Myles and myles of rope
There's a great one from the vaults at the Irish Times website today: Myles Na Gopaleen's slanted treatise on capital punishment from 22 May, 1959. Makes you proud to dwell in the Realm of Heremon.
It's a little reminiscent of the hangman's letter from the Cyclops chapter of Ulysses:
Honoured sir i beg to offer my services in the above-mentioned painful case i hanged Joe Gann in Bootle jail on the 12 of February 1900 and i hanged...
... private Arthur Chace for fowl murder of Jessie Tilsit in Pentonville prison and i was assistant when...
... Billington executed the awful murderer Toad Smith...
i have a special nack of putting the noose once in he can't get out hoping to be favoured i remain, honoured sir' my teas is five ginnese.
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