Green Hell
“. .”
Pause.
“How?”
One of the rare to rarest times I was with Jack and not in a pub was over coffee in McCambridge’s. Black for Jack and decaf latte for me, earning me full derision. He said, “What’s the friggin point? Without caffeine, it’s like Mass without Communion; there’s no hit.”
I had no answer. My iPad was before me, the famous photo of Beckett as my screen saver. His face almost as lined and ruined as Jack’s. I asked, “You read Beckett?”
Gave me a long look, then, ...“If I say no, you’ll write me off as pig ignorant, so let me assume a literary mask and say, ‘I don’t read him, I savor him.’”
I nearly smiled, he said, “Ol’ Sam was a Bushmills guy.”
When I didn’t rise to whatever bait he was trolling, he continued, “See, Catholics are the Jameson guys. Bushmills is for the other crowd.”MoreLess
Pause.
“How?”
One of the rare to rarest times I was with Jack and not in a pub was over coffee in McCambridge’s. Black for Jack and decaf latte for me, earning me full derision. He said, “What’s the friggin point? Without caffeine, it’s like Mass without Communion; there’s no hit.”
I had no answer. My iPad was before me, the famous photo of Beckett as my screen saver. His face almost as lined and ruined as Jack’s. I asked, “You read Beckett?”
Gave me a long look, then, ...“If I say no, you’ll write me off as pig ignorant, so let me assume a literary mask and say, ‘I don’t read him, I savor him.’”
I nearly smiled, he said, “Ol’ Sam was a Bushmills guy.”
When I didn’t rise to whatever bait he was trolling, he continued, “See, Catholics are the Jameson guys. Bushmills is for the other crowd.”MoreLess
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