'Both Flann O'Brien in At-Swim-Two-Birds and Samuel Beckett in his great trilogy of French novels capitalize on the anti-social quality of literature, the fact that the writer is not speaking, is not drinking, is confronting nobody warming and warming to nobody, but exists shut away in a room setting on pieces of paper word after word… a deed the very antithesis of everything that Irish culture prides itself on being.'

Littera gesta docet; quod credas allegoria; quid agas moralia; quo tendas anagogia.

… you can see… only if…

'… to lead speakers and listeners unaware of each other's existence to talk to one another…'

The 'visual room'?

'… später liest er Bücher, die Zeitung, Briefe, etc.'

'… multiplication of grief and toil…'

The little kids on the playground asked, 'You down with O.P.P.?'

Teachings about teachings; non-teachings about teaching.