I Would Like To Break Out Of

I Attended The Bedside Of A Friend Who Was Dying In A Dublin Hospital. She Lived Her Last Hours In A Public Ward With A Television Blaring Out A Football Match, All But Drowning Our Final Conversation.

This Notion That Americans Have. . . That They Don't Have To Do Anything Other Than Be American In Order To Lead - That's Very Pervasive In The Culture, It Goes Very Deep Into How They See Themselves Here.

I Would Like To Break Out Of This "dark, Brooding" Image, Cause I'm Actually Not Like That At All. In Ireland, Brooding Is A Term We Use For Hens. A Brooding Hen Is Supposed To Lay Eggs. Everytime Somebody Says "he's Dark And Brooding" I Think: "he's About To Lay An Egg".

Every Minute Of Every Day, A Child Under 15 Is Infected With Hiv - The Overwhelming Majority Of Children Under 15 Who Are Hiv-positive Get Infected Through Their Mothers At Birth. Without Treatment, Half Of These Children Die Before They Reach Their Second Birthday.

It's Actually Pretty Complex, Because There's Two Levels Of Reality In The Narrative. One Is What Really Took Place, And The Other Is Spider's Poisoned Version Of What Took Place.