…tell you the force with which it will hit oliver hardy. Then there's another point of view which is the reality tunnel of Hugh Kenner, one of the best literary and social critics in the country. In his book the counterfeiters he says the basic plot of…

…speaking world has become more and more functional and rational, whereas English in Ireland is ludic, it's playful, it's a game. Hugh Kenner one of my favorite literary critics he defines an Irish fact as having the plasticity of a rubber inch. An Irish…

…leading literary scholars of our time, I think one of the most brilliant literary scholars of any century professor Hugh Kenner of johns Hopkins University literature department. He's a Canadian. I just thought I'd mention that in passing, because everybody…

…will never catch up with the mythology that's another law of Irish Psychology: the corrections never catch up with the mythology. Kenner met somebody who said he knew the original of Leopold Bloom in Ulysses. We know that there was an original for…

…they passed the bush. He said this is where hunter finally confronted blazes boylan he had a real name for blazes boylan too. Kenner says he actually confronted him. He says yes, he came right around that bush right there. He came right around the bush…

…said: they're so beautiful it's hard to believe they're real. And Eliot said: oh they're real enough. And a literary critic named Hugh Kenner pointed out because Eliot said it we can read it about five different ways because we're so used to ambiguity in…