[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Dedalus, a young teacher, doesn't mope about drinking - he does drink, all day, til he is so wasted he has a hallucination about his recently dead mother whom he feels guilt over for his treatment of her as she was dying, and he smashes a chandelier then gets punched out by an English soldier.

You say he does not mope about drinking and then say he drinks and mopes.

I admit I left out the part about his destroying other people's property (because of the moping and drinking) but I still covered the book in one sentence.

I left out the fact that they are all going to die with various STDs as well. It did not seem extremely relevant.

[ifinnegan]

“ You say he does not mope about drinking and then say he drinks and mopes.”

I didn’t say he mopes. He does pretty much the opposite of moping.