Except, blast her, she has never done anything to me. There is an underlying sense of rumour, of judgement, of memory, like two peoples that have once committed grave crimes against each other, but in another generation. Relations are friendly but strictly diplomatic. Now we are two foreign countries and we simply have our embassies in the same house. Talking to her in those times made - no, God preserve me from sentimentality. Small matters, that we call sanity, or the cloth that makes sanity. We were the king and queen of coffee in the morning, in the dark of winter, in the early morning sun of summer that came right in our windows, right in, to wake us.
In my own parlance, 'feasting' on her energy, and giving nothing back. And I am sure I gripped her sleeve many a time too many. The main character of Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture is 100-year-old Roseanne McNulty, who has spent more than half of her life in Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital, a. “Whose sleeve do I have to grip, to tell my story to? It used to be Bet.
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