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  • Tags: religiosity

The story opens as Jenny asks to visit Patrick's purgatory, to the confusion of her male companion Bobby

As they drive towards Lough Derg, Bobby interrogates Jenny as to her motivations for wishing to visit Lough Derg this year of all years. She responds that it is a particularly Irish form of religious devotion and expression.

Bobby expresses his confusion at the extravagant embodied devotion and extreme austerity of the pilgrimage to Lough Derg and that it exposes a side of Jenny that he has never seen before.

Bobby, attempting to make peace with Jenny as she performs the pilgrimage, discusses the power of Station Island
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