Daniel: We’re doing The Lake Isle of Innisfree in school.
Mr. Waffle [to my sister and her partner who have joined us for dinner]: God, when we went to Sligo last year on holidays, we found Yeats didn’t look much outside there for inspiration. All his poems feature places in Sligo.
My sister’s partner [sotto voce]: Sailing to Byzantium
Long pause
Daniel: Where do you think he left from?
