I think it's about love letters and lies. I love the linking in with religion and regret and confession with the blood and the wine and the ink - it's quite poetic!
'do you suppose they'd swap their blood for wine' - brilliant line, witty comments on the idea of stereotype drunken Irish Catholic priests with blood that's more alcohol (wine) than blood, and the idea of the wine at communion becoming the blood of Christ.
I think it's about love letters and lies. I love the linking in with religion and regret and confession with the blood and the wine and the ink - it's quite poetic!
'do you suppose they'd swap their blood for wine' - brilliant line, witty comments on the idea of stereotype drunken Irish Catholic priests with blood that's more alcohol (wine) than blood, and the idea of the wine at communion becoming the blood of Christ.