Time Present And Time Past (2014)
“Joan is one of those people who drain energy from those around them. She does this to such a degree that sometimes, when he is with her, Fintan feels that he is caught up in a science fiction story, and that his mother is an alien masquerading as an elderly Dublin woman, who siphons off energy to convert it into – what? Inert gases? An alternative fuel? Some kind of anti-matter? Fintan has no idea. All he knows is that he habitually leaves her company feeling so depleted that he thinks he might... have to lie down on the pavement, outside the apartment block where she lives, until he has recovered. So unpleasant an experience is this that he avoids visiting her until the guilt provoked by staying away (‘Maybe you’ve forgotten where I live?’) begins to outweigh the misery of actually going there.
And so this Saturday afternoon finds him on the DART, that is, the suburban train that sweeps around Dublin Bay from Howth in the north, to Glenageary in the south, where Joan lives, and beyond.MoreLess
And so this Saturday afternoon finds him on the DART, that is, the suburban train that sweeps around Dublin Bay from Howth in the north, to Glenageary in the south, where Joan lives, and beyond.MoreLess
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