Declan Kiberd’s talk at Notre Dame, the fact that that I do remember, and he said people fetishize the past, in Ireland, the fact that he said the Irish were drunk on remembrance, like Hamlet and the ghost, the fact that I can’t understand people who want to go over and over old times, getting all nostalgic and stuff, the fact that I’m scared of old times, the fact that old times are soggy, saggy cradles of regret, about Mommy or Pepito, or even Pierre, or Dilly, or my bird costume, Phoebe’s Marlboro cigarette packet, going to the movies with Chuck, the fact that I don’t really see why I blot
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