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"- What is your idea of Hamlet? Haines asked Stephen.
- No, no, Buck Mulligan shouted in pain. I'm not equal to Thomas Aquinas and the fiftyfive reasons he has made to prop it up. Wait till I have a few pints in me first. He turned to Stephen, saying, as he pulled down neatly the peaks of his primrose waistcoat: - You couldn't manage it under three pints, Kinch, could you? - It has waited so long, Stephen said listlessly, it can wait longer. - You pique my curiosity, Haines said amiably. Is it some paradox? - Pooh! Buck Mulligan said. We have grown out of Wilde and paradoxes. It's quite simple. He proves by algebra that Hamlet's grandson is Shakespeare's grandfather and that he himself is the ghost of his own father." (U1.545) |
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"- What? Haines said, beginning to point at Stephen. He himself?
Buck Mulligan slung his towel stolewise round his neck and, bending in loose laughter, said to Stephen's ear: - O, shade of Kinch the elder! Japhet in search of a father!" (U1.558) In the Bible, Japhet is the son of Noah. 'Japhet in Search of a Father' is also the title of a father-quest novel by Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848), published in 1836. |
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"The seas' ruler, he gazed southward over the bay, empty save for the smokeplume of the mailboat vague on the bright skyline and a sail tacking by the Muglins." (U1.575)
This PC shows RMS (= Royal Mail Service) Leinster, one of the mailboats in service on the Irish Sea in 1904. The others were RMS Munster, Ulster, and Connaught. They carried the mail from Kingstown to Holyhead (Wales), from whence it was distributed by train to its various destinations. The mailboats also took passengers. RMS Leinster was built and started service in 1897; she was sunk by a German U-boat on her way to Holyhead in 1918. |
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"my father's a bird." (U3.585) |
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"With Joseph the joiner I cannot agree.
So here's to disciples and Calvary." (U1.586) |
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"He held up a forefinger of warning.
- If anyone thinks that I amn't divine He'll get no free drinks when I'm making the wine But have to drink water and wish it were plain That I make when the wine becomes water again." (U1.588) |
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"- Goodbye, now, goodbye! Write down all I said
And tell Tom, Dick and Harry I rose from the dead. What's bred in the bone cannot fail me to fly And Olivet's breezy - Goodbye, now, goodbye!" (U1.596) |
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"- The ballad of joking Jesus, Stephen answered.
- O, Haines said, you have heard it before? - Three times a day, after meals, Stephen said drily." (U1.608) |
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"- You're not a believer, are you? Haines asked. I mean, a believer in the narrow sense of the word. Creation from nothing and miracles and a personal God.
- There is only one sense of the word, it seems to me, Stephen said." (U1.611) |
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"- I am the servant of two masters, Stephen said, an English and an Italian.
- Italian? Haines said. A crazy queen, old and jealous. Kneel down before me. - And a third, Stephen said, there is who wants me for odd jobs." (U1.638) |
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"- Italian? Haines said again. What do you mean?
- The imperial British state, Stephen answered, his colour rising, and the holy Roman catholic and apostolic church. " (U1.642) Pope Pius X (1835-1914), born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, was Pope 1903-1914. His pontificate was noted for its conservative theology and reforms in liturgy and church law. He was canonized in 1954. |
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"- The imperial British state, Stephen answered, his colour rising," (U1.643)
A PC of Edward VII and Alexandra as imperial Irish monarchs, surrounded by the symbols of Ireland, the Viceregal Lodge, Kingstown, and the City Arms and motto of Dublin. |
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"Two men stood at the verge of the cliff, watching: businessman, boatman.
- She's making for Bullock harbour. The boatman nodded towards the north of the bay with some disdain. - There's five fathoms out there, he said. It'll be swept up that way when the tide comes in about one. It's nine days today." (U1.669) |
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"- Is the brother with you, Malachi?
- Down in Westmeath. With the Bannons. - Still there? I got a card from Bannon. Says he found a sweet young thing down there. Photo girl he calls her. - Snapshot, eh? Brief exposure." (U1.682) |
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Buck Mulligan sat down to unlace his boots. An elderly man shot up near the spur of rock a blowing red face. He scrambled up by the stones, water glistening on his pate and on its garland of grey hair, water rilling over his chest and paunch and spilling jets out of his black sagging loincloth.
Buck Mulligan made way for him to scramble past and, glancing at Haines and Stephen, crossed himself piously with his thumbnail at brow and lips and breastbone." (U1.687) |