Get this.<\/p>\n
Amongst the exhibits in the Dublin Writer’s Museum are not one but two<\/em> hairslides which are stated as having been owned (but not necessarily used by) Mary Levin.<\/p>\n Is that tenuous?<\/p>\n I thought so.<\/p>\n I stood in front of the exhibit for a few moments, screwing with my own head.<\/p>\n What, I wondered, might my left-overs be – when I’m long gone but almost remembered for the ground-breaking work captured by my difficult but brilliant second novel?<\/p>\n A used condom of the brand I once favoured? A box of a a certain brand of veggie sausages? An old, battered, almost-empty tube of KY jelly?<\/p>\n I shook those idle thoughts from my head and moved on to the next exhibit.<\/p>\n It tells me that Jonathan Swift (1667 – 1745) the author of Gulliver’s Travels, made his name as a ‘wit and conversationalist in the London coffee houses along with his friends who included the Irish playwright William Congreve’.<\/p>\n What, I wondered, is the 21st century equivalent of the 17th Century London coffee house?<\/p>\n Thoughts, gang?<\/p>\n B<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Get this. Amongst the exhibits in the Dublin Writer’s Museum are not one but two hairslides which are stated as having been owned (but not<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}