Under the Eye of the Clock: A MemoirArcade Publishing, 2000 - 163 pages Oxygen-deprived for two hours at birth, Christopher Nolan lived to write, at age twenty-one, the autobiography of his childhood, told as the story of Joseph Meehan. He wrote the book, using a "unicorn stick" attached to his head, letter by painful letter. The result is astonishingly lyrical, filled with powerful description, touching moments of triumph and humiliation, and, above all, disarming wit. It is, in the words of London's Daily Express, "a book of sheer wonder". |
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Contents
A Modicum of Aloe | 1 |
Hell Guffawed | 2 |
White Sheets of Life | 25 |
The Stirring of the Muse | 35 |
The EightLegged Pony | 43 |
Knife Used | 50 |
The Night That Was In It | 60 |
An Eyeful of Derravaragh | 68 |
Slavery was Abolished | 103 |
The Cool Green Garden | 106 |
head the ball | 114 |
Is The Sound of Footsteps | 123 |
A Dream Being Shattered | 132 |
Kernelled Loneliness | 142 |
Academics Thesaurus of Thoughts | 149 |
His Human Wasteland | 156 |
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