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A special edition wherein Doc Sweets relates the parable of the Grand Inquisitor in Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov to part two of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy.
Two joints where peeps get they freedom jacked to save ’em from theyselves.
Of this evening’s (ongoing at time of posting) Finnegans Wake reading group at Sweny’s Pharmacy on Lincoln Place, Dublin 2 (Sundays at 6pm, Mondays at 1pm), ‘our’ Emily writes:
A wake before the wake of Finnegans Wake – there’s a handmade coffin and all. Everyone welcome. Drinks and soap and hang sandwiches.
Doc Sweets on James Joyce’s groundbreaking first novel – one of the first books where motifs are the most important element of the text…
… and Joyce be flipping them literary devices like a mother****ing hustler…
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvO6TFesKpI#t=10
https://soundcloud.com/conor-jack-creighton/reading
Conor Creighton writes:
I’m releasing a book called Saint Frank this month. It was printed on a risograph, hand collated and hand bound I also did the illustrations, oh and I wrote it too. Anyway, it’s a completely independent job so I’m also doing the marketing leg work. If you found a space to tell people about it, I’d be delighted. I describe it as a dirty fairy tale. Oh and Pat McCabe, John Banville and Peter Murphy have all said wonderful things about it.
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An ingeniously designed 16th century devotional text printed in Germany and currently housed at the National Library of Sweden – an example of sixfold dos-à-dos binding whereby six books are conjoined in one, designed to be read separately by opening each of six metal clasps.