Word: lavan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...LAVAN...
Meanwhile Detective Lavan has discovered incriminating evidence against Ferriter, gives him a grilling. Ferriter promises to produce the real murderer before midnight. He tries to confess to a priest; to his horror finds that he, the jealous lover-murderer, no longer believes in God. He rushes to the slums to drink, confess to harlots. In a scene reminiscent of Dante's Inferno, Joyce's Ulysses, he confesses himself to one of three diseased harpies who play with his disintegrating personality the way vultures play with bones...