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"- Who are you laughing at? says Bob Doran. So I saw there was going to be bit of a dust. Bob's a queer chap when the porter's up in him so says I just to make talk: - How's Willy Murray those times, Alf? - I don't know, says Alf. I saw him just now in Capel Street with Paddy Dignam. Only I was running after that... - You what? says Joe, throwing down the letters. With who? - With Dignam, says Alf. - Is it Paddy? says Joe. - Yes, says Alf. Why?" (U12.310) |
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"In the darkness spirit hands were felt to flutter and when prayer by tantras had been directed to the proper quarter a faint but increasing luminosity of ruby light became gradually visible, the apparition of the etheric double being particularly lifelike owing to the discharge of jivic rays from the crown of the head and face." (U12.338) |
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"for it was reported in devanic circles that Mars" (U12. 358) |
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"and Jupiter were out for mischief on the eastern angle where the ram has power." (U12. 359) |
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"Before departing he requested that it should be told to his dear son Patsy that the other boot which he had been looking for was at present under the commode in the return room and that the pair should be sent to Cullen's to be soled only as the heels were still good. He stated that this had greatly perturbed his peace of mind in the other region and earnestly requested that his desire should be made known. Assurances were given that the matter would be attended to and it was intimated that this had given satisfaction." (U12.366) |
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"The tear is bloody near your eye. Talking through his bloody hat. Fitter for him to go home to the little sleepwalking bitch he married, Mooney, the bumbailiff's daughter, mother kept a kip in Hardwicke street," (12.397) |
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"that used to be stravaging about the landings Bantam Lyons told me that was stopping there at two in the morning without a stitch on her, exposing her person, open to all comers, fair field and no favour." (U12.399)" |
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"And he starts reading out one. 7, Hunter Street, Liverpool. To the High Sheriff of Dublin, Dublin. Honoured sir i beg to offer my services in the abovementioned painful case i hanged Joe Gann in Bootle jail on the 12 of Febuary 1900 and i hanged... - Show us, Joe, says I. - ...private Arthur Chace for fowl murder of Jessie Tilsit in Pentonville prison and i was assistant when... - Jesus, says I. - ...Billington executed the awful murderer Toad Smith... " (U12.414) |
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"Hello, Bloom, says he, what will you have? So they started arguing about the point, Bloom saying he wouldn't and he couldn't and excuse him no offence and all to that and then he said well he'd just take a cigar. Gob, he's a prudent member and no mistake. - Give us one of your prime stinkers, Terry, says Joe." (U18.434) |
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"And Alf was telling us there was one chap sent in a mourning card with a black border round it. - They're all barbers, says he, from the black country that would hang their own fathers for five quid down and travelling expenses." (U12.439) |
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"And he was telling us there's two fellows waiting below to pull his heels down when he gets the drop and choke him properly and then they chop up the rope after and sell the bits for a few bob a skull." (U12.443) A piece of hangman's rope is a good luck charm! |
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"So they started talking about capital punishment and of course Bloom comes out with the why and the wherefore and all the codology of the business and the old dog smelling him all the time I'm told those jewies does have a sort of a queer odour coming off them for dogs about I don't know what all deterrent effect and so forth and so on." (U12.450) |
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"- God's truth, says Alf. I heard that from the head warder that was in Kilmainham when they hanged Joe Brady, the invincible. He told me when they cut him down after the drop it was standing up in their faces like a poker." (U12.459) |
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"- Ruling passion strong in death, says Joe, as someone said. - That can be explained by science, says Bloom. It's only a natural phenomenon, don't you see, because on account of the... And then he starts with his jawbreakers about phenomenon and science and this phenomenon and the other phenomenon." (U12.463) From Alexander Pope's Moral Essays. Epistle I. Of the Knowledge of the Characters of Men: 'And you, brave COBHAM! to the latest breath Shall feel your Ruling Passion strong in death;' |
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"The distinguished scientist Herr Professor Luitpold Blumenduft tendered medical evidence to the effect that the instantaneous fracture of the cervical vertebrae and consequent scission of the spinal cord would, according to the best approved traditions of medical science, be calculated to inevitably produce in the human subject a violent ganglionic stimulus of the nerve centres of the genital apparatus," (U12.468) |