Barry Pain

Barry Pain

Summary

Portrait of Barry Pain Barry Pain The Negro of Song (1895)

It is when it comes to the songs that are sung, that the negro annoys me. The lights are always low. May Afric's sunny fountains roll down Greenland's icy mountains, if I can stand such sickening monotony! I would sooner roll down the icy mountains myself, than hear once more that allusion to the defective illumination of the Negro's death-scene. Then there is the Negro's excessive and terrible familiarity with the angels. He thinks he hears the angels calling "Poor Old Joe."
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Portrait of Barry Pain Barry Pain The Negro of Song (1895)

His wife does the cooking, and he sits in a long sweet ecstacy, drinking in the fragrance of food, enjoying food by anticipation, with all his soul sunk in thoughts of food. As he dreams of his coming supper, "every prospect pleases, and only man is vile."
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