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"he was looking at me I had that white blouse on open in the front to encourage him as much as I could without too openly they were just beginning to be plump I said I was tired we lay over the firtree cove a wild place" (U18.787) |
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"it must be the highest rock in existence the galleries" (U18.790) |
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"and Saint Michaels cave with the icicles or whatever they call them hanging down and ladders all the mud plotching my boots" (U18.791) |
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"and casemates and those frightful rocks" (U18.791) |
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"Im sure thats the way down the monkeys go under the sea to Africa when they die" (U18.793) A popular belief holds that that Gibraltar is linked to Africa by a subterranean passage over 15 miles (24 km) long which begins at Lower St. Michael's Cave and passes under the Strait of Gibraltar; presumably this is the way the Barbary Macaques entered The Rock from Morocco. |
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"after I tried with the Banana but I was afraid it might break and get lost up in me somewhere because they once took something down out of a woman that was up there for years covered with limesalts" (U18.803) |
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"but I opened my legs I wouldnt let him touch me inside my petticoat because I had a skirt opening up the side I tormented the life out of him first tickling him" (U18.810) |
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"I loved rousing that dog in the hotel rrrsssstt awokwokawok" (U18.812) |
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"Buttons men down the middle on the wrong side of them Molly darling he called me what was his name Jack Joe Harry Mulvey was it yes I think a lieutenant he was rather fair he had a laughing kind of a voice" (U18.815) A 19c. CDV of an officer in Gibraltar. OK, I'm imagining it may be Mulvey, but the place, the time, the blond boyish features fit nicely the possibility. The wrong-sided buttons are from a woman's perspective. |
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"its nearly 20 years if I said firtree cove he would if he came up behind me and put his hands over my eyes to guess who I might recognise him hes young still about 40 perhaps hes married some girl on the black water and is quite changed they all do they havent half the character a woman has she little knows what I did with her beloved husband before he ever dreamt of her in broad daylight too in the sight of the whole world you might say they could have put an article about it in the Chronicle" (U18.823) |
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"that old Bishop that spoke off the altar his long preach about womans higher functions about girls now riding the bicycle and wearing peak caps and the new woman bloomers God send him sense and me more money I suppose theyre called after him" (U18.837) |
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"I never thought that would be my name Bloom when I used to write it in print to see how it looked on a visiting card or practising for the butcher and oblige M Bloom youre looking blooming Josie used to say after I married him" (U18.840) |
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"well its better than Breen or Briggs does brig or those awful names with bottom in them Mrs Ramsbottom or some other kind of a bottom" (U18.843) |
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"the fun we had running along Williss road to Europa point" (U18.848) |
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"twisting in and out all round the other side of Jersey" (U18.849) |