Thursday, 7 December 2017 (10.256)

The reading group has started episode 10 and stopped at:

          — There, sir. 

                    (Wandering Rocks U10.256)

(end of the 3rd section, the next beginning “Katey and Boody”)

Catherine Meyer sends a painting that captures both scene and mood from the opening episode. She writes:

My watercolour shows Father Conmee walking and reading in his breviary. “His thinsocked ankles were tickled by the stubble of Clongows field” (10.185). The sky shows him a flock of small white clouds carried slowly down by the wind. “Moutonner, the French said” (10.182). I made a sketch with charcoal and coloured it with French ultramarine, burnt ochre and a little bit white gouache for the clouds. 

You may see Father Conmee’s thoughts about “that tyrannous incontinence, needed however for man’s race on earth, and of the ways of God which were not our ways” in the clouds (10.171).

Catherine Meyer © Zürich 2017