Nicholas Allen Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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And you, child of my blood, Of the gods on high Olympus, be you the first In clemency: rid your hands of those weapons. Aeneid, Book VI, trans. Seamus Heaney

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He was in another world: he had awakened from a slumber of centuries. James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Born on this day, 2 February, 1882 https://t.co/MeouX9jGIZ

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But we can love a shade, you know, being shades ourselves. Eugenio Montale, 'Xenia'

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“I wonder who’s put into prison-ships, and why they’re put there?” said I, in a general way, and with quiet desperation. Charles Dickens, Great Expectations https://t.co/lnsr7ltvPj

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The connection between Stephen Maturin and Stephen Dedalus in the Patrick O'Brian novels never occurred until 'Desolation Island', although it should have in the divided mind, the accommodations, the higher learning and veiled licentiousness.

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My review of @kathydjourno's powerful memoir, Finding my Wild, @OBrienPress. One of several recent books by @nphegarty and @andysaibhcarter among others to share a fascination with beautiful Inishowen. Do visit, but not all at once. https://t.co/8DguTj7idl

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“Here it is,” said Davies and I looked with a new and strange interest at the long string of slender islands, the parallel line of coast, and the confusion of shoals, banks, and channels which lay between. Erskine Childers, The Riddle of the Sands (1903) https://t.co/MSUyK274CK

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“Here it is,” said Davies and I looked with a new and strange interest at the long string of slender islands, the parallel line of coast, and the confusion of shoals, banks, and channels which lay between. Erskine Childers, The Riddle of the Sands (1903) https://t.co/MSUyK274CK

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At college she'd had a boyfriend called Columba, an engineering student from Fermanagh with a face like a martyr who read Graham Greene in the pub. Louise Kennedy, Trespasses

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the masts complained, the taut rigging sang with a greater urgency... the complex orchestra of cordage, wood under stress, moving sea and wind, all-pervading sound, exalting to the sea-borne ear Patrick O'Brian, The Mauritius Command @RussManheimer