A day with Ishiguro, Morrison, Dickens, and Joyce

My day: first Kazuo Ishiguro's "Never Let Me Go" (2005), "My name is Kathy H"; then, Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye" (1970), "The pieces of Cholly’s life could become coherent only in the head of a musician"; then Charles Dickens's "Hard Times" (1854), "Mrs. Sparsit saw him detain her with his encircling arm, and heard him then and there, within her (Mrs. Sparsit’s) greedy hearing, tell her how he loved her, and how she was the stake for which he ardently desired to play away all that he had in life"; and then James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake" (1939): "What Barbaras Done to a Barrel Organ Before the Rank, Tank and Bonnbtail." (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 19 March 2025)