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Ulysses

—Prove that he was a jew, John Eglinton
dared,’expectantly. Your dean of studies holds he was a
holy Roman.
Sufflaminandus sum.

—He was made in Germany, Stephen replied, as the
champion French polisher of Italian scandals.
—A myriadminded man, Mr Best reminded. Coleridge
called him myriadminded.
Amplius. In societate humana hoc est maxime necessarium ut
sit amicitia inter multos.
—Saint Thomas, Stephen began ...
—Ora pro nobis, Monk Mulligan groaned, sinking to a
chair.
There he keened a wailing rune.
—Pogue mahone! Acushla machree! It’s destroyed we are
from this day! It’s destroyed we are surely!
All smiled their smiles.
—Saint Thomas, Stephen smiling said, whose
gorbellied works I enjoy reading in the original, writing of
incest from a standpoint different from that of the new
Viennese school Mr Magee spoke of, likens it in his wise
and curious way to an avarice of the emotions. He means
that the love so given to one near in blood is covetously
withheld from some stranger who, it may be, hungers for

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