This story begins by describing “Indian battles” with Joe Dillon and his fat younger brother Leo. For 10 points each:
[10h] Give this story in which a boy and his friend Mahony ditch school to visit the Pigeon House. They meet a man in this story who goes on a rant about “little sweethearts” and whipping boys after it is implied that he masturbates.
ANSWER: “An Encounter”
[10m] “An Encounter” appears after “The Sisters” in this collection of fifteen stories arranged from young to old protagonists. In another story in this collection, the narrator is unable to buy Mangan’s sister a gift at the title location.
ANSWER: Dubliners (The unnamed story is “Araby.”)
[10e] Dubliners was an early work by this author of Finnegans Wake.
ANSWER: James Joyce [or James Augustine Aloysius Joyce]
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