Chap Life
A CHAP IN Brendan Kavanagh recounts a tale of survival with suitably Chappish standards during a period of lawful incarceration in a quarantine hotel
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t the time of Dante, what was understood of the ancient texts was that there were stories which began well and ended badly, and these were tragedies. Conversely, those which started badly and ended well were comedies. Dante’s tale of the journey to the Divine was thus a Comedy. Dante himself simply called his poem a Comedy, the Divine title being added later by others. My tale is thus a comedy, embracing the terrestrial rather than the celestial; it is a history, exploring the practical, the ethical and the sensible response to the absurd, a discourse on the role of reason and the individual in society.
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“My fellow inmates and I were asked to fill out a form; one fellow was promptly released with great ceremony as he was evidently undertaking work of great importance. It transpired that he was a vending machine mechanic”
