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Apr 27Liked by Ishmael Wallace

Your singing is beautiful... but the recording cuts off. Maybe at some point you could replace it with the whole thing... unless the problem is here with me for some reason

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Vita, I'm so sorry! The ending is nice; I have just corrected the problem so you can hear it!

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Apr 24Liked by Ishmael Wallace

Have you read Joyce's story "The Dead"? The Lass of Aughrim is an important motif.

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It is such a beautiful story — extraordinarily beautiful. The ending is always in my heart, and his poem on the same theme, “She weeps over Rahoon”.

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Yes. The ending.

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The two worlds of the living and the dead, their meeting when Gretta hears the song, and their absorption in a single image: “Snow is falling all over Ireland, upon the living and the dead” — all this is close to Rilke: “Angels, they say, often don’t know whether they move among the living or the dead. The eternal torrent hurls all ages through both realms forever and drowns out their voices in both”…

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