The Dead School by Patrick McCabe

Author:Patrick McCabe [McCabe, Patrick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781447230847
Publisher: Picador

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That night, or rather that morning, in the wee small hours between four and five o’clock, a little baby came floating in the door, in through the parlour, out into the hall, all along the carpet, up the big stairs one by one into the room of Raphael Bell, Raphael Bell and his wife Nessa née Conroy the woman he loved so true, hovered about then floated away and came back again to smile at the Master, give him a great big gummy grin, a lovely slurpy babby smile that would warm the cockles of your heart and then pull its lips right back behind its ears before the blood started to pour and its legs collapsed and its fingers fell off and all the flesh went into clay as the words that came out woke the poor old schoolteacher squealing ‘I’m Maolseachlainn! I’m Maolseachlainn! And you’re my Daddy! Hello, Daddy! Hello, Daddy!’ as bombs blew far away and Daddy cried because all the horses were dead and because he knew that he himself had perished in a lonely field and had gone to his grave to lie cold and alone not for Jesus not for Mary not for Evelyn not for Ireland not for Nessa not for Raphael not for the teeming unborn sons and daughters like constellations of stars that streamed into infinity but for that which young Brennan got for his sums each and every Monday morning, a great big royal duckegg, a bloated circle gawping blindly from a blackboard, a shameful zero. Nothing. Absolutely nothing at all.

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