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James Joyce

  • Seline Bacchushas quoted2 years ago
    `And what did he die of so young, Gretta? Consumption, was it?'

    `I think he died for me,' she answered.
  • Seline Bacchushas quoted2 years ago
    Gabriel felt humiliated by the failure of his irony and by the evocation of this figure from the dead, a boy in the gasworks. While he had been full of memories of their secret life together, full of tenderness and joy and desire, she had been comparing him in her mind with another. A shameful consciousness of his own person assailed him. He saw himself as a ludicrous figure, acting as a penny-boy for his aunts, a nervous, well-meaning sentimentalist, orating to vulgarians and idealizing his own clownish lusts, the pitiable fatuous fellow he had caught a glimpse of in the mirror. Instinctively he turned his back more to the light lest she might see the shame that burned upon his forehead.
  • Ekaterina Tupovahas quoted2 years ago
    Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo...

    His father told him that story: his father looked at him through a glass: he had a hairy face.
  • Ola Pankovahas quoted5 months ago
    What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say good night and then his mother put her face down. That was to kiss. His mother put her lips on his cheek; her lips were soft and they wetted his cheek; and they made a tiny little noise: kiss. Why did people do that with their two faces?
  • Trang Phạmhas quotedlast year
    dog-in-the-blanket
  • Kendall Elmerhas quoted10 months ago
    holly and ivy round the pierglass and holly and ivy, green and red, twined round the chandeliers. There were red holly and green ivy round the old portraits on the walls. Holly and ivy for him and for Christmas.

    Repetition of Holly and ivy

  • Kendall Elmerhas quoted10 months ago
    It was not Wells's face, it was the prefect's. He was not foxing. No, no: he was sick really. He was not foxing. And he felt the prefect's hand on his forehead; and he felt his forehead warm and damp against the prefect's cold damp hand. That was the way a rat felt, slimy and damp and cold. Every rat had two eyes to look out of. Sleek slimy coats, little little feet tucked up to jump, black slimy eyes to look out of. They could understand how to jump. But the minds of rats could not understand trigonometry. When they were dead they lay on their sides. Their coats dried then. They were only dead things.

    Short simplistic words and sentences. Those of a child’s thought process

  • Kendall Elmerhas quoted10 months ago
    He was for Ireland and Parnell and so was his father: and so was Dante too for one night at the band on the esplanade she had hit a gentleman on the head with her umbrella because he had taken off his hat when the band played GOD SAVE THE QUEEN at the end.

    She is green but more religious

  • Kendall Elmerhas quoted10 months ago
    Apologize,
    Apologize,
    Pull out his eyes.
    Apologize,
    Pull out his eyes,
    Pull out his eyes,
    Apologize.

    Artist, turns Dante’s words into a little song

  • Kendall Elmerhas quoted10 months ago
    brush with the maroon velvet back was for Michael Davitt and the brush with the green velvet back was for Parnell.

    Two politicians. Parnell is the ‘uncrowned king of Ireland’ The founded the Irish National Land League together

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