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        At Swim-Two-Birds


        setting

        Ireland

        time

        1930s

        language

        English

        region

        Western Europe

        year published

        1939

        page count

        224

        difficulty

        Advanced

        main characters

        Unnamed narrator

        Rip's impressions

        Reserved for Guest Editor

        first line

        Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression. I reflected on the subject of my spare-time literary activities. One beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with.

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