Status Updates From Ulisse

So we turned into Barney Kiernan’s and there sure enough was the citizen up in the corner having a great confab with himself and that bloody mangy mongrel, Garryowen, and he waiting for what the sky would drop in the way of drink.
—-There he is, says I, in his glory hold, with his cruiskeen lawn and his load of papers, working for the cause.

Well, I’ll put in the work. And for what it’s worth - it is more difficult to get into than any other classic I’ve read, but it’s also interesting. And I have been wanting to read this for 26 years, so.