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“Counterparts” an uncomfortable story of an alcoholic struggling in all aspects of his life.

Purgatorio, Canto II complete.

Act II complete.

What dost thou know me for?

A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking, glassgazing, superserviceable, finical rogue; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch.

“A Little Cloud” a man’s meeting with an old friend makes him reflect on his own choices.

“Could he write something original? He was not sure what idea he wished to express but the thought that a poetic moment had touched him took life within him like an infant hope. He stepped onward bravely.”

Act I complete.

“Be Kent unmannerly
When Lear is mad. What wouldst thou do, old man?
Think’st thou that duty shall have dread to speak
When power to flattery bows? To plainness honor’s
bound
When majesty falls to folly. Reserve thy state,
And in thy best consideration check
This hideous rashness.”

Purgatorio, Canto I complete.

“The Boarding House” or the moment before a resolution to an indiscretion.

Inferno, Canto XXXIV complete. This completes the journey to Hell. On to Purgatory!

“Two Gallants”

All I can say is everyone takes the biscuit.

Inferno, Canto XXXIII complete.

“After the Race,” about a group of men going out to celebrate a successful car race.

“What excitement! Jimmy was excited too; he would lose, of course. How much had he written away?”

Inferno, Canto XXXII complete.

“Eveline” a story about a woman plotting to run away to faraway lands with her lover.

Act IV complete.

Inferno, Canto XXXI complete.

“Araby” about a boy who attends a bazaar of the same name to buy a gift for a girl he has a crush on…it does not go as planned.

“Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.”

Act III complete.

“O, now, forever / Farewell the tranquil mind! Farewell content!
Farewell the plumèd troops and the big wars
That makes ambition virtue! O, farewell!
Farewell the . . . royal banner, and all quality,
Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!
And O you mortal engines, whose rude throats Th’ immortal Jove’s dread clamors counterfeit, Farewell! Othello’s occupation’s gone!”

Inferno, Canto XXX complete.

Act II complete.

“Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have / lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of / myself, and what remains is bestial.”