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  1. Apr 2022
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  3. Mar 2022
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    1. my ingenious home-made typewriter, in perfect order except for two faulty characters, was knocked down for four and tuppence. I

      Dehumanizing a memory by putting a price tag on it, turning it into an object.

    2. t the mel- ancholy task of selling up my little home. Auction followed auction. Priceless books went for a mere song, and invaluable songs, many of them of my own composition, were ruthlessly exchanged for loads of books. Stomach-pumps and stallions went for next to nothing, whilst my ingenious home-made typewriter, in perfect order except for two faulty characters, was knocked down for four and tuppence. I was finally stripped of all my possessions, except for a few old articles of clothing upon which I had waggishly placed an enormous reserve price. I was in some doubt about a dappled dressing-gown of red fustian, bordered with a pleasing grey piping. I finally decided to present it to the Nation. The Nation, however, acting through one of its accredited Sanitary Inspectors, declined the gift—rather churl- ishly I thought—and pleading certain statutory prerogatives, caused the thing to be burnt in a yard off Chatham Street within a stone’s

      This is like dismantling the set of a play. For a person, feels like dissolving the evidence of a life lived.

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    1. ast night he was so curious about it all. It’s very queer, chums, I always think. Now he knows as much about it as they'll ever let him know, and last night he was all in the dark

      Was "last night's" conversation foreshadowing this?

    2. ee the point of me and Noble guarding Belcher and Hawkins at all, for it was my belief that you could have planted that pair down any- where from this to Claregalway and they'd have taken

      He seems to be accompanying them, like showing them "the lay of the land," acclimating them so they feel more comfortable.

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    1. And Connolly® and Pearse

      "I write it out in a verse—" (74) . The fact that he wanted to write their names in a poem, "in a verse" signifies affection and actually writing their names signifies respect and support. He immortalized their names, their importance in the event, and his love for them in this poem.

    2. he stone’s in the midst of all.

      In this whole stanza there is alot of movements portrayed by the horses, the time references, and the imagery as a whole. It gives the impression as if the town was preparing for something. It has a serious and hurried feeling with a hint of change and danger.

  7. Feb 2022
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    1. Why wouldn’t you give him your blessing and he looking round in the door? Isn’t it sorrow enough is on every one in this house without your sending him out with an unlucky word behind him, an

      Superstitious. Which one was the unlucky word?