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thepaulconnolly.bsky.social
Writer Longlisted for Orwell Prize Shortlisted twice for Bridport Poetry Prize Longlisted for Bridport Novel Prize Looking for help to move things on
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Some writers devote today and every #Bloomsday to decrying Joyce’s masterwork. They should bear this in mind: saying Ulysses is overrated/unreadable tells us more about them than it, while publicly proclaiming that life is too short to read another person’s book is a high-risk strategy for an author
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I suspect it’s a little lively in Dublin now, and not all the Guinness being consumed will be the 0.0% variety… #Bloomsday
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Excellent anatomical take on hidden unspoken choked intentions Jude 👏👏👏
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Brief levitations of fate 👏🗡️☁️
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Which it definitely does Paul
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You’re very welcome Victoria - excellent poem and intriguing theme as ever
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The freight hidden in a piece of furniture. In associations and minor detective work of memory 👏👏👏
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Excellent sustained geological image/metaphor Jan
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Fascinating and haunting Stefano
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Excellent and timely Paul
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Hi Vic, @victoriaspires.bsky.social wonderful to have your inspiring and insightful comments again this week. Here's my first response to #promptcombo #hidden:
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Hidden associations of a mundane item 👏👏👏
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👏👏👏
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Love it!
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I wish I were in Dublin today #Bloomsday
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Morning Big Man. I was given collections of Apollinaire and Mallarmé poetry yesterday so probably those
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Indeed it is. However I often have to post my suggestion(s) late on a Sunday because my Monday can be congested but I usually make sure to repost them on the day itself. Anyway, thoroughly deserved Laura
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You are very welcome David - and it’s thoroughly deserved
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Thoroughly deserved my friend
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You’re most welcome Clare. Completely deserved 🙏💙
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Absolutely we do Karen. 🙏
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Thoroughly deserved Jan
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Thinking about this again the music lesson/love scenes in the recent TV adaptation of A Suitable Boy had some rather lovely examples, beautifully performed by Tabu
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There’s still too much concession to Musk even in this. He’s an investor, not an innovator, a parasite who profits from the innovations of others. He is very successful at this form of parasitism. But he’s no genius