Am I wrong, or today is...

[kasche]

 
 

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<blockquote><div align=justify><dd>'Do you miss him?'</dd>

<dd>Doyler sighed, and with that breath spilt all the tide of his loneliness and fears. 'I miss him, aye,' he said. 'He was pal o' me heart, so he was. I try not to think of him, only I can't get him off my mind. He's with me always day and night. I do see him places he's never been, in the middle of a crowd I see him. His face looks out from the top of a tram, a schoolboy wouldn't pass but I'm thinking of him. I try to make him go away, for I'm a soldier now and I'm under orders. But he's always there and I'm desperate to hold him. I doubt I'm a man except he's by me.'</dd>


<dd><i>Jamie O'Neill, "At Swim Two Boys", page 498</i></dd></blockquote></div>



I know I chose a passage where Doyler is the one who does the speaking and all, but that's the first that came to mind and, strangely, I found it fitting. What's better than look at someone through the eyes of those who love them, after all? The book falls open on that page on its own anyway, by now. And well, I couldn't really write down the whole pages 504, 505, 506... and yes, I'm writing down the numbers because then, to know what I'm talking about, you'll have to look them down on the book and you'll end up rereading them again. Well, there are worse ways of being evil than this.


<font size="-2">What is very, very wrong is that I don't know if there is a Doyler Doyle's day, which there should be, and that I don't know when it is, if there is one.

ETA: Wow! I know I'm a lucky gal, but I hadn't seen this coming. I'm one of the free users on DevArt who've been sorted and gifted with a free week as subscriber. I have to find out which are all the facilities for subscribers, now, then...</font></lj-cut>

Comments

[thieving-gypsy.livejournal.com]

OH, that book...

<3

[kasche.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah.

[spacedye-vest.livejournal.com]

Awwww I think it only makes sense to celebrate Jim Mack with Doyler's words about him *sniffs*

I doubt I'm a man except he's by me
That's beautiful, it always makes me cry.

The only other bit of the book that would have made Jim Mack's justice would be the one about his smile... when Doyler is having dinner with the Macks. That is the sweetest thing ever written.

I don't know if there's a Doyler's Day either :( We should ask Liz, if anyone knows it's her.

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Hope your enjoy your free-week subscription *mwah*

[mrsronweasley.livejournal.com]

We should ask Liz, if anyone knows it's her.

Haha. ;) Actually, I don't. I don't even know MacEmm's birthday! The shame. Should we ask? :P

And yes to everything else you wrote. That smile! Oh, it gets me in the gut every time. When I'm done with this whole exam silliness, I'm rereading that book. It's been too long. Much too long.

*lots of love*

[kasche.livejournal.com]

We should ask indeed. :D *hint hint*

And really, MacEmm is someone else you deserves to be celebrated indeed.

*loves*

[kasche.livejournal.com]

I loved that part. (Obviously enough, I guess. :P) And oh, how I love the smile part, too! You can't help smiling as well. :D I should reread the whole book at least once, anyway. I'm always picking up either this part or that...

*mwah!*

[mrsronweasley.livejournal.com]

It's sad, but I've actually been waiting for this day. >.<

That passage kills me. But that's sort of obvious...

HAPPY BIRHDAY to our boy!.. Ahhhh...Jim.

MWAH!

[kasche.livejournal.com]

But the fact that you were not the only one makes it all better. :D

MWAH!

[monophobia.livejournal.com]

Noooo quoting the book and making me want to read it just after I lent it out to a friend!! ;o; *kicks!*

[jadis31.livejournal.com]

I promised myself that there would be no fiction this year. That I am going to make myself read more non-fiction by denying myself the goodness of escapism... I think I just gave up on that. Just this minute. I am going to reread At Swim. I just have to. I miss my boys.

My lord, but I am pathetic.

[monophobia.livejournal.com]

It could've really happened. *waggles eyebrows*

[kasche.livejournal.com]

Barbara's right, you know. It could have happened. :P

You're not pathetic, you're just in love with two wonderful boys and a wonderful man! You're not even alone in that, that has to count for something. :D

[kasche.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... you can always go and see said friend, and while you're there, reread the book. :P

*squeezes*

[monophobia.livejournal.com]

But you see.. I lent it to her to read on a flight to England. ;o;

[kasche.livejournal.com]

Er. That might be a problem. :D A library, then? :P

[monophobia.livejournal.com]

My card expired months ago, and I ain't paying the $12 to renew it.. I'll just reread Harry Potter and Poppy Z Brite books and things should be fine. XD