"JOHN WYSE NOLAN
(in the background, in Irish National Forester's uniform, doffs his plumed hat) Prosper! Give shade on languorous days, trees of Ireland!"
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(in the background, in Irish National Forester's uniform, doffs his plumed hat) Prosper! Give shade on languorous days, trees of Ireland!"
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"THE YEWS
(murmuring) Who came to Poulaphouca with the High School excursion? Who left his nutquesting classmates to seek our shade?"
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(murmuring) Who came to Poulaphouca with the High School excursion? Who left his nutquesting classmates to seek our shade?"
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"BLOOM
(Scared.) High School of Poula? Mnemo? Not in full possession of faculties. Concussion. Run over by tram.
THE E/CHO
Sham!" (U15.3310)
(Scared.) High School of Poula? Mnemo? Not in full possession of faculties. Concussion. Run over by tram.
THE E/CHO
Sham!" (U15.3310)
"BLOOM
(pigeonbreasted, bottleshouldered, padded, in nondescript juvenile grey and black striped suit, too small for him, white tennis shoes, bordered stockings with turnover tops and a red schoolcap with badge) I was in my teens, a growing boy. A little then sufficed, a jolting car, the mingling odours of the ladies' cloakroom and lavatory, the throng penned tight on the old Royal stairs (for they love crushes, instinct of the herd, and the dark sexsmelling theatre unbridles vice), even a pricelist of their hosiery. And then the heat. There were sunspots that summer. End of school. And tipsycake. Halcyon days."
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(pigeonbreasted, bottleshouldered, padded, in nondescript juvenile grey and black striped suit, too small for him, white tennis shoes, bordered stockings with turnover tops and a red schoolcap with badge) I was in my teens, a growing boy. A little then sufficed, a jolting car, the mingling odours of the ladies' cloakroom and lavatory, the throng penned tight on the old Royal stairs (for they love crushes, instinct of the herd, and the dark sexsmelling theatre unbridles vice), even a pricelist of their hosiery. And then the heat. There were sunspots that summer. End of school. And tipsycake. Halcyon days."
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"(Halcyon Days, high school boys in blue and white football jerseys and shorts, Master Donald Turnbull, Master Abraham Chatterton, Master Owen Goldberg, Master Jack Meredith, Master Percy Apjohn, stand in a clearing of the trees and shout to Master Leopold Bloom.)
THE HALCYON DAYS
Mackerel! Live us again. Hurray! (they cheer)" (U15.3325)
THE HALCYON DAYS
Mackerel! Live us again. Hurray! (they cheer)" (U15.3325)
"BLOOM
(Hobbledehoy, warmgloved, mammamufflered,"
(U15.3332)
(Hobbledehoy, warmgloved, mammamufflered,"
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"starred with spent snowballs, struggles to rise.) Again! I feel sixteen! What a lark! Let's ring all the bells in Montague street. (He cheers feebly.) Hurray for the High School!
THE ECHO
Fool!"
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THE ECHO
Fool!"
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"THE YEWS
(rustling) She is right, our sister. Whisper. (Whispered kisses are heard in all the wood. Faces of hamadryads peep out from the boles and among the leaves and break, blossoming into bloom.) Who profaned our silent shade?"
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(rustling) She is right, our sister. Whisper. (Whispered kisses are heard in all the wood. Faces of hamadryads peep out from the boles and among the leaves and break, blossoming into bloom.) Who profaned our silent shade?"
(U15.3339)
"THE NYMPH
(coyly, through parting fingers) There? In the open air?"
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(coyly, through parting fingers) There? In the open air?"
(U15.3343)
"THE YEWS
(sweeping downward) Sister, yes. And on our virgin sward."
(U15.3345)
(sweeping downward) Sister, yes. And on our virgin sward."
(U15.3345)
"THE WATERFALL
Poulaphouca Poulaphouca
Phoucaphouca Phoucaphouca."
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Poulaphouca Poulaphouca
Phoucaphouca Phoucaphouca."
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"THE NYMPH
(With wide fingers.) O, infamy!"
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(With wide fingers.) O, infamy!"
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"BLOOM
I was precocious. Youth. The fauna. I sacrificed to the god of the forest. The flowers that bloom in the spring. It was pairing time. Capillary attraction is a natural phenomenon."
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I was precocious. Youth. The fauna. I sacrificed to the god of the forest. The flowers that bloom in the spring. It was pairing time. Capillary attraction is a natural phenomenon."
(U15.3352)
"Lotty Clarke, flaxenhaired, I saw at her night toilette through illclosed curtains with poor papa's operaglasses:"
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"The wanton ate grass wildly. She rolled downhill at Rialto bridge to tempt me with her flow of animal spirits. She climbed their crooked tree and I. A saint couldn't resist it. The demon possessed me. Besides, who saw?" (U15.3356)
"(Staggering Bob, a whitepolled calf, thrusts a ruminating head with humid nostrils through the foliage.)
STAGGERING BOB
(Large teardrops rolling from his prominent eyes, snivels.) Me. Me see."
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STAGGERING BOB
(Large teardrops rolling from his prominent eyes, snivels.) Me. Me see."
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