Brilliant Prose

Hell’s Delights! / James Joyce

Hell’s Delights! / James Joyce

      Bloom and Chris Callinan were on one side and I was with the wife on the other. We started singing glees and duets: Lo, the early beam of the morning. She was well primed with a good load of Delahunt’s port under her bellyband. Every jolt the bloody car gave I had […]

When Appearance Is Not Deceiving / Saul Bellow

When Appearance Is Not Deceiving / Saul Bellow

  For legal purposes, I am that older self, and if a question of my identity were to arise I could do nothing but point to my attributes of yesterday.  I have not tried to bring myself up to date, either from indifference or from fear. Very little about the Joseph of a year ago […]