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I asked it to write about this scene in the style of Molloy by Samuel Beckett. LOL 🤣 https://t.co/0uoWOPRRqz

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@PombaWomba There's a really good essay by Jean Baudrillard, called "The Gulf war did not take place" which is a lovely explainer. You'd enjoy it as a Zappa fan, some of Franks critiques of mass media were in line with a hyperreal reading

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I've been a fan of Dylan Thomas's poetry for years. I can't believe that I'm only now reading his short story collection "a portrait of the artist as a young dog". I love it when a poet completely commands the prose of a story https://t.co/dIYH9xUBKd

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If Cocaine Bear interests you. I’d like to direct your attention to Marian Engels deeply strange 1976 novel “Bear” about a lonely researcher who falls in love with and has sex with a Bear. It’s hard to place it. It was pitched as a romance novel at the time https://t.co/A8j91Wcan6

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I keep getting asked if I'm doing ads on the radio for the bookies William Hill. No, they have some fella who sounds like me. I don't support gambling companies. Also, William Hill was an actual Black and Tan in Macroom Cork, and he founded the bookies. So double no

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@melodyg I can't remember the episode. Something to do with an Ernest Hemmingway short story called big two hearted river.

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I’m reading Tales from the Thousand and One Nights. It’s fucking hilarious, some of the best folk stories I’ve ever read

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Fantastic. @BarryPierce interviewing Patricia Lockwood. I adore how she acknowledges foundational literature. There’s this subtle bang of Beowulf or The Táin off her recent book. Like it’s documenting the collapse of a crumbling civilisation in list form https://t.co/oxBGhZCXxX

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This is a brilliant fucking film and I'm glad to see it getting reapraised since Barry Keoghan has blown up. It's also a wonderful example of how to visualise a feature lenght film from a short story. The original written by @ColinBarrett82 from his collection "Young Skins" https://t.co/1rZQqFVSRn

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I read random pages of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, to lull myself into a peaceful sleep. It shouldn’t work, but it does. There’s a sheep counting repetition to the beige misery of his landscape