‘A few light taps upon th pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to snow again. He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight. The time had come for him to set out on his journey westward. Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every part of the loneley churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.’
Hehe…alright. I’ll stick to the literature then. Here’s mine:
No live organism can continue for long to exist under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed by some to dream…Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm…
Had to edit some out or it would have become too obvious. Care to venture a guess?
I cheated and did a google search, but to save the fun for the other’s I won’t post the answer. I never would have guessed the right answer. As an added hint, though, the movie version of THAT book does NOT star Angelica Huston and HASN’T been made into a musical. Narrows it down a bit, no?
[aside to Zoggie] My favorite line from Psycho I believe is from the same scene as yours, when Marion says, “I think it’s good for a man to have a hobby.” That’s always made me giggle for some reason.[/aside]
I stand corrected. I have to confess, I read The Dead as part of a book of short stories. It’s the only Joyce I’ve ever read.
For those who are interested in this sort of thing, the filmed version of The Dead was the first movie my now-wife and I saw together (before we were even at the hands-holding stage.)
