Bobby describes Station Island

Bobby describes Station Island

Literature--Twentieth Century--Sean O'Faolain--Lough Derg

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

Sean O'Faolain, 1900-1991

The Lovers of the Lake', in The Collected Stories of Sean O'Faolain, Vol. 2, pp. 18-43, here p. 30

Constable and Company, London

1981

Citation for the purposes of criticism

Edited edition

English

Collection of short stories

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“’Jenny, we mustn’t quarrel. We must understand one another. And understand this place. I’m just beginning to. An island. In a remote lake. Among the mountains. Nighttime. No sleep. Hunger. The conditions of the desert. I was right in what I said to you. Can’t you see how the old hermits who used to live here could swim off into a trance in which nothing existed but themselves and their visions? I told you a man can renounce what he calls the Devil, but not the flesh, not the world. They thought, like you, that they could throw away the flesh and the world, but they were using the flesh to achieve one of the rarest experiences in the world! Don’t you see it?’”

Short stories