-and-white sere rGing to whether they mark a relationship of blood, of trade, authority, agency. When a eortrings become so numerous that you can fio longer pass, ston’ ‘them, the inhabitants leave: the Pelee are dismantled; only the strings and their supports remain. the houssuntainside, camping with theit household goods, Ersilia's refugees look at the Taby- rot ot taut strings and poles that rise in the plain. That is the city of Ersilia still, and they are nothing. they rebuild Ersilia elsewhere. They weave a simi They ferye more complex and at, the same time more regular than the other. vieend take themselves and their houses still farther away. Tan" vnen. travelling in the territory of Ersilia, you cone ¢Poe the ruins of the| abandoned cis se without the walls which do not last, without the bones of the dead which the wind cites way: spidernebs of intricate relationships seeking 2 form.' --Invisible Citie Italo Calvino, p. 61-2 Jar pattern of strings which they would Then they abandon A__FRIENDLY WARNING ment 's thoughts raced forward DEAR GUEST, j 7% when you arrived at the hotel or when you left the hote EPoes @uring the day or evening you have probably been accosted by Bors z Gorccea who tried to e¢ii you enord= with your name cseven [8 agoa8 Persone ieis (strings of flowers) or who put the leis around Boake then OF jete acasnded that you paid them anything from 20 | 233. yore to a dollar, The amount demanded fox these sndide ant goon Sear cai sdomiungite ler auch ite|eetteated|vou| cane togcoiar iain dete vee tGl is not proud of this unpleasant behaviour which is ze & spreading, The Management of this hotel apologises to those guests SPe eas noe ctured indignities when they have refused to “pay UBM: vieheet your support these persons indulging in this unpieasee pe Multiply and may become euch @ menace that guests wil te | & ane ea welk on the streets, May we ask you to help F133) a a i b ‘KOOOW WHY SHL HLIM SLVHOD eqsTTeaou & se 03 soul exTT NOA op yey ‘s cu pug ned op so FATXOTOUION tfamp out this disagreeable practice BY REFUSING TO FAY FOR | GNWANTED FLOWERS OR SWORDS. If the lei is put around your neck, LH ii ecgested thet you just take it off and drop it on the | | Soiieate saiieaue (ane) art, savon|icoucase to) co/thse because te knowo Wret guests havo baen insulted and abused when they pave refusedy Rae eae eonzaeyoatoS axyloitation, Fad) welcomed Veo - 23) Go ena scday) tate pas’ ands thelpcopie of F1j1 ere joenerons: 2ye gracious and they deplore this nasty behaviour by small but Seeeteearsup) ort tquess ii By eetusancpcobeneeR OLY Ey, these Se eeiere gou will bethelbinoget st) co retale Leal zcoute

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