Word: unreality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conversation was unreal...
Although the bed-and-beard similarities are inescapable, Run with the Devil is a more ambitious and professional undertaking than Greenwich Village Story. But perhaps to Romans it seems just as silly and unreal...
Cambridge is quite a change from Dublin, where the professor has lectured approximately ten hours a week for about nine years (with a three-year interval in the "unreal, Kafka-like prison of the Irish Civil Service"). So far, the vitality and the variety to be found in Cambridge appeal to Donoghue, although he would not like to settle permanently amidst the clamor of urban life. He feels that "the range of conversation" and the "multiplicity of viewpoints" here are "wider than at any other European university." He finds the faculty also very "lively and flexible in their viewpoints...
...veils of mist. In that weird, wet Atlantic light-or so they say-the swarthy chieftains and pale queens who once ruled the five kingdoms of Celtic Ireland still clatter across country. As the island's endless sleight-of-sky creates and dissolves horizons, the landscape seems dreamily unreal. The reality of Ireland is special: it lies on a border region where tragedy and laughter, jollity and gloom, hell and the happy isles converge-and as such it may reflect human existence more truly than what usually passes for realism...
...make any one of them actual, the rest must more or less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully, and pick out the one on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereup-on become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failures are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs, carrying shame and gladness with them...