In the canon
At Swim Two-Birds
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1939
- Pages
- Pages 220
A lazy Dublin student is writing a novel about a tyrannical author, whose own characters, borrowed from cowboy pictures and Irish myth, get so fed up with him that they drug him, put him on trial and take over the story themselves.
Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception
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