The Various Lives of Keats and Chapman: Including the Brother, by Flann O’Brien
Second paragraph of third joke:

‘I like to sit with my back to the engine,’ he explained.

I had read this as a teenager, which I went through my Flann O'Brien phase, and approached re-reading it with some trepidation; would the Suck Fairy have
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