Joe had been explaining things in the meantime. He said it was again. The beginning of the unfinished, the rediscovery of the familiar, the re-experience of the already suffered, the fresh forgetting of the unremembered. Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular and by nature it is interminable, repetitive and very nearly unbearable'.Flann O'Brien In a Letter to his Editor Feb 14th, 1940