In Clifden, County Galway
Have arrived Clifden. Bike ride from Leenane, 35 km through wind and driving rain. Seemingly all uphill. All Ireland seems to be uphill. Like the land of M.C. Escher.
Nothing's lost forever. In this world, there's a kind of painful progress, longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead. At least I think that's so. -- from Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Part Two, Perestroika, by Tony Kushner