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The George Bernard Shaw Library · Oct 20, 2026 · 41m

In which a discussion of prudence and mortality leads to a technological invitation, abruptly declined for reasons both practical and personal, and an elderly Englishman, garbed in remnants of a bygone era, arrives in a stony Irish landscape where he finds himself bewildered by the strange customs and minds of its ageless inhabitants. He recounts tales of imperial glory and vanished races to a young native named Zoo, whose youthful simplicity and lack of certain familiar sentiments underline the deep temporal chasm and cultural estrangement that shadow his pilgrimage to a once-familiar but…