Freedom and Confinement

I'd like to start of this week's blog with a couple of lines out of "Guests of the Nation." "Nobel says he saw everything ten times the size, as though there were nothing in the whole world but that little patch of bog with the two Englishmen stiffening into it, but with me it was as if the patch of bog where the Englishmen were was a million miles away, and even Nobel and the old woman, mumbling behind me, and the birds and the bloody stars were all far away, and I was somehow very small and very lost and lonely like a child astray in the snow.  And anything that happened to me afterwards. I never felt the same about again," states the narrator.  This ending somehow struck out to me, and just made me think how deep words can go when spoken with that much emotion. "And anything that happened to me afterwords.  I never felt the same about again," is such a passionate, complex line, for the story changes him in such away that it takes a bit of his soul with it.  He will never be the same after what he has witnessed tonight, and that just shows the intensity of the situation. It has to be a dramatic, impacting even for something to change you in such a way that you know in your mind you can never fully recover to your old self.  Therefore, O'Connor has put together a good story, but what really caught my eye was the last 2 sentences!