Flann O'Brien: Doing

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“Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.”

Flann O'Brien book The Third Policeman

Source: The Third Policeman (1967)

Wisdom , Understanding

“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 ONLY MAN.”

Flann O'Brien book At Swim-Two-Birds

Source: At Swim-Two-Birds

Life , Night

“After a time," said old Mathers disregarding me, "I mercifully perceived the errors of my ways and the unhappy destination I would reach unless I mended them. I retired from the world in order to try to comprehend it and to find out why it becomes more unsavoury as the years accumulate on a man's body. What do you think I discovered at the end of my meditations?”

Flann O'Brien book The Third Policeman

The Third Policeman (1967)

World , Way , Error , Thinking

“Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man.”

Flann O'Brien

Source: "At Swim-Two-Birds" (1939), P. 22.