"Spurned lover. I was a strapping young gossoon at that time, I tell you. I'll show you my likeness one day. I was, faith. Lover, for her love he prowled with colonel Richard Burke, tanist of his sept, under the walls of
Clerkenwell and, crouching, saw a flame of vengeance hurl them upward in the fog. Shattered glass and toppling masonry." (U3.245)
Clerkenwell and, crouching, saw a flame of vengeance hurl them upward in the fog. Shattered glass and toppling masonry." (U3.245)
"In gay Paree he hides, Egan of Paris, unsought by any save by me. Making his day's stations, the dingy printingcase, his three taverns," (U3.249)
"the Montmartre lair he sleeps short night in, rue de la Goutte-d'Or, damascened with flyblown faces of the gone. Loveless, landless, wifeless. She is quite nicey comfy without her outcast man, madame in rue Gît-le-Cœur, canary and two buck lodgers. Peachy cheeks, a zebra skirt, frisky as a young thing's. Spurned and undespairing." (U3.251)
"Tell Pat you saw me, won't you? I wanted to get poor Pat a job one time. Mon fils, soldier of France." (U3.256)
"I taught him to sing. The boys of Kilkenny are stout roaring blades. Know that old lay? I taught Patrice that. Old Kilkenny: saint Canice," (U3.257)
"Strongbow's castle on the Nore. Goes like this. O, O. He takes me, Napper Tandy, by the hand.
O the boys of
Kilkenny ....
Weak wasting hand on mine. They have forgotten Kevin Egan, not he them. Remembering thee, O Sion." (U3.259)
O the boys of
Kilkenny ....
Weak wasting hand on mine. They have forgotten Kevin Egan, not he them. Remembering thee, O Sion." (U3.259)
"He had come nearer the edge of the sea and wet sand slapped his boots. The new air greeted him, harping in wild nerves, wind of wild air of seeds of brightness." (U3.265)
"Here, I am not walking out to the Kish lightship, am I? He stood suddenly, his feet beginning to sink slowly in the quaking soil.
Turn back.
Turning, he scanned the shore south, his feet sinking again slowly in new sockets." (U3.267)
A lightship is a a moored or anchored vessel with a beacon light to warn or guide ships at sea. Until I find one of Kish, this is the Brake lightship that was stationed on the Thames around the same period.
Turn back.
Turning, he scanned the shore south, his feet sinking again slowly in new sockets." (U3.267)
A lightship is a a moored or anchored vessel with a beacon light to warn or guide ships at sea. Until I find one of Kish, this is the Brake lightship that was stationed on the Thames around the same period.
"The cold domed room of the tower waits. Through the barbacans the shafts of light are moving ever, slowly ever as my feet are sinking, creeping duskward over the dial floor. Blue dusk, nightfall, deep blue night. In the darkness of the dome they wait, their pushedback chairs, my obelisk valise, around a board of abandoned platters. Who to clear it? He has the key. I will not sleep there when this night comes." (U3.271)
"A shut door of a silent tower entombing their blind bodies, the panthersahib and his pointer. Call: no answer. He lifted his feet up from the suck and turned back by the mole of boulders. Take all, keep all. My soul walks with me, form of forms. So in the moon's midwatches I pace the path above the rocks, in sable silvered, hearing Elsinore's tempting flood." (U3.276)
"The flood is following me. I can watch it flow past from here. Get back then by the Poolbeg road to the strand there. He climbed over the sedge and eely oarweeds and sat on a stool of rock, resting his ashplant in a grike.
A bloated carcass of a dog lay lolled on bladderwrack. Before him the gunwale of a boat, sunk in sand." (U3.282)
A bloated carcass of a dog lay lolled on bladderwrack. Before him the gunwale of a boat, sunk in sand." (U3.282)
"Un coche ensablé Louis Veuillot called Gautier's prose. These heavy sands are language tide and wind have silted here. And these, the stoneheaps of dead builders, a warren of weasel rats. Hide gold there. Try it. You have some. Sands and stones. Heavy of the past. Sir Lout's toys. Mind you don't get one bang on the ear." (U3.287)
" I'm the bloody well gigant rolls all them bloody well boulders, bones for my steppingstones. Feefawfum. I zmellz de bloodz odz an Iridzman." (U3.291)
"A point, live dog, grew into sight running across the sweep of sand. Lord, is he going to attack me? Respect his liberty. You will not be master of others or their slave. I have my stick. Sit tight." (U3.294)
"From farther away, walking shoreward across from the crested tide, figures, two. The two maries." (U3.296)
"They have tucked it safe mong the bulrushes." (U3.297)