{"id":3169,"date":"2005-06-16T08:31:33","date_gmt":"2005-06-16T12:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3169"},"modified":"2005-06-16T08:31:33","modified_gmt":"2005-06-16T12:31:33","slug":"i-prepare-myself-for-a-sacrament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3169","title":{"rendered":"“I prepare myself for a sacrament”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philippe Soupault<\/i>:<\/p>\n

Together we went often to the theatre, which, like all good Irishmen, he loved. It was the theatre as theatre that he loved. I mean that he was attracted less by the play than by the atmosphere, the footlights and spotlights, the spectators, the kind of solemnity in a theatre. He preferred opera. When he had decided to go, he was happy as a child. He chose a companion, refused to dine (I prepare myself for a sacrament, he told me, explaining this abstinence), and after the performance he had supper at a restaurant, where he had arranged to have his favorite white wines. At the theatre, seated in the first row — presumably because of his very bad eyesight — he carefully watched the actionn and listened closely to the performers. Only children are as passionately attentive as Joyce was.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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