Bloomsday

A Ulysses quote every day

[Bloomsday @ulyssesrejoyced]

"What is your nation if I may ask, says the citizen.
Ireland, says Bloom. I was born here. Ireland."

[Bloomsday @ulyssesrejoyced]

"STEPHEN: (laughs emptily.) My centre of gravity is displaced. I have forgotten the trick. Let us sit down somewhere and discuss. Struggle for life is the law of existence but modern philirenists, notably the tsar and the king of England, have invented arbitration."

[Bloomsday @ulyssesrejoyced]

"Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes."

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[Bloomsday @ulyssesrejoyced]

Huzzah! Sceptre wins! But in the straight on the run home when all were in close order the dark horse Throwaway drew level, reached, outstripped her. All was lost now. Phyllis was silent: her eyes were sad anemones."

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[Bloomsday @ulyssesrejoyced]

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[Bloomsday @ulyssesrejoyced]

'[...] for various inventoried implements.
As?

Eeltraps, lobsterpots, fishingrods, hatchet, steelyard, grindstone, clodcrusher, swatheturner, carriagesack, telescope ladder, 10 tooth rake, washing clogs, haytedder, tumbling rake, billhook, paintpot, brush, hoe and so on.'

[Bloomsday @ulyssesrejoyced]

"Parrots. Press the button and the bird will squeak. [...] O, her mouth in the dark! And you a married man with a single girl! That's what they enjoy. Taking a man from another woman. [...] Different with me. Glad to get away from other chap's wife. Eating off his cold plate."

[Bloomsday @ulyssesrejoyced]

"STEPHEN: (Laughs emptily.) My centre of gravity is displaced. I have forgotten the trick. Let us sit down somewhere and discuss. Struggle for life is the law of existence but modern philirenists, notably the tsar and the king of Engand, have invented arbitration."

[Bloomsday @ulyssesrejoyced]

"STEPHEN: (laughs emptily.) My centre of gravity is displaced. I have forgotten the trick. Let us sit down somewhere and discuss. Struggle for life is the law of existence but modern philirenists, notably the tsar and the king of England, have invented arbitration."

[Bloomsday @ulyssesrejoyced]

"BLOOM: Sleep reveals the worst side of everyone, children perhaps excepted."

[Bloomsday @ulyssesrejoyced]

"To revert to Mr Bloom who, after his first entry, had been conscious of some impudent mocks which he, however, had borne with being the fruits of that age upon which it is commonly charged that it knows not pity."

[Bloomsday @ulyssesrejoyced]

prudently, as entering a lair or ambush of lust or adders: lightly, the less to disturb: reverently, the bed of conception and of birth, of consummation of marriage and of breach of marriage, of sleep and of death."

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[Bloomsday @ulyssesrejoyced]

"How?

With circumspection, as invariably when entering an abode (his own or not his own): with solicitude, the snakespiral springs of the mattress being old, the brass quoits and pendent viper radii loose and tremulous under stress and strain:

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[Bloomsday @ulyssesrejoyced]

"Hoho begob, says I to myself, says I. That explains the milk in the cocoanut and absence of hair on the animal's chest"

[Bloomsday @ulyssesrejoyced]

"What is your nation if I may ask, says the citizen.
Ireland, says Bloom. I was born here. Ireland."

[Bloomsday @ulyssesrejoyced]

"To revert to Mr Bloom who, after his first entry, had been conscious of some impudent mocks which he, however, had borne with being the fruits of that age upon which it is commonly charged that it knows not pity."

[Bloomsday @ulyssesrejoyced]

"Who made those allegations? says Alf.
- I, says Joe. I'm the alligator."

[Bloomsday @ulyssesrejoyced]

"The son unborn mars beauty: born, he brings pain, divides affecfion, increases care. He is a male: his growth is his father's decline, his youth his father's envy, his friend his father's enemy."

[Bloomsday @ulyssesrejoyced]

"STEPHEN: (Laughs emptily.) My centre of gravity is displaced. I have forgotten the trick. Let us sit down somewhere and discuss. Struggle for life is the law of existence but modern philirenists, notably the tsar and the king of Engand, have invented arbitration."

[Bloomsday @ulyssesrejoyced]

he is reported by
eyewitnesses as having stated that once a woman has let the cat into the bag
(an esthete's allusion, presumably, to one of the most complicated and
marvellous of all nature's processes - the act of sexual congress) she must
let it out again or give it life"