So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged and then he scrooged again and scrabbled and scratched and scraped, working busily with his little paws and muttering to himself, 'Up we go! Up we go!' till at last, pop! his snout came out into the sunlight, and he found himself rolling in the warm grass of a great meadow. Something up above was calling him imperiously, and he made for the steep little tunnel which answered in his case to the gravelled carriage-drive owned by animals whose residences are nearer to the sun and air. It was small wonder, then, that he suddenly flung down his brush on the floor, said 'Bother!' and 'O blow!' and also 'Hang spring-cleaning?' and bolted out of the house without even waiting to put on his coat. Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing. First with brooms, then with dusters then on ladders and steps and chairs, with a brush and a pail of whitewash till he had dust in his throat and eyes, and splashes of white-wash all over his black fur, and an aching back and weary arms. THE Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home.
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He uses an implement with two handles and he chucks it into the hole and he enkindles the stone in the hole with his steel hole by hole striking the fire out of the rock which God has put there. “IN THE DAWN there is a man progressing over the plain by means of holes which he is making in the ground. He wears on his head a hat he’s made from leaves and they have dried and cracked in the sun and he looks like a raggedyman wandered from some garden where he’d used to frighten birds.”īlood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West His mounted shadow falls for miles before him. The sun that rises is the color of steel. The hobbled mule stands over him and watches the east for light. The little prairie wolves cry all night and dawn finds him in a grassy draw where he’d gone to hide from the wind. He keeps from off the king’s road for fear of citizenry. 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We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. Much of its activity concerns street fighting with the quasi- fascist Blueshirt movement and he fights Blueshirt fascism on the streets of Cork in 1933–34. The IRA at the time is inclined toward left-wing politics and socialism. Despite his parents being native speakers of the Irish language, it is not until he is interned in the Curragh Camp during World War II that he learns Irish, being taught by fellow internee Máirtín Ó Cadhain, who goes on to lecture at Trinity College, Dublin.Īs a teenager, O’Riordan joins the Irish nationalist youth movement, Fianna Éireann, and then the Irish Republican Army (IRA). 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