6/6/2023 0 Comments Ulysses joyceThe adults clearly thought there was some meaning in all of this-but what did plums have to do with Nelson? I found this deeply unsettling because I did not know my father could be like that, that he could joke about something I was sure would get us into big trouble. He and my father started laughing about how they could spit the stones down on the people below. When we got to the top of the pillar, he opened the brown paper bag and gave us each one. Vincent had bought half a dozen plums in a fruit shop. I had never before seen the city from a vantage point so high that you could take in the whole place, the bay to the outlying mountains.īut there was, for me, an edge of unease. One day, when I was 8 years old, my father and his cousin Vincent led me and my brother up the 168 steps that wound through the hollow interior of the monument we Dubliners called Nelson’s Pillar. Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read.
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