“He felt his moral nature falling to pieces.”

–James Joyce, “A Painful Case”

Man, I hate it when that happens! …”APC” is the first story in Dubliners so far that has been just horribly written. No humor, just the lowing of a sad, self-pitying cow. I’m enjoying the next story, “Ivy Day in the Committee Room,” much better: Nothing has happened, but at least we are getting strong dialogue and basic descriptions of persons, places, and things.