abode of fancy

[Jochen Stremmel]

That

‘We Irish are a shallow people, albeit perversely fair perhaps, as cruel to
others as to ourselves, treasuring the unconsummated and the failed, making
shallow friendships founded on fatuous fun that runs so cold in the bitter
end, backbiting and bitching and kicking our enemies when they are down,
snide wiseguys who refuse to acknowledge the depths, emotional retards
embarrassed by awkward topics away from which we shy, making nothing but a
mess of our feelings, those horrid truths we would prefer to edit than be
undone, to find the latent fun embedded in the torment, and make lukewarm
comedies from the hash of our life’s little disasters.’

sounds even better.


2017-01-07 22:38 GMT+01:00 rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>:

> sounds promising
>
> https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/dec/23/the-abode-
> of-fancy-sam-coll-review
>
> There are shades of Rabelais
> <https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/dec/23/featuresreviews.guardianreview1>
> in this gargantuan feast of lingual felicity, peopled with giants and
> morbidly obese alcoholic grotesques. The long-winded sentences seem to have
> been secreted rather than accreted (which is apt since the novel is awash
> with jizz, piss, puke, shit and snot). A single sentence describing a young
> woman walking towards her boyfriend under the anguished eye of a third
> character, who secretly pines for her, is agonisingly and hilariously drawn
> out over the best part of three pages.
>
> rich
>
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