![]() ![]() ![]() After Absolon promises to do so, she opens the window saying “All right, one quick kiss before the neighbours notice”. “If I give you one kiss, will you go away and stop pestering me?”, asks Alison. Allison tells him rather rudely that she loves another and he should go away. The bedroom is on the ground floor, so the window is level with his breast. Then, with a leave of true-love in his mouth for good luck he goes to Allison’s house and starts to beg her to let him in. That’s my chance!” So early in the morning before the sunrise he dresses himself neatly, combs his hair and chews grains of paradise (guinea pepper) and liquorice, the medieval equivalents of Tic Tacs, to make his breath sweet. Absolon thinks: “I haven’t seen the carpenter at his home in Oxford, it means he must have really gone to fetch wood, which in turn means Allison is tonight alone. ![]() “No, I haven’t seen him all day”, answers the friar, “he may have gone home or to the grange for wood, the prior often sends him there”. Meantime, Absolon happened to spend Monday at the place called Osney near Oxford and he asked one of the friars whether the carpenter worked for them today. Nicholas and Allison go on their tiptoes out from the attic to the bedroom, where they make love until morning. ![]() James Joyce – “Ulyss… on James Joyce – “Ulysses” (“Lest… James Joyce – “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” (ctd.)Ĭonsider sunk costs… on Rudyard Kipling –…Ĭonsidering Sunk Cos… on Rudyard Kipling –…. ![]()
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