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Overheard at Lem's:

Dust Bunny Queen said... 

If we are going to make up stupid scenarios, then go full tilt boogie!!! 

I have a vivid imagination :-D 

February 10, 2017 at 10:34 AM

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The song, recorded by the Full Tilt Boogie Band, has a spooky vibe -- sort of a like a Doors song without Jim Morrison.

"Absence is the highest form of presence"

~James Joyce

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Living in the Pabst...

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The Pogues --the band the Dropkick Murphies will never be.

Christmas Dinner Redux

The one that never was.

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How to top saying that it was John Huston's career-topping last movie?  The best of better films? A labor of love for a beloved writer?

My revision of that scene would be a metaphor for the old Althouse crowd. One by one they self-identify like guests at a dinner party that never really happened in real life.

The context was Irish -- as certain as Joyce was constrained to what he knew best. But, the theme is universal and cuts across literary media.

The Infernal City

 "a man who lives by exhibiting to travellers his grandmother's corpse" 

~James Joyce's personification of Rome. 

 And yet, Rome is eternal

Like love is.