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"The deepest poetry of Shelley, the words of Hamlet bring our minds into contact with the eternal wisdom," (U9.51) |
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"Plato's world of ideas." (U9.52) |
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"All the rest is the speculation of schoolboys for schoolboys. A.E. has been telling some yankee interviewer. Wall, tarnation strike me!" (U9.53) |
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"- The schoolmen were schoolboys first, Stephen said superpolitely. Aristotle was once Plato's schoolboy. - And has remained so, one should hope, John Eglinton sedately said. One can see him, a model schoolboy with his diploma under his arm. He laughed again at the now smiling bearded face." (U9.56) |
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"Formless spiritual. Father, Word and Holy Breath. Allfather, the heavenly man. Hiesos Kristos, magician of the beautiful, the Logos who suffers in us at every moment. This verily is that." (U9.61) |
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"I am the fire upon the altar. I am the sacrificial butter." (U9.63) |
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"- That model schoolboy, Stephen said, would find Hamlet's musings about the afterlife of his princely soul, the improbable, insignificant and undramatic monologue, as shallow as Plato's." (U9.76) |
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"Unsheathe your dagger definitions. Horseness is the whatness of allhorse. Streams of tendency and eons they worship. God: noise in the street: very peripatetic. Space: what you damn well have to see. Through spaces smaller than red globules of man's blood they creepycrawl after Blake's buttocks into eternity of which this vegetable world is but a shadow. Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past." (U9.84) After William Blake: "I know of no other Christianity and of no other Gospel than the liberty both of body and mind to exercise the Divine Arts of Imagination. Imagination the real & eternal World of which this Vegetable Universe is but a faint shadow & in which we shall live in our Eternal or Imaginative Bodies, when these Vegetable Mortal Bodies are no more." (Jerusalem, plate 77 'To the Christians') |
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"Mr Best came forward, amiable, towards his colleague. - Haines is gone, he said. - Is he? - I was showing him Jubainville's book. He's quite enthusiastic, don't you know, about Hyde's Lovesongs of Connacht. I couldn't bring him in to hear the discussion. He's gone to Gill's to buy it." (U9.90) |
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"-The peatsmoke is going to his head, John Eglinton opined. " (U9.100) |
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"We feel in England. Penitent thief. Gone. I smoked his baccy. Green twinkling stone. An emerald set in the ring of the sea." (U9.101) |
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"- People do not know how dangerous lovesongs can be, the auric egg of Russell warned occultly." (U9.103) |
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"The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside." (U9.104) |
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"He describes Hamlet given in a French town, don't you know, a provincial town. They advertised it." (U9.115) |
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"Sumptuous and stagnant exaggeration of murder. - A deathsman of the soul Robert Greene called him, Stephen said. Not for nothing was he a butcher's son, wielding the sledded poleaxe and spitting in his palms. Nine lives are taken off for his father's one." (U9.129) 1. Polonius - stabbed by Hamlet 2. Ophelia - drowns 3. Laertes - stabbed (with his own poisoned sword) by Hamlet 4. King Claudius - Hamlet stabs him then pours poison down his throat 5. Queen Gertrude - drinks from a poisoned cup 6. Hamlet - stabbed by Laertes with a poisoned weapon 7-8. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern - arrive in England with orders to be killed. |