SCYLLA & CHARYBDIS
" — O, the night in the Camden hall when the daughters of Erin had to lift their skirts to step over you as you lay in your mulberrycoloured, multicoloured, multitudinous vomit!" (U9.1192)
[*Ed. Mulligan is referring to a real incident, as told on the James Joyce Centre website. On June 20, 1904, Joyce turned up very drunk to attend a rehearsal of the National Theatre Society at the Camden Hall and collapsed in a passageway. One of the actors, Vera Esposito, stumbled over him...]
