The husband/wife conflict within "The Dead", by James Joyce initially derives directly from the Irish church's inability to reconcile desire as sin, and desire as life affirming. It's been suggested that you can't preach so fully the analogy between the union of man and woman with the union of Christ and his church and indeed of man with God without giving a celebratory turn to married love. But this would be inconceivable to the Irish, whose church focuses on the ascetic and the eq
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