Someone Soon To Start On A Journey

We Have Really No Absent Friends.

The Irish Landowner, Partly From Laziness But Also From An Indifferent Delicacy, Does Not Interfere In The Lives Of The People Round. Sport And Death Are The Two Great Socializing Factors In Ireland, But These Cannot Operate The Whole Time: On The Whole, The Landowner Leaves His Tenants And Work-people To Make Their Own Mistakes, While He Makes His.

I Became, And Remain, My Characters' Close And Intent Watcher: Their Director, Never. Their Creator I Cannot Feel That I Was, Or Am.

Sport And Death Are The Two Great Socializing Factors In Ireland.

The Silence Of A Shut Park Does Not Sound Like Country Silence: It Is Tense And Confined.