"the attendant phenomena of eclipses, solar and lunar, from immersion to emersion, abatement of wind, transit of shadow," (U17.1132)
"taciturnity of winged creatures, emergence of nocturnal or crepuscular animals, persistence of infernal light, obscurity of terrestrial waters, pallor of human beings." (U17.1133)
"His (Bloom's) logical conclusion, having weighed the matter and allowing for possible error?
That it was not a heaventree, not a heavengrot, not a heavenbeast, not a heavenman. That it was a Utopia, there being no known method from the known to the unknown: an infinity renderable equally finite by the suppositious apposition of one or more bodies equally of the same and of different magnitudes: a mobility of illusory forms immobilised in space, remobilised in air: a past which possibly had ceased to exist as a present before its probable spectators had entered actual present existence." (U17.1137)
That it was not a heaventree, not a heavengrot, not a heavenbeast, not a heavenman. That it was a Utopia, there being no known method from the known to the unknown: an infinity renderable equally finite by the suppositious apposition of one or more bodies equally of the same and of different magnitudes: a mobility of illusory forms immobilised in space, remobilised in air: a past which possibly had ceased to exist as a present before its probable spectators had entered actual present existence." (U17.1137)
"Was he more convinced of the esthetic value of the spectacle?
Indubitably in consequence of the reiterated examples of poets in the delirium of the frenzy of attachment or in the abasement of rejection invoking ardent sympathetic constellations or the frigidity of the satellite of their planet." (U17.1146)
Indubitably in consequence of the reiterated examples of poets in the delirium of the frenzy of attachment or in the abasement of rejection invoking ardent sympathetic constellations or the frigidity of the satellite of their planet." (U17.1146)
"Did he then accept as an article of belief the theory of astrological influences upon sublunary disasters?
It seemed to him as possible of proof as of confutation and the nomenclature employed in its selenographical charts as attributable to verifiable intuition as to fallacious analogy: the lake of dreams, the sea of rains, the gulf of dews, the ocean of fecundity." (U17.1151)
It seemed to him as possible of proof as of confutation and the nomenclature employed in its selenographical charts as attributable to verifiable intuition as to fallacious analogy: the lake of dreams, the sea of rains, the gulf of dews, the ocean of fecundity." (U17.1151)
"What special affinities appeared to him to exist between the moon and woman?" (U17.1157)
"Her antiquity in preceding and surviving successive tellurian generations:" (U17.1159)
"her nocturnal predominance: her satellitic dependence: her luminary reflection:" (U17.1160)
"her constancy under all her phases, rising and setting by her appointed times, waxing and waning:" (U17.1161)
the forced invariability of her aspect: her indeterminate response to inaffirmative interrogation: " (U1.1162)
"her potency over effluent and refluent waters:" (U17.1163)
"her power to enamour, to mortify, to invest with beauty, to render insane," (U17.1164)
"to incite to and aid delinquency:" (U17.1165)
"the tranquil inscrutability of her visage: the terribility of her isolated dominant implacable resplendent propinquity:" (U17.1165)
"her omens of tempest and of calm: the stimulation of her light, her motion and her presence:" (U17.1167)
"the admonition of her craters, her arid seas, her silence:" (U17.1168)