Tuesday, November 3, 2009

The Quotable Ulysses

Before posting my final entry regard James Joyce's Ulysses, I thought I would share a few quotes I find notable. They are in no particular order.

"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him on the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned:
- Introibo ad altare Dei."

"History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."

"Mr. Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls."

"That is God...A shout in the street."

"I am a man misunderstood."

"A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."

"Aren't thou there, truepenny?"

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