I am forced to stop at a lay-by near Athlone, where I spend 10 minutes bent over the bonnet of my Toyota
I was getting petrol in a filling station just outside Cork on my way home to Leitrim. It was early so I decided to risk a small breakfast, even though the sausages looked like they had been cooked the previous night. And the black pudding crumbled like cement in my mouth.
“I’ve only two hands,” is a phrase my mother used to mutter several times a day as she wrestled with dirty dishes in the kitchen. I would wonder why she pointed this out so often. After all, I knew she had only two hands. It was clear from the time I began to count that she had only two hands and that in fact she had two of many things: two eyes, two legs, two nostrils and two ears. It must be a rule of the universe, I concluded, that so many things were paired.
Laura devoured her full Irish breakfast, including a juicy black pudding that I admired from a distance.“Go on,” I said, listening to her as if she were a character in a García Márquez novel. “So Tom went out and bought canary food,” Laura continued. “And he went around to neighbours’ houses inquiring if anyone had lost a canary but with no luck.”
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