Word: dundalk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dreamlike Vision. Desmond yammers and rants his life story from within a railway carriage that shuttles between Dundalk and Dublin. He is queer for trains, and, as the scenes seen from the windows unfold and blur into episodes from his raffish life, it is clear that he is queer about a lot of other things, too-notably small steamboats, chaffinches, a girl called Yvette, and an uncle with the improbable name of Melchizedek. Desmond begins his maniacally brilliant reveries after a gaseous bout at the dentist's, where he acquires new crockery, i.e., false teeth, and a desire...