This is a great piece by poet Peggy O'Brien, detailing a lovely portrait of female friendship, #ElizabethRivers, Harriet O'Donovan Sheehy, #FrankOConnor, #EvieHone, TCD, Cuala Press, and The Letters of Abelard and Heloise. @NewIslandBooks, Writing.ie, https://www.writing.ie/interviews/sidelines-tongues-by-peggy-obrien/ #Art #IrishArt #Books #MastoDaoine #IrishLiterature

> .. the absurdity of using the machine to explain the autonomous processes of organization and growth and reproduction comes out.. in the story #FrankOConnor tells of his mother’s effort to explain to him.. how babies are conceived, without going into embarrassing.. intimacies “mummies had an engine in their tummies and daddies had a starting handle that made it work, and once it started it went on until it made a baby.”.. [A] "natural,’.. mechanical.. ‘objective’ [explanation].
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