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Ulysses

He laughed to free his mind from his mind’s bondage.
Judge Eglinton summed up.
—The truth is midway, he affirmed. He is the ghost
and the prince. He is all in all.

—He is, Stephen said. The boy of act one is the mature
man of act five. All in all. In Cymbeline, in Othello he is
bawd and cuckold. He acts and is acted on. Lover of an
ideal or a perversion, like Jose he kills the real Carmen.
His unremitting intellect is the hornmad Iago ceaselessly
willing that the moor in him shall suffer.
—Cuckoo! Cuckoo! Cuck Mulligan clucked lewdly. O
word of fear!
Dark dome received, reverbed.
—And what a character is Iago! undaunted John
Eglinton exclaimed. When all is said Dumas fils (or is it
Dumas père?) is right. After God Shakespeare has created
most.
—Man delights him not nor woman neither, Stephen
said. He returns after a life of absence to that spot of earth
where he was born, where he has always been, man and
boy, a silent witness and there, his journey of life ended,
he plants his mulberrytree in the earth. Then dies. The
motion is ended. Gravediggers bury Hamlet père?) and
Hamlet fils. A king and a prince at last in death, with

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