Excuse my french, but then wordpress ate my post so frankly the apology is undeserved.
So here’s the summary
- Bad day (broken shoulder blade via obscure sleeping position)
- Survive hellish town-post-work-on-late-night-shopping-day
- Habit of observing people on public transport, especially readers of great books
- Today’s subject: young student, smelly but reading John McGahern so forgiven for lack of control of various bodily functions
- Various attempts to ascertain which of great author’s works he is reading
- Young Reader decides to adjust himself
- Author of this blog finds male ‘adjustments’ of this public nature offensive anyway
- Special case: Young Reader has hands inside trousers
- In a public place
- On a crowded Luas
- Young Reader adds insult to injury: by ‘wiping’ the offending hand on the pole other commuters were using to ’steady themselves’
- Whole other kind of ’steadying’ required given the actions of Young Reader
- Title of book eventually ascertained - was The Pornographer
