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Ulysses

a home somewhere beneath or seemed to. Then he
looked up and saw the eyes that said or didn’t say the
words the voice he heard said, if you work.
—Count me out, he managed to remark, meaning

work.
The eyes were surprised at this observation because as
he, the person who owned them pro tem. observed or
rather his voice speaking did, all must work, have to,
together.
—I mean, of course, the other hastened to affirm, work
in the widest possible sense. Also literary labour not
merely for the kudos of the thing. Writing for the
newspapers which is the readiest channel nowadays. That’s
work too. Important work. After all, from the little I
know of you, after all the money expended on your
education you are entitled to recoup yourself and
command your price. You have every bit as much right to
live by your pen in pursuit of your philosophy as the
peasant has. What? You both belong to Ireland, the brain
and the brawn. Each is equally important.
—You suspect, Stephen retorted with a sort of a half
laugh, that I may be important because I belong to the
faubourg Saint Patrice called Ireland for short.
—I would go a step farther, Mr Bloom insinuated.

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