Your brilliantly bonkers but perfectly poised poetry is what pleases us, Flann.
Because At Swim-Two-Birds is heavily laden with moments of poetic beauty that cut through the absurdity of our world with startling clarity. Beneath this novel’s wonderfully weird word-playfulnesses are sentences that seem to shine with a deeper truth. And on second glance his whimsical words would certainly seem to be more profound than they at first appear.
Flann delightfully dismantles the absurdity of human ambition and the human condition. In his investigation of the fundamental strangeness of reality, he blends humor and truth like a master distiller of fine Irish whiskey. His wisdom may masquerade as nonsense but in asking us to see the world differently, here is a writer worth wearing.