A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Chapter 5 Part 1

In which a young man, caught between the loathsome domesticities and clogged lanes of a sodden cityscape, walks its sodden streets reflecting on ashes of learning and entwined friendships under the greying light of morning; and in the shadowed theatre of a university, he engages with the austere austerity of a dean, the bustling pulse of student life, and the stirrings of uneasy discourse about art, faith, and society.