A Word about a Bicycle

Mr Nold states: ‘I was attracted to Irish writers at an early age. Pethaps from seeing the notorious TV interview with a scronulated Brendam Behan, which was satirised on a track of Peter Sellers’ first 10-inch LP recording, called, I think, The Critics. We could recite it by heart. Then Borstal Boy and the plays were swiftly consumed, engendering an interest in the writers and painters of Ireland, Jack Yeats foremost among the latter.. 

‘James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man and Dubliners led me to his entire output. While I could not claim to fully understand Ulysses in its entirety, its brilliance and musicality appealed greatly. Then came O’Casey, the playwrights,  and Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and so on. 

‘When I found a paperback of At Swim-Two Birds in Sydney in the early 1960s, it entertained and impressed me so much that Flann O’Brien instantly became my favourite writer anywhere, any time.  It was a while before his other books appeared, but when The Third Policeman was published posthumously it became and remains my all-time favourite book. Then The Poor Mouth lured me to the Blasket Islands, Tomås O’Crohan and those who followed him. Flann O’Brien, along with Joyce and Beckett, is now rightly considered a corner boy of the Irish Literary Triumvirate.

‘This graphic version, as stated within,  is a tribute.’

It’s said that The Third Policeman may be, in today’s Newspeak, somewhat ‘challenging’ for some readers, so to point the way to actually reading and enjoying it, Mr Nold has created About a Bicycle, an illustrated  key to the themes and intricacies of the book — and you can now download it free of charge.

aboutabicycleDownload

You can find out more about Flann O’Brien and The Third Policeman on this Wikipedia page.

Thylacines Out of Season 5

THE STAFF here at bazznold, due to INTERNECINE distractions has undergone some Alterations of Editorship. R. Nold himself has become Crepusucularly involved in attempting to record for posterity his daily life in song and dance, yet still fulfil his obligatory bazznoldian duties to spread this necessary message. He always claims he has “staff to do that”, but he does not.
ABOUT”THYLACINES OUT OF SEASON”:
The mission is this: we must dream the thylacine back into existence, as almost everything that exists now was dreamt of first, and often in ‘science fiction’. Stringenly disseminate, study and inspissate our phantasial images.
Artists are removing online digital images from fear of AI interference and exploitation.
The “Tasmanian Tiger”, last proven sighting 1936, Beaumaris Zoo, Hobart.
Maybe we’re not next, but slouching there.

{NOTE for Design dept.: ADD Tas Coat of Arms]

Statement of Purpose. A Word from Mr R. Nold Himself.

Here at bazznold it is hoped that some of my lifetime’s detritus may be securely saved for future generations in the Cyber Wonderland we have all come to love and respect for its permanence and guarantee of Immortality offered by the worldwide web we are all caught and stuck in, awaiting the arrival of the GodSpider we are here to nurture and preserve until such time as there is no longer any Where or Whysomeness in which our droppings can Live Forever. It is to be hoped that all Civilians who visit this Cyber Condaminium will be enlightened and sustained for their “Journey” going forward in cliché-ridden certainty ever deeper into the Mystery as it folds, unfolds, and shifts inexorably onwards to ultimate shapelessness.