10-30-07

"As already said, however, de Selby provides some genuine mental sustenance if read objectively for what there is to read. In the Layman's Atlas he deals explicitly with bereavement, old age, love, sin, death and the other saliencies of existence. It is true that he allows them only some six lines but this is due to his devastating assertion that they are all 'unnecessary.'"

-- Flann O'Brien, The Last Policeman