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Original Essays | October 14, 2009

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Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife by Sam Savage
Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife

greatferm, April 30, 2009

The Jesuit rat. Poverty, chastity and scholarship.

I love the metphor, of life as the pursuit of the 13th tit. Yesssss !

And James Joyce cannot be read, better for nesting, or eating...

And wherever you are, if you stay there, things will run down. If I had stayed in my home town, Dwindle City, Ohio, that would be ever so clear.

And it reminds me of Orwell's "Down and Out in Paris and London". Except that was merely a man.
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