TELEMACHUS
"- What? Haines said, beginning to point at Stephen. He himself?
Buck Mulligan slung his towel stolewise round his neck and, bending in loose laughter, said to Stephen's ear:
- O, shade of Kinch the elder! Japhet in search of a father!
—We're always tired in the morning, Stephen said to Haines. And it is rather long to tell.
Buck Mulligan, walking forward again, raised his hands.
— The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue of Dedalus, he said." (U1.558)
In the Bible, Japhet is the son of Noah.
'Japhet in Search of a Father' is the title of a father-quest novel by Captain Frederick Marryat (1792 - 1848), published in 1836.
