That Old Country Music by Kevin Barry

Author:Kevin Barry [Barry, Kevin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2021-01-12T00:00:00+00:00

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The transcription was not yet complete but already I was in a terrible state. I got up from the desk and rolled the blind and looked out to the north Dublin night. Hours had passed by since I sat down to work on the closing verses. The lights of the estates burned coldly in the silence of midnight; beyond were the lights of the airport fields. I thought about ringing Karen and trying to explain what had gone wrong with us earlier in the year. But the prospect of standing there, at fifty-four years of age, with the phone in my hand, husky of voice, passion’s slave—it was too much. Anyway, as the song made clear, we have no agency in our romantic manoeuvres—the decisions are all made for us, without our even knowing. The decisions are out there already, on the air.

And beneath the lights of the city all those people were out there, being born and dying, and steered in their unknowing, all the way from the first moment to the last.

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