Claire Keegan

And it's certainly hopeless with regard with regards to having a relationship because you just have to do all kinds of things you don't want to do in order to have a good relationship.

And and he's incapable of doing that because he wants to do only what he wants to do to do and to do as little as possible.

And to not do anything well.

And also, it also means that he's not able to shine because I think when we dig deep and we work well and we go beyond what is comfortable, we find out how we can shine.

Yeah.

Yes, of course.

His mother had served everyone, brought their plates to the table, and they had begun to eat.

When she went to sit down with her own plate, his brother had reached out and quickly pulled the chair from under her, and she had fallen backwards onto the floor.

She must have been sixty, near sixty years of age at that time, as she had married late.

but his father had laughed.

All three of them had laughed heartily and had kept on laughing while she picked the pancakes and the pieces of the broken plate up off the floor."

It's almost like opening a door and looking in but closing it rather than going into the room.

He's just not generous and a lack of generosity seems to ruin everything.

I don't know anybody who's successful who isn't generous.

Yeah.

People, I think, mistake success sometimes for, you know, you take as much as possible and give as little as possible.

And the opposite, in fact, is true.

It is impossible to shine without generosity.

But he also doesn't have the skill, because he grew up in misogynistic Ireland, he also doesn't have the skill to do so, the skills to do so.

Mm.