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“An Encounter”
I remember this story! Two of three boys play truant from school, the third one flakes out, and they have an unfulfilling adventure that eventually puts them in the path of a creepy old man who does something that the narrator desperately does not look at. It seems like such an amusing little vignette at first, with Joyce talking about playing Indians and reading adventure pulps.
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I remember this story! Two of three boys play truant from school, the third one flakes out, and they have an unfulfilling adventure that eventually puts them in the path of a creepy old man who does something that the narrator desperately does not look at. It seems like such an amusing little vignette at first, with Joyce talking about playing Indians and reading adventure pulps.
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“The Sisters”
A man reflects on the time when Father Flynn, a major sympathetic in the life of his young self, died. There are a lot of jabs at the Catholicism that Joyce resented, from the excellently timed “God have mercy on his soul” to the notion that Flynn’s faith precipitated a nervous breakdown that permanently affected his health, leading to his decline and death,
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A man reflects on the time when Father Flynn, a major sympathetic in the life of his young self, died. There are a lot of jabs at the Catholicism that Joyce resented, from the excellently timed “God have mercy on his soul” to the notion that Flynn’s faith precipitated a nervous breakdown that permanently affected his health, leading to his decline and death,
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When I was in high school, we went to a musical that was based on the last story in this collection, “The Dead”. I enjoyed it, but I didn’t have the faintest clue who Joyce was. I recognized it when we were assigned Dubliners as part of a college class on The Short Story, but I know that back then I read barely more than I needed to to get by. I’m not happy about then, but I’m reading it now.
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The old man is a bizarre portent, wrapped up in classical works of Irish literature, possessing the green eyes that the narrator is looking for, and having a barely inhibited conversation about sexuality and punishment.
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