so y'all are saying that this story that purports to be told by an elderly Irishman is overly long and rambly?
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sure, then your man Patrick was there - not Patrick O'Connor, being as he was away killing that fellow in Dublin, but Patrick - now, what was his name, the one who married Bridget's cousin from Limerick?
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the most famous Irish novel of all time takes 700 pages to tell the story of one day in which nothing very much happens
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Replying to @BeijingPalmer
If I remember it right, in Goncharov's "Oblomov" it takes the main character 160 pages to get out of bed.
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That’s kinda how Swanns Way is too, dude just lies in bed eating cookies for hundreds of pages
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Picturing a spare, terse 50 page novelette where Proust has an oatmeal raisin cookie and then powers through his to-do list for the day.
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I think we can all agree that would be a straightforwardly superior work to the original.
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Google Calendar Reminder of Things Past
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