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From "A Painful Case":

"He gnawed the rectitude of his life; he felt that he had been outcast from life's feast. One human being had seemed to love him and he had denied her life and happiness: he had sentenced her to ignominy, a death of shame. He knew that the prostrate creatures down by the wall were watching him and wished him gone. No one wanted him; he was outcast from life's feast."

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✅ “Counterparts”

Farrington is such a meat-faced alcoholic scallywag!! gotta respect slipping outta work for a pint of porter then slipping back in and sassing your boss! this story makes you wanna drink in a warm dark irish pub in spite of itself.

i certainly rate this story. mighty sad but mighty alive.

— Jun 13, 2026 08:41AM

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✅ “The Boarding House”
✅ “A Little Cloud”

We’re in the “early marriage” phase of the collection now; the mid-mid-life crisis. Mrs Mooney a sly girl for “marrying” her daughter off like that. Gotta respec the hustle. I liked Little Chandler. I hope he eventually wrote that book and got outta the hood. Or am I supposed to hope he settled down into domesticity? Ignatius Gallaher is just so COOL!

— Jun 11, 2026 06:26PM

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✅ “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.

— Jun 09, 2026 06:33PM

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✅ “Eveline”
✅ “After the Race”

i rank these two lower than the first 3 stories, but they’re still great. Canada gets namedropped in both of them, which is pretty surprising.

— Jun 08, 2026 05:21PM

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✅ “Araby”

I think i’ve read this story about 3 or 4 times now (it’s only 7 pages) and it gets better each time.

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

— Jun 07, 2026 11:26AM

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✅ “The Sisters”
✅ “An Encounter”

Both excellent. “Encounter” especially. Deserves to be read again and again.

— Jun 06, 2026 06:02PM