Diary: Jean McGarry, James Joyce’s Christmas Feasting
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The fact that the food and drink take center stage in as short a narrative as James Joyce’s The Dead might strike a reader as rather odd; and yet, oddly, it warms up a story where we know nothing good can happen.
Omg, a perfect Xmas eve morsel! I’ve read the Dead many times & never gave the food itself any thought, just the wonderful words like “squat”—delicious to the ear… And didn’t know Paul Muldoon wrote/staged a play based on this story! Yum🤗
Omg, a perfect Xmas eve morsel! I’ve read the Dead many times & never gave the food itself any thought, just the wonderful words like “squat”—delicious to the ear… And didn’t know Paul Muldoon wrote/staged a play based on this story! Yum🤗
It's been several years since I re-read The Dead, and now I am again sad for poor Michael Fury