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might be, bring once more into honour among mortal
men the winged speech of the seadivided Gael.
—It’s on the march, says the citizen. To hell with the
bloody brutal Sassenachs and their patois.

So J. J. puts in a word, doing the toff about one story
was good till you heard another and blinking facts and the
Nelson policy, putting your blind eye to the telescope and
drawing up a bill of attainder to impeach a nation, and
Bloom trying to back him up moderation and botheration
and their colonies and their civilisation.
—Their syphilisation, you mean, says the citizen. To
hell with them! The curse of a goodfornothing God light
sideways on the bloody thicklugged sons of whores’ gets!
No music and no art and no literature worthy of the
name. Any civilisation they have they stole from us.
Tonguetied sons of bastards’ ghosts.
—The European family, says J. J. ...
—They’re not European, says the citizen. I was in
Europe with Kevin Egan of Paris. You wouldn’t see a
trace of them or their language anywhere in Europe
except in a cabinet d’aisance.
And says John Wyse:
—Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.
And says Lenehan that knows a bit of the lingo:

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