Talk:At Swim-Two-Birds
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[edit] Exclamation mark
Geogre - I've only ever seen the quote with a final exclamation mark. Perhaps this is because it was part of a publisher's blurb.
Reading and editing this page has made me want to read this book again - I'll have to get it back from my sister first though! Paul Tracy
- Gotta meet that sister, then. :-) The reason I cut the exclamation point was just because it's terminal punctuation. Inside the parenthesis, it would have ended the sentence. Since we can always choose to quote all the words without the last punctuation mark, that's what I did. A bit school marmish of me, I know. I once taught that book to college freshmen. My colleagues thought I was nuts, but one of my students who had been failing went from F's to A's thanks to that book. She pointed out that the birth of the child in the hotel, with all the cowboys in from the woods and the pookah and Good Fairy, is a recollection of the Nativity, with the shepherds down from the hills. An amazing observation, and no critic I've read had ever noticed it before. Geogre 23:50, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
[edit] O'Nolan's other novels
"While O'Nolan wrote other novels, none achieved either the level of complexity or playfulness of At Swim-Two-Birds, and thus his accomplishments have not been as recognized as those of his contemporaries. [citation needed]"
- says who? this is a rather sweeping statement, and a not terribly accurate one at that, given the tortuous complexity of The Third Policeman 82.26.165.174 20:54, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
- Well for what it's worth I'd agree absolutely with the original comment. The sheer scope of AS2B, the range of genres it pastiches and themes it mixes up is stunning. It is a far broader conception than TTP, which is really rather linear and based around a single joke. TobyJ
[edit] ἐξίσταται γὰρ πάντ' ἀπ' ἀλλήλων δίχα
Just a big thankyou to whomever added the Euripides reference - I've waited close on 40 years to know that! What a marvellous asset Wikipedia continues to be. TobyJ 11:49, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
- It`s been a long, long time; but shouldn`t the translation be: for all things exist separated from each other? --328cia (talk) 04:36, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
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