Lost in the Dalkey archives
Back on the Old Site (atomized sr. as I call it) I had a bicycle icon. I made icons for different post topic types on that site. No wonder I never actually wrote anything back then. Bicycles. Bicycle are important. Robert, noticing this at the time, asked if I had ever read any Flann O'Brien. I hadn't. Hadn't even heard of him. So, he said, there's your tip. I went off and read At Swim Two Birds which I borrowed from my sister. Q: what was it about? A: a pint of plain is your only man. Mr. Furriskey agrees. Flann O'Brien, Brien O'Nolan, Myles na gCopaleen
Flann O'Brien - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. I should think quarter-miles of the little ponies, But I might be beating a dead horse. Flogging Molly, so to speak. Reading more Flann O'Brien is on my list of things to get back to, but temporarily I'm glad I haven't yet. I can enjoy my TV in blissful ignorance.
I recalled all this a week ago when I noticed the London Times had an article which stated that the show Lost may incorporate plot devices from O'Brien novels
Look away now. There is connection between Lost and the books the Dalkey Archive [1] and especially the Third Policeman (where bicycles are explained). No, I have no links to the TV show's site or show related sites. I rarely go to big corporate sites. I've never visited the site for Lost even though I like the show. I don't care that much. And I can't stand macromedia flash (I still use dial-up). Overall I simply think too slowly to take in pop culture information from the internet. It leaves me feeling: over-involved.
I liked the brief feature of the John Pousette-Dart album Amnesia
Gracenote: Artists - Pousette-Dart Band on the show a few weeks ago. When the Dominic Monaghan charactor Charlie Pace is rifling through the Dharma Dome's record collection (the first thing I'd do), and paused to say a few lines while holding the cover up (try that with an iPod)... " When you hit me on the head with your beer bottle, something in my chemistry must have changed I got this ringing in my ears and a hazy feeling and I hear this voice inside begin to laugh...I hope that it's only amnesia, believe me I'm sick but not insane." I had already decided that whatever meaning could be drawn from the show Lost could be gained by a short meditation on Dharma. Addendum 22Mar06 Dharma breakfast cereal; where do I get some of that. Mmmm Dharma Crunch! I remember in my undergraduate philosophy classes the choice of what cereal you had in the morning exemplfied the concept of a morally neutral act. Morally neutral acts, the donuts of teleology. _______1. From where the publishing
house
Dalkey Archive Press gets its name. Which publishes Flann O'Brien, of course, but also
similarly intentioned authors as they find them. I see they published Nathalie Sarraute's novel Planitarium last year. I read that one too, a
number of years ago.
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