Books · 1965
If you reject family – which a mother holds together – as well as the ties of Church and State, is there anything left for you?
— Anthony Burgess ‧ Here Comes Everybody: An Introduction to James Joyce for the Ordinary Reader
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
A pointed question about what remains once you cast off family, church and state. The speaker treats a mother as the glue of family, and suggests that rejecting all three of these bonds may leave a person with very little to stand on.
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