TELEMACHUS
"- You said, Stephen answered, O, it's only Dedalus whose mother is beastly dead.
A flush which made him seem younger and more engaging rose to Buck Mulligan's cheek.
- Did I say that? he asked. Well? What harm is that?
He shook his constraint from him nervously.
-And what is death, he asked, your mother's or yours or my own? You saw only your mother die." (U1.198)
[*Ed. 'Beastly dead' may be an inversion of the common Irish expression 'beo beithioch', Irish for 'beastly alive.' Suggested by Michael Reidy, a visitor to the site]
