Both Uses of
shirk
in
Light in August
- Byron believed that there was not even enough left of him to do a good, shrewd job of shirking.†
Chpt 2 *shirking = avoiding
- To desire to shirk, even, since a man must be better than common to do a good job of malingering, the same as a good job at anything else: of stealing and murdering even.†
Chpt 2shirk = avoid
Definition:
to avoid something -- such as a duty or responsibility