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In country places a single word is inflected to mean a hundred things, so that only a recording of the sounds gives an idea of the speech of these people.

— Patrick Kavanagh Tarry Flynn (1948)

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I loved too much and by such and such is happiness thrown away.

'Begod there's a powerful piece of turnips'

Tarry Flynn (1948)

With women in general he was truthful and sincere and would talk philosophy or Canon Law (Canon Law fascinated him, though what he knew of the subject was utter nonsense) to them on the slightest provocation. Women cannot understand honesty in a man.

Tarry Flynn (1948)

I do not know what age I am,
I am no mortal age;
I know nothing of women,
Nothing of cities,
I cannot die
Unless I walk outside these whitethorn hedges.

The headlands and the hedges were so fresh and wonderful, so gay with the dawn of the world. Tarry never tired looking at these ordinary things as he tired of the Mass and of religion. In a dim way he felt that he was not a Christian. In the god of Poetry he found a God more important to him than Christ. His god had never accepted Christ.

Tarry Flynn (1948)

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