Using the bartender's information, Precht and the group headed to Magnolia Town, the apparent location of Blue Skull's headquarters. On the journey, the treasure hunters and girls bonded, with Precht even expressing his willingness to give up on the Tenrou Jade as he had lost interest in ...
— Irishtown, Martin Cunningham said. Ringsend. Brunswick street.Mr Dedalus nodded, looking out." (U6.33) "— That's a fine old custom, he said. I am glad to see it has not died out.All watched awhile through their windows caps and hats lifted by passers. Respect. The carriage ...
The god was probably originally imagined present collecting the souls of the battlefield dead, though he was later depicted as a defender of the town.Homer, Iliad 5. 382 ff (trans. Lattimore) (Greek epic C8th B.C.) : "[Dione consoles her daughter Aphrodite after the goddess is wounded ...
In Greece, cult images of Hades appeared in a handful of temples, but he had almost no temples of his own. Perhaps his most important sacred site was the “Oracle of the Dead” in the northern Greek town of Thesprotia, said to be near one of the entrances to the Underworld. Here,...
How are all in Cork’s own town? —I was down there for the Cork park races on Easter Monday, Ned Lambert said. Same old six and eightpence. Stopped with Dick Tivy. —And how is Dick, the solid man? —Nothing between himself and heaven, Ned Lambert answered. —By the holy Paul!
My life feels like this poem – haunted. In any given moment, I’m here, solid and present, but I’m also living so many other moments, ghosts stacked upon ghosts. We live in this neighborhood, this town, and because it’s been 25 years, I can tell you the layers of any given ...