Page 893 - ULYSSES
P. 893

Ulysses


                                  en ville, Mooney’s sur mer, the Moira, Larchet’s, Holles
                                  street hospital, Burke’s. Eh? I am watching you.
                                     PHILIP DRUNK: (Impatiently) Ah, bosh, man. Go to
                                  hell! I paid my way. If I could only find out about octaves.

                                  Reduplication of personality. Who was it told me his
                                  name? (His lawnmower begins to purr) Aha, yes. Zoe mou sas
                                  agapo. Have a notion I was here before. When was it not
                                  Atkinson his card I have somewhere. Mac Somebody.
                                  Unmack I have it. He told me about, hold on, Swinburne,
                                  was it, no?
                                     FLORRY: And the song?
                                     STEPHEN: Spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
                                     FLORRY: Are you out of Maynooth? You’re like
                                  someone I knew once.
                                     STEPHEN: Out of it now. (To himself) Clever.
                                     PHILIP DRUNK AND PHILIP SOBER:  (Their
                                  lawnmowers purring with a rigadoon of grasshalms) Clever ever.
                                  Out of it out of it. By the bye have you the book, the
                                  thing, the ashplant? Yes, there it, yes. Cleverever
                                  outofitnow. Keep in condition. Do like us.
                                     ZOE: There was a priest down here two nights ago to
                                  do his bit of business with  his coat buttoned up. You
                                  needn’t try to hide, I says to him. I know you’ve a Roman
                                  collar.



                                                         892 of 1305
   888   889   890   891   892   893   894   895   896   897   898