Bobby expresses his confusion
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Title
Bobby expresses his confusion
Subject
Literature--Twentieth Century--Sean O'Faolain--Lough Derg
Description
Bobby expresses his confusion at the extravagant embodied devotion and extreme austerity of the pilgrimage to Lough Derg and that it exposes a side of Jenny that he has never seen before.
Creator
Sean O'Faolain, 1900-1991
Source
The Lovers of the Lake', in The Collected Stories of Sean O'Faolain, Vol. 2, pp. 18-43, here p. 22-23
Publisher
Constable and Company, London
Date
1981
Rights
Citation for the purposes of criticism
Format
Edited edition
Language
English
Type
Collection of short stories
Identifier
DD_0235
Coverage
54.616218, -7.876212
Text Item Type Metadata
Text
“’Poor Jenny! I wish you’d talked like this to me before. It is, after all, as you say, your own affair. But what I can’t get over is that this thing you’re doing is so utterly extravagant. To go off to an island, in the middle of a lake, in the mountains, with a lot of Crawthumpers of every age and sex, and no sex, and peel off your stockings and your shoes, and go limping about on your bare feet on a lot of sharp stones, and kneel in the mud, psalming and beating your breast like a criminal, and drink nothing for three days but salt water…it’s not like you. It’s a side of you I’ve never known before. The only possible explanation for it must be that something is happening in you that I’ve never seen happen before.’”
Original Format
Short stories