Midwinter Break by Bernard MacLaverty6/10/2023 He struggled and prayed to retain it but each morning that he awoke he realized that he had less of it. By the end of his novitiate it had begun to drain away. It was a long time before the line pulled taut and he felt the pain of the hooks within him and the irony of the fisherman caught. When they had come recruiting to his school - 'for fishers of men' - all those years ago and had offered the glittering lures of sanctity and safety, Michael had jumped selflessly.Michael wondered why it was the tragic things that remained with him most vividly."It's a bad day when the biggest thing you catch is a seagull.".For something that was supposed to make you feel happy.Ī bird's-eye view does not see the truth. "Bitter?" said the barmaid and he nodded."What we run here, Brother, is a finishing school for the sons of the Idle Poor.".The Brothers are sorely in need of it this weather." "Once all the debts are paid there will be very little." "There's not much money - if that's what you mean.".But do you like the methods of the British Government any better?" "Yes," said Brother Sebastian, "but I don't like their methods." Her misery will soon be over and we'll be a united country again." "They are angry men with vision, Brother, and by God their anger is justified."I always say that a man with one language is like a man with one eye.". 2.1 The Great Profundo and Other Stories (1987).
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