The continual cracking of your feet on the road makes a certain quantity of road come up into you. When a man dies they say he returns to clay but too much walking fills you up with clay far sooner (or buries bits of you along the road) and brings your death half-way to meet you. It is not easy to know what is the best way to move yourself from one place to another.
It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follo… - Flann O'Brien
It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follo…
- Flann O'Brien
Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places. - Flann O'Brien
Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places.
A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let's emulate that wise old bird. - Flann O'Brien
A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let's emulate that wise old bird.
Rome wasn't built in A.D. - Flann O'Brien
Rome wasn't built in A.D.
The gross and net result of it is that people who spend most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get… - Flann O'Brien
The gross and net result of it is that people who spend most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get…
Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill. - Flann O'Brien
Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill.
When things go wrong and will not come right, Though you do the best you can, When life looks black as the hour of night, A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONL… - Flann O'Brien
When things go wrong and will not come right, Though you do the best you can, When life looks black as the hour of night, A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONL…
I am completely half afraid to think. - Flann O'Brien
I am completely half afraid to think.
Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand. - Flann O'Brien
Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.
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