The Mystery Quote

5/19/2012

'It will last as long as it lasts.

Rose or rock.

A brief morning, or never-ending evening.'

I wrote the above in a notebook many years ago. Does anyone know where I found it? Did I write it myself? I don't think I did (though I do have a chequered past!). Try as I might, I've not been able to attribute it to anyone. Any help here would be greatly appreciated....

2 Comments

Tim Footman link

5/19/2012 12:44:10 pm

It's either you or James Joyce, and he's out of copyright now, so take it before some other bugger does.

Madeleine

6/8/2012 11:59:20 pm

Dear Time, you erudite rapscallion! Do you know, you are so right. Also, I may in fact have written it myself but it just seems too durn poetic for a prosaic wench like wot I am... I've got all these notebooks and hardly a single finished thing in there but I'm saving them for my old age...BTW, I only just now discovered how to reply to comments – gosh, yet another way to have fun and avoid doing any actual work. This here Interwebby doodah is a ferocious gobbler of time. There, that's it, I'm out of here for a while. Cheers and millions of good wishes. M

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Madeleine D’Arcy was born in Ireland and later spent thirteen years in the UK. She worked as a criminal legal aid solicitor and as a legal editor in London before returning to Cork City in 1999 with her husband and son. She began to write fiction in 2005.

Madeleine’s début collection of short fiction, Waiting For The Bullet (Doire Press, 2014) won the Edge Hill Readers’ Choice Prize 2015 (UK).

In 2010 she received a Hennessy X.O Literary Award for First Fiction as well as the overall Hennessy X.O Literary Award for New Irish Writer.

Her work has been short-listed and commended in many other competitions.

Publication credits include: Sunday Tribune; Made in Heaven and Other Short Stories; Sharp Sticks, Driven Nails (Stinging Fly Press); Irish Examiner; Necessary Fiction; Irish Independent; Irish Times; The Penny Dreadful; Long Story Short; Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts; Short Story (University of Texas, Brownsville, Vols 20.2, 21.2); Unbraiding the Short Story (Ed. Maurice A Lee); Surge: New Writing From Ireland (O’Brien Press, 2014) and Quarryman (UCC/Bradshaw Books, 2014), and Headstuff.org (10 July 2015).

New stories are forthcoming in The Elysian Anthology and Edge Hill Press Anthology 2016.

Her work has also featured on RTE Radio programmes Arena and Sunday Miscellany.

Madeleine was a scholarship student on the inaugural MA in Creative Writing in UCC from 2013-2014 and obtained First Class Honours.

A short film of her story ‘Dog Pound’, featuring the distinguished Irish actor Frank Kelly, was premièred at the Hennessy Literary Awards in April 2014 and can be viewed on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSl3orufxqE

She ran Probys Quay Writers’ Workshop from 2009-2011. She has facilitated workshops at West Cork Literary Festival 2014, Doolin Writers’ Weekend 2015 and in Cork City. She is currently writing a novel.

You can contact Madeleine at madeleinedarcy@eircom.net or via Facebook, where her account is Madeleine D’Arcy Lane, and she will get back to you as soon as possible.

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