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- John W. Presley, James Joyce, Hans Walter Gabler, Wolfhard Steppe, Claus Melchior
- 1922
- “Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.” ― James Joyce, Ulysses.
- “History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” ― James Joyce, Ulysses.
- “I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.”
- “Love loves to love love.” ― James Joyce, Ulysses.
- Musings on Love and Maternity
- On Manhood and Paternity
- On Freedom, Nationhood, and Self-Determination
- Linguistic Mastery and Sensualism
Stephen imagines the harbor to be a bowl as he surveys it from the Martello Tower. Buck Mulligan used the Homeric term “the wine-dark sea” as an epithet (nickname or phrase) for the ocean. However, Stephen notices that the sea is green this morning and it reminds him of two things. The first uses the phrase “love’s bitter mystery” in a song from a ...
Bloom’s reaction is his deliberate opinion that the advertisement is improperly placed because it is right below the obituaries, indicating an unjust relationship between dead people and “potted meat.” But on a subliminal level, Bloom starts to associate Boylan’s usurpation of his wife and home with the image of Plumtree’s Potted Meat. Boylan and M...
Stephen sees Ireland’s history as a protracted string of invasions, uprisings, betrayals, and lamented heroes that enthrall the populace with the fantasy of freedom. Stephen would prefer to be rid of the illusion than cling to this dream. Stephen made a promise in ‘Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’that he would neither obey authority nor worsh...
With the serpentine letter S, ‘Ulysses’ begins and ends.‘Ulysses’ is a closed circle that ends where it started; this has been compared to serpent figures with tails in mouths in the ‘Book of Kells.’ Joyce accomplished a similar result in ‘Finnegans Wake’ by connecting the opening and concluding phrases so that the former completes the latter. The ...
Ulysses Quotes. One of the best book quotes from Ulysses. 01. “There is a time for making speeches, and a time for going to bed.” Homer. author. Odyssey. book. Ulysses. character. words. ᐧ. sleeping. ᐧ. talking. concepts. Recommended quote pages. Ulysses words sleeping talking. View All Quotes.
"An Honest Business Never Blush To Tell" PDF Cite Share. Context: Telemachus, son of Odysseus or Ulysses, wanders in search of his father, and the goddess Athene, disguised as Mentor, the trusted...
