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Giving this another shot, maybe the audiobook was too boring

✅ “Two Gallants”: Just a couple lads looking for sugar mommies. What’s a sensitive young man gotta do to settle down!

❌Driven and derided by vanity?
✔️ Hustling tarts out of their spare gold coins.

Araby, Eveline and After the Race felt much easier to parse than the first two stories in the collection. After the Race seemed more centered on Ireland’s evolving geopolitical position in the West, so I made more sense of it than those stories concerned with the role of Catholicism and changing cultural attitudes specific to Ireland at the turn of the century. Nevertheless—I will still have to reread everything