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By Parker Barry Photo Credits To: Parker Barry St. Petersburg captures the meaning of melancholy: grey weighs on the city regardless of the sun’s presence. It makes sense that Dublin and St. Petersburg are two cities famous for their depressing poetry and prose. James Joyce, an Irish unapologetic alcoholic genius — starving from poverty and going blind from a condition called “Iritis” (a very painful inflammation in the colored part of the eye), wrote some of the best prose of the twentieth century and practically invented the stream-of-consciousness narrative style....