I'm not a vegetarian, but I don't eat a lot of meat. I've never eaten a steak, the thought of it makes me cringe. Chicken I can handle, it's a bit of a vice really. Otherwise, I don't mind some sausages in a breakfast context, and maybe a little red meat, but only in lasagna or cannelloni. I'm a bit Italian foodie. I'm sure somewhere down the line, with my tastes in cuine and my semi-sallow skin, I was part Italian Catholic.
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller