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...three months' stay with Picasso, Duncan borrows one of the artist's most exultant shouts, says wholeheartedly: "Es una cosa muy rara! [It's something very rare...
...dropped from airplanes, while his mother explains that "mummies had an engine in their tummies and daddies had a starting handle that made it work, and once it started it went on until it made a baby." But his schoolmates convinced Larry that his mother is all wrong. Una Dwyer giggles that everyone knows babies are bought from Nurse Daly, and one boy asserts that he himself floated down "on a snowflake, wearing a bright blue dress...
...Mozart. It was played with care and restraint, except perhaps in the pedalling, which seemed excessive. The piano, poor in tone and tune, may have been the cause of occasional blurs, especially in the lower register. Certain of Mozart's dynamic indications were given too extreme an interpretation. Una corda should probably be more sparingly used in Mozart, and Beethoven. Here again, some inadequacy in the piano itself may have been responsible...
...grey circumstance of Belfast itself, where the Catholic Irish tread with resentful circumspection amid the Protestant majority, compose the theater for Dev's tragedy. He is more vulnerable to scandal than an English princess when Cuff's young niece arrives from Dublin. Soon there is talk about Una and Dev. Love leads him to desperate measures: he buys a Tattersall waistcoat and takes dancing lessons. One awful night the high-spirited Una finds the answer to the question: "Where can we go on Sunday in Belfast?" She goes with Dev to his basement flat, and in a seduction...
...fornicator.'' Soon, the school knows, and the writing is on the jakes wall for Dev. Yet-most horrible touch of all-Dev is forgiven, and it is put about that "nothing" has happened. "If it wasn't so pitiful, it would be funny," says Una in an exact summary of the book itself. It is Dev's tragedy to remain a man among boys and a boy among...