Hope's Haven ~ A little taste of Gallia

[Fellow Hoodlum]

Fin sat quietly in his favourite spot, a pint of cool Guinness, and a Black Bush chaser accompanied the dog
eared copies of old Earth literature on the table.
The intricacies of Joyce, Carroll and Hemingway to name a few, had pre-occupied his mind for some considerable
time now. Especially Joyce, the concept of a stream of consciousness was hard to fathom for his tired old
brain, though Joyce's own quote concerning his art summed it up ...

I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over
what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

Finnegan's Wake returned to the table, swapped for the glass of stout. The bar seemed busier these days, in
fact Newcastle itself was starting to come back to life. His own wanderings, when not in Hope's, were just the
odd run out to Dublin, and down to New London, he didn't need the credits after selling his previous ship to that
rather well dressed, and extremely odd terrorist. Never judge a book by it's cover, as they say.
His current little craft was tucked up in it's private hangar, next to the small suite he kept In the Belfast Tower.
Moira looked after everything else he needed, the bar was his home from home, she sent the odd passing
tourists over to be regaled by his legendary, and somewhat imaginative tales of the history of The Mollies.
They bought plenty of food and drinks, spent their credits abundantly on other trinkets , and went away happy
with stories to tell their neighbours at home, of the disreputable rogue from Belfast ... Harmless fun.

"Top of the morning to you me darling Moira, I'll be having me usual if you please, these lovely folks wish to
get a lesson in true Sirius history, and who am I to disappoint ?"

The battered fedora slid a further down his brow ...

"Now are you sitting comfortably? Lets be relating a parable or two for your delectation" ...

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Some say he is a proud member of: "The most paranoid group of people in the Community."