“Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.”
There are certain texts read at school that seldom do you find yourself picking up again, until years have passed and the eyes with which you view the world are no longer the same. Such is the case for me, Joyce’s ‘Dubliners’, and the story that comes before its close.
(Spoilers within.)
Matilda Dancing 