@LoneStarMick I like almost anything that man writes.
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Michael J. Collins, MD
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Michael J. Collins, MD
@MJCollinsMD
Author of Hot Lights, Cold Steel; Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs; All Bleeding Stops; and, coming this summer, The Shieling
Chicago, IL Katılım Eylül 2018
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The more you hope the more you hurt. The best of us hope the most. That’s God's sense of humour.
NAILL WILLIAMS, History of the Rain
Tom Cosentino@ThomasCosentin6
Good morning from the beach. Fun day of training at work. Found a Le Creuset baking dish on sale for $99. I'm going to re-read Niall's ""History of the Rain" next and think about standing under the eave in Cahermuphy to stay dry and Niall telling me what type of rain that was.
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The three of us were occupied in putting glasses of stout into the interior of our bodies and expressing by fine disputation the resulting sense of physical and mental well-being.
FLANN O’BRIEN, At Swim-Two-Birds #OneDublinOneBook 2006
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@LoneStarMick I like most everything that Joseph O’Connor writes, but that one, especially.
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Having lived in a great many places, Hugo had what is sometimes called a well-stocked mind but his knowledge had not the prim tidiness the phrase connotes.
JOSEPH O'CONNOR, In My Father's House
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@sconserlodge I will thank you to stop using the G Word in my presence.
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@sconserlodge Looks delicious. Are you in Broadford or Portree?
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@sconserlodge Norrie is the best. He will be greatly missed.
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Last dinner service with a friend of 19 years its been an absolute pleasure ...many a dram in retirement....
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The last Norrettes......its the end of an era ...5 more days..
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Reflecting on 2025...
Big changes at the lodge 2026 ..more later ..but a nice shiraz makes the decisions easier...dont panic ...we still love it ❤️
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@LoneStarMick I may buy this book on the strength of that quote alone.
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"Mothers are queer creatures, are they not? They love us madly until we display the signs of our true selves, until we're no longer malleable. Then they choose whether to love us anymore. Or not."
NUALA O'CONNOR, Becoming Belle
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@sconserlodge Is there an article about your match in the Sconser Herald?
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22 weeks after closing...this was our last session. Craig 162 Alfie 160 ...Best of 9 ...to finish ....
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@LoneStarMick I have always enjoyed Flann O’Brien, but never read that one. How is it?
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—Did I hear you right when you said "humble," Father? An humble Jesuit would be like a dog without a tail or a woman without a knickers on her. Did you ever hear tell of the Spanish Inquisition?"
FLANN O'BRIEN, The Hard Life: An Exegesis of Squalor
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He had often gone weeks and sometimes months without seeing another human being or hearing a human voice. Seeing the light of welcome in another person's eyes, the laugh, the warm handshake, the clap on the back—God how he missed those things.
MICHAEL J. COLLINS, The Shieling
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It was cold all right, but there was a huge sky now of stars like wedding rings and all just thrown about against something as hard looking as an enamel basin. He half expected to hear them rattling.
SEBASTIAN BARRY, A Long Long Way
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@LoneStarMick Great book. I could read Niall Williams forever.
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This is what happened in Faha over the Christmas of 1962, in what became known in the parish as the time of the child.
To those who lived there, Faha was perhaps the last place on earth to expect a miracle.
NIALL WILLIAMS, Time of the Child
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@sconserlodge That must be Iona and one of her classmates.
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Don't have to be in Spain for alfresco drinking.....blankets we're supplied ..
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@sconserlodge Is that Norrie down at the bottom of the pier?
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@LoneStarMick A chilling, dystopian book - but a great read.
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You cannot put a stop to the wind, he says, and the wind is going to blow right through this country, but please don't worry about me, I'll be fine on my own, no one is going to make trouble for an old man.
PAUL LYNCH, Prophet Song
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Here in Kiltumper the turning of autumn tends towards bronze and yellow. There are few enough things that turn red, but the rich tones of the blueberry leaves were something to be, well, savoured. You just had to stop and take them in.
NIALL WILLIAMS and CHRISTINE BREEN
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