One character in this short story calls another a "Rosicrucian" while explaining his views on children's physical education, and is deemed a "tiresome old red-nosed imbecile" by the narrator. The narrator of this short story says that a certain word reminds him of "the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism", and gets annoyed when Old Cotter refers to him as a child. At its end, one of the title characters recounts an anecdote in which O'Rourke discovers a man laughing to himself in a confession box. Those title characters serve the narrator crackers and sherry while discussing their recently deceased family member, who had a mental breakdown after accidentally breaking a chalice. The narrator repeats the word "paralysis" to himself after hi
One character in this short story calls another a "Rosicrucian" while explaining his views on children's physical education, and is deemed a "tiresome old red-nosed imbecile" by the narrator. The narrator of this short story says that a certain word reminds him of "the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism", and gets annoyed when Old Cotter refers to him as a child. At its end, one of the title characters recounts an anecdote in which O'Rourke discovers a man laughing to himself in a confession box. Those title characters serve the narrator crackers and sherry while discussing their recently deceased family member, who had a mental breakdown after accidentally breaking a chalice. The narrator repeats the word "paralysis" to himself after his mentor, Father Flynn, dies of a stroke. For 10 points, name this first story in James Joyce's Dubliners.