"With clang tinkle boomhammer tallyho hornblower blue green yellow flashes Toft's cumbersome turns with hobbyhorse riders from gilded snakes dangled, bowels fandango leaping spurn soil foot and fall again.)"
(U15.4125)
(U15.4125)
"THE PIANOLA
Though she's a factory lass
And wears no fancy clothes.
(Closeclutched swift swifter with glareblareflare scudding they scootlootshoot lumbering by. Baraabum!)
TUTTI
Encore! Bis! Bravo! Encore!
SIMON
Think of your mother's people!" (U15.4129)
Though she's a factory lass
And wears no fancy clothes.
(Closeclutched swift swifter with glareblareflare scudding they scootlootshoot lumbering by. Baraabum!)
TUTTI
Encore! Bis! Bravo! Encore!
SIMON
Think of your mother's people!" (U15.4129)
"STEPHEN
Dance of death.
(Bang fresh barang bang of lacquey's bell, horse, nag, steer, piglings, Conmee on Christass, lame crutch and leg sailor in cockboat armfolded ropepulling hitching stamp hornpipe through and through. Baraabum! On nags, hogs, bellhorses, Gadarene swine, Corny in coffin"
(U15.4138)
Dance of death.
(Bang fresh barang bang of lacquey's bell, horse, nag, steer, piglings, Conmee on Christass, lame crutch and leg sailor in cockboat armfolded ropepulling hitching stamp hornpipe through and through. Baraabum! On nags, hogs, bellhorses, Gadarene swine, Corny in coffin"
(U15.4138)
"steel shark stone onehandled Nelson,"
(U15.4144)
(U15.4144)
"two trickies Frauenzimmer plumstained from pram filling bawling Gum he's a champion. Fuseblue peer from barrel rev. evensong Love on hackney jaunt Blazes blind coddoubled bicyclers Dilly with snowcake no fancy clothes."
(U15.4144)
(U15.4144)
"Then in last switchback lumbering up and down bump mashtub sort of viceroy and reine relish for tublumber bumpshire rose. Baraabum!"
(U15.4148)
(U15.4148)
"The couples fall aside. Stephen whirls giddily. Room whirls back. Eyes closed he totters. Red rails fly spacewards. Stars all around suns turn roundabout. Bright midges dance on walls. He stops dead.)"
(U15.4151)
(U15.4151)
"STEPHEN
Ho!
(Stephen's mother, emaciated, rises stark through the floor, in leper grey"
(U15.4155)
Ho!
(Stephen's mother, emaciated, rises stark through the floor, in leper grey"
(U15.4155)
"with a wreath of faded orangeblossoms and a torn bridal veil,"
(U15.4158)
(U15.4158)
"her face worn and noseless, green with gravemould. Her hair is scant and lank. She fixes her bluecircled hollow eyesockets on Stephen and opens her toothless mouth uttering a silent word. A choir of virgins and confessors sing voicelessly.)"
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(U15.4159)
"THE CHOIR
Liliata rutilantium te confessorum...
Iubilantium te virginum...
(From the top of a tower Buck Mulligan, in particoloured jester's dress of puce and yellow and clown's cap with curling bell, stands gaping at her, a smoking buttered split scone in his hand.)
BUCK MULLIGAN
She's beastly dead. The pity of it! Mulligan meets the afflicted mother. (He upturns his eyes.) Mercurial Malachi!"
(U15.4163)
Liliata rutilantium te confessorum...
Iubilantium te virginum...
(From the top of a tower Buck Mulligan, in particoloured jester's dress of puce and yellow and clown's cap with curling bell, stands gaping at her, a smoking buttered split scone in his hand.)
BUCK MULLIGAN
She's beastly dead. The pity of it! Mulligan meets the afflicted mother. (He upturns his eyes.) Mercurial Malachi!"
(U15.4163)
"THE MOTHER
(With the subtle smile of death's madness.) I was once the beautiful May Goulding. I am dead.
STEPHEN
(horrorstruck) Lemur, who are you? No. What bogeyman's trick is this?"
(U15.4172)
(With the subtle smile of death's madness.) I was once the beautiful May Goulding. I am dead.
STEPHEN
(horrorstruck) Lemur, who are you? No. What bogeyman's trick is this?"
(U15.4172)
"BUCK MULLIGAN
(shakes his curling capbell) The mockery of it! Kinch dogsbody killed her bitchbody. She kicked the bucket. (tears of molten butter fall from his eyes on to the scone) Our great sweet mother! Epi oinopa ponton.
THE MOTHER
(comes nearer, breathing upon him softly her breath of wetted ashes) All must go through it, Stephen. More women than men in the world. You too. Time will come.
STEPHEN
(choking with fright, remorse and horror) They say I killed you, mother. He offended your memory. Cancer did it, not I. Destiny."
(U15.4177)
(shakes his curling capbell) The mockery of it! Kinch dogsbody killed her bitchbody. She kicked the bucket. (tears of molten butter fall from his eyes on to the scone) Our great sweet mother! Epi oinopa ponton.
THE MOTHER
(comes nearer, breathing upon him softly her breath of wetted ashes) All must go through it, Stephen. More women than men in the world. You too. Time will come.
STEPHEN
(choking with fright, remorse and horror) They say I killed you, mother. He offended your memory. Cancer did it, not I. Destiny."
(U15.4177)
"THE MOTHER
a green rill of bile trickling from a side of her mouth) You sang that song to me. Love's bitter mystery.
STEPHEN
(eagerly) Tell me the word, mother, if you know now. The word known to all men."
(U15.4188)
a green rill of bile trickling from a side of her mouth) You sang that song to me. Love's bitter mystery.
STEPHEN
(eagerly) Tell me the word, mother, if you know now. The word known to all men."
(U15.4188)
"THE MOTHER
Who saved you the night you jumped into the train at Dalkey with Paddy Lee? Who had pity for you when you were sad among the strangers?"
(U15.4194)
Who saved you the night you jumped into the train at Dalkey with Paddy Lee? Who had pity for you when you were sad among the strangers?"
(U15.4194)
"Prayer is allpowerful. Prayer for the suffering souls in the Ursuline manual and forty days' indulgence. Repent, Stephen.
STEPHEN
The ghoul! Hyena!"
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STEPHEN
The ghoul! Hyena!"
(U15.4197)