IdleRich
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Spendo Comes to Europe
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My hostel checkin was 9pm no staff afterward so when we started getting into the drink around 10 I said to myself, oh boy where will I be sleeping tonight, and when Luka left Ed kept saying every 15 minutes, as if a brand new thought had just occurred to him, "Hey Gus, would you like to crash at my flat" And I'd say Ed, that would be lovely, I'd appreciate that, and then 15 minutes later, it'd occur to him again, you can see what kind of state I was able to induce in this attempted hazing ritual of theirs, if they were gonna force me to take my medicine they were gonna take it themselves
So we take a bus all the way up to Stoke Newington & every stop I'm hopping off to puke in the street, at some point I can't do it anymore, the on and off, it was OK before but the car-sickness and the drink, too much, I say leave me Ed he says no boy get on, get on the bus. And at last I get up and miraculously climb back aboard. And when we get there, I spy a pizzeria, and this is important context, because I would have handled myself even better if I'd had dinner before the drink, but I hadn't eaten since breakfast, was in art museums all day, nothing to eat cafes so expensive, and empty belly and a dozen drinks I was woozy, and when we spot this joint I say, here it is, my opportunity, and I duck inside, and they say it'll be a few minutes for garlic knots and I go out and I say Edmund, I've already paid but it's just a few quid, let's just leave and he says no Spendo, we'll stay, let's get you some grub, and I feel such gratitude and I pop inside again to collect the meal, and I bring it out to Ed, it's a big portion so we can share, and the street corner's empty 😆 😆😆
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I gave you a review! Mr Energizer Bunny who is great at DJing. I told everyone, Ed, Sufi, the whole board what a great set you put on. You can't possibly want more praise!
IdleRich
IdleRich
Fair enough, that is a good start... but you haven't touched on my winning personality, boyish good looks...
sufi
lala
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There's a good one about him dictating The Wake to Beckett and someone knocking in the door, him telling them to come in and Beckett writing it down, thinking it was part of the book then Joyce leaving it in because he liked it.
There are some funny ones about him and Yeats too,
One day, Joyce stopped Yeats in the street and introduced himself. Yeats had previously been warned about Joyce by George Russell, who wrote: "The first spectre of a new generation has appeared. His name is Joyce. I have suffered from him and I would like you to suffer."
Yeats invited Joyce to a smoking room off O'Connell Street, where he endured one of the greatest put-downs in literary history. Yeats records that Joyce "began to explain all his objections to everything I had ever done; politics, folklore, historical settings of events and so on. Above all, why had I written about ideas? These things were all the signs of the cooling of the iron, of the fading out of inspiration. . . his own little book of poetry owed nothing to anything but his own mind which was much nearer to God than folklore".
woops
is not like other people
drunk people have an excellent homing instinct
sufi
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luka
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ive not been ill no ive just been in a very strange state of irreality and disassociation. and sleeping at strange hours. weed is just really bad for me basically. unfortunately booze is really bad for me too and i was smoking weed becqasue i wasnt drinking. weird few weeks. at the start not even reading literally doing nothing. on the bed everyday smoke, zone out, pass out, wake up, smoke, zone out, pass out, wake up, smoke etc all seemed really pointless even at the time but its hard to stop becasue its the stopping that is uncomfortable and destabilising.