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Ulysses


                                  jew. People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but
                                  what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep. The
                                  most vulnerable point too of tender Achilles. Your god
                                  was a jew. Because mostly they appeared to imagine he

                                  came from Carrick-on-Shannon  or somewhereabouts in
                                  the county Sligo.
                                     —I propose, our hero eventually suggested after mature
                                  reflection while prudently pocketing her photo, as it’s
                                  rather stuffy here you just come home with me and talk
                                  things over. My diggings are quite close in the vicinity.
                                  You can’t drink that stuff. Do you like cocoa? Wait. I’ll
                                  just pay this lot.
                                     The best plan clearly being to clear out, the remainder
                                  being plain sailing, he beckoned, while prudently
                                  pocketing the photo, to the keeper of the shanty who
                                  didn’t seem to.
                                     —Yes, that’s the best, he assured Stephen to whom for
                                  the matter of that Brazen Head or him or anywhere else
                                  was all more or less.
                                     All kinds of Utopian plans were flashing through his
                                  (B’s) busy brain, education (the genuine article), literature,
                                  journalism, prize titbits, up to date billing, concert tours in
                                  English watering resorts packed with hydros and seaside
                                  theatres, turning money away, duets in Italian with the



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