Bloody Fool/ James Joyce

And off with him and out trying to walk straight. Boosed at five o’clock. Night he was near being lagged only Paddy Leonard knew the bobby, 14A. Blind to the world up in a shebeen in Bride street after closing time, fornicating with two shawls and a bully on guard, drinking porter out of teacups. […]

Cowardice/ Ernest Hemingway

Cowardice/ Ernest Hemingway

  There couldn’t have been so much fear, had made a cobarde out of the other one the way second generation bullfighters almost always are? Suppose that? And maybe the good juice only came through straight again after passing through that one? I’ll never forget how sick it made me the first time I knew he was […]