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“Araby” about a boy who attends a bazaar of the same name to buy a gift for a girl he has a crush on…it does not go as planned.

“Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.”

Act III complete.

“O, now, forever / Farewell the tranquil mind! Farewell content!
Farewell the plumèd troops and the big wars
That makes ambition virtue! O, farewell!
Farewell the . . . royal banner, and all quality,
Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!
And O you mortal engines, whose rude throats Th’ immortal Jove’s dread clamors counterfeit, Farewell! Othello’s occupation’s gone!”

Inferno, Canto XXX complete.

Act II complete.

“Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have / lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of / myself, and what remains is bestial.”

“—Come along. I knew Fatty’d funk it.”

“An Encounter,” a story of two boys playing hooky and encountering a strange man.

Inferno, Canto XXIX complete.

Introduction and “The Sisters” complete.

My first encounter with Joyce. It’s a curious short story about a boy finding out his priest has passed away, but something seems amiss…

Inferno, Canto XXVIII complete.

Act I complete.

Inferno, Canto XXVII complete.

Book XIV complete!

Inferno, Canto XXVI complete.

Book XIV complete!

Inferno, Canto XXV complete.

Book XIII complete.

Act IV complete.

Inferno, Canto XXIV complete.

Book XIII complete.

“He saw Scylla and was inflamed with love, / And he said whatever he thought might keep her / From running away. She ran anyway.”

Easily my favorite book thus far.

Act III complete.

Inferno, Canto XXIII complete.

Act II complete.