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"- Ah, listen to this for God's sake, Ned Lambert pleaded. Or again if we but climb the serried mountain peaks...
- Bombast! the professor broke in testily. Enough of the inflated windbag!" (U8.313) |
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"MEMORABLE BATTLES RECALLED
- North Cork militia! the editor cried, striding to the mantelpiece. We won every time! North Cork and Spanish officers! - Where was that, Myles? Ned Lambert asked with a reflective glance at his toecaps. - In Ohio! the editor shouted. - So it was, begad, Ned Lambert agreed. Passing out he whispered to J.J. O'Molloy: - Incipient jigs. Sad case. - Ohio! the editor crowed in high treble from his uplifted scarlet face. My Ohio! - A perfect cretic! the professor said. Long, short and long." (U7.358) |
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"SPOT THE WINNER
Lenehan came out of the inner office with Sport' s tissues. - Who wants a dead cert for the Gold cup? he asked. Sceptre with O. Madden up. He tossed the tissues on to the table. Screams of newsboys barefoot in the hall rushed near and the door was flung open. - Hush, Lenehan said. I hear feetstoops." (U7.386) |
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"Professor MacHugh strode across the room and seized the cringing urchin by the collar as the others scampered out of the hall and down the steps. The tissues rustled up in the draught, floated softly in the air blue scrawls and under the table came to earth.
- It wasn't me, sir. It was the big fellow shoved me, sir." (U7.394) |
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"- Throw him out and shut the door, the editor said. There's a hurricane blowing.
Lenehan began to paw the tissues up from the floor, grunting as he stooped twice. - Waiting for the racing special, sir, the newsboy said. It was Pat Farrell shoved me, sir. " (U7.399) |
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"- Knee, Lenehan said.
He made a comic face and whined, rubbing his knee: - The accumulation of the anno Domini. - Sorry, Mr Bloom said." (U7.420) |
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"THE CALUMET OF PEACE
He offered a cigarette to the professor and took one himself. Lenehan promptly struck a match for them and lit their cigarettes in turn. J.J. O'Molloy opened his case again and offered it. - Thanky vous, Lenehan said, helping himself." (U7.464) |
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"THE GRANDEUR THAT WAS ROME
- Wait a moment, professor MacHugh said, raising two quiet claws. We mustn't be led away by words, by sounds of words. We think of Rome, imperial, imperious, imperative. He extended elocutionary arms from frayed stained shirtcuffs, pausing: - What was their civilisation? Vast, I allow: but vile. Cloacae: sewers." (U6.483) |
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"- They were nature's gentlemen, J.J. O'Molloy murmured. But we have also Roman law.
- And Pontius Pilate is its prophet, professor MacHugh responded." (U7.499) |
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"- Good day, Stephen, the professor said, coming to peer over their shoulders. Foot and mouth? Are you turned...?
Bullockbefriending bard." (U7.526) |
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"- Good day, Stephen, the professor said, coming to peer over their shoulders. Foot and mouth? Are you turned...?
Bullockbefriending bard." (U7.526) |
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"- O, I know him, Myles Crawford said, and I knew his wife too. The bloodiest old tartar God ever made. By Jesus, she had the foot and mouth disease and no mistake! The night she threw the soup in the waiter's face in the Star and Garter. Oho!
A woman brought sin into the world. For Helen, the runaway wife of Menelaus, ten years the Greeks. O'Rourke, prince of Breffni." (U7.532) |
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"LOST CAUSES
NOBLE MARQUESS MENTIONED - We were always loyal to lost causes, the professor said. Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. We were never loyal to the successful. We serve them. I teach the blatant Latin language. I speak the tongue of a race the acme of whose mentality is the maxim: time is money. Material domination." (U7.551) |
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"Lord Salisbury?" (U7.558)
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830-1903) was a British statesman and Prime Minister (for Queen Victoria then Edward VII) a total of over 13 years. Salisbury's expertise was in foreign affairs; for most of his time as Prime Minister he served as Foreign Secretary (rather than First Lord of the Treasury, the traditional position) and pursued a policy of 'Splendid Isolation.' Among the events of his premierships was the Partition of Africa, culminating in the Fashoda Crisis and the Second Boer War. Of Irish interest, he sought 'to fight Home Rule with kindness' by launching a land reform programme to promote Irish land ownership. |
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"LENEHAN'S LIMERICK
- There's a ponderous pundit MacHugh Who wears goggles of ebony hue. As he mostly sees double To wear them why trouble? I can't see the Joe Miller. Can you?" (U7.577) |