An unnamed narrator holds forth in Barney Kiernan's pub

Today's passage · lines 12.1–150

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A new, unnamed narrator — a debt collector with a grudge against everyone — takes over the telling, launching straight into gossip and complaint as he heads into Barney Kiernan's pub. …

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