11 November 2009

Initial Ideas

After reading extracts from At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien and finding reviews and opinions about the book - the following words, phrases and ideas have given me inspiration:
Addressing the devices of fiction 
Exposing illusion 
Finn MacCool
Fair
White 
Bright 
Sureness
Certainty
Irish 
Guinness
Student
Smoking 
Horse Racing tipster
Narrative Chessmen 
Catholicism
Postmodernism 
Teeth stained by tobacco 
Zany 
Deadpan
Manuscripts 
Laziness
Hangovers
rebellion 
Cattle Ranchers 
Cowboys 
Breaking-in Colts 
Pigs Grunting 
Insanity of Irish History 
The Riff is the point 
Mad King Sweeney turned into a bird at Swim-Two-Birds 

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