Status Updates From Dubliners

"Dublin is such a small city: everyone knows everyone else's business."

- "The Boarding House"

I started annotating too late. A Little Cloud took me hours of scrutiny to get through, but in spite of its density and complexity I feel like I *get* it. It was a triumph and I only regret not paying such careful attention to the first seven stories in the collection. I will go back over them carefully once I finish the rest of the collection.