Easterlys Quotes

“No...I knew a Martin.

And was he wiley?

If there was one thing he wasn't was wiley, John.

Oh?

Poor Martin was an inordinately stupid man. He could barely tie his shoelaces.

A ha'penny short?

Ah listen. Martin kept animals had more wile in them.

What kind of animals?

He'd sheep. A few cattle, I suppose. Though they'd have been wind-bothered up that way.

They'd have been...

Bothered, John. By the wind coming in. The way it would unseat cattle.

Unseat them?

Cornelius lowers his sad eyes -

In the mind.

You mean you'd have a cow'd take a turn?

Cornelius squares his jaw.

Do you realise you're looking at a man who's seen a cow step in front of a moving vehicle? Purposefully.

On account of?

Wind coming easterly. That's the kind of thing that can leave a beast beyond despair. Because of the pure evil sound of it, John. The way it would play across the country in an ominous way. An easterly? If it was to come across you for a fortnight and it might? Sleep gone out the window and a horrible black feeling racing through your fucken blood. Day and night. All sorts of thoughts of death and hopelessness. This is what you'd get on the tail end of an easterly wind. Man nor animal wouldn't be right after it.”
― Kevin Barry, Beatlebone