He was angry with himself for being young and the prey of restless foolish impulses, angry also with the change of fortune which was reshaping the world about him into a vision of squalor and insincerity. Yet his anger lent nothing to the vision.
My mind rejects the whole present social order and Christianity – home, the recognised virtues, classes of life, and religious doctrines.
She ate the apple and gave it also to Adam who had not the moral courage to resist her.
And a barbarous bloody barbarian he is too, says the citizen.
Let people get fond of each other: lure them on. Then tear asunder.
Then I went to a certain nightclub. There were men there – and also women. At least, they looked like women.
If we could only live on good food like that, he said to her somewhat loudly, we wouldn’t have the country full of rotten teeth and rotten guts. Living in a bogswamp, eating cheap food and the streets paved with dust, horsedung and consumptives’ spits.
He was listening with pain of spirit to the overtone of weariness behind their frail fresh innocent voices. Even before they set out on life’s journey they seemed weary already.
Yes, evening will find itself in me, without me.
A brother is as easily forgotten as an umbrella.
God, these bloody English! Bursting with money and indigestion. Because he comes from Oxford. You.
His blood began to murmur in his veins, murmuring like a sinful city summoned from its sleep to hear its doom.
The cat walked stiffly round a leg of the table with tail on high. – Mkgnao! – O, there you are, Mr Bloom said, turning from the fire. The cat mewed in answer and stalked again stiffly round a leg of the table, mewing. Just how she stalks over my writingtable. Prr. Scratch my head. Prr.
Peter Piper pecked a peck of pick of peck of pickled pepper.
Couldn’t they invent something automatic so that the wheel itself much handier? Well but that fellow would lose his job then? Well but then another fellow would get a job making the new invention?
His heart trembled; his breath came faster and a wild spirit passed over his limbs as though he was soaring sunward. His heart trembled in an ecstasy of fear and his soul was in flight. His soul was soaring in an air beyond the world and the body he knew was purified in a breath and delivered of incertitude and made radiant and commingled with the element of the spirit. An ecstasy of flight made radiant his eyes and wild his breath and tremulous and wild and radiant his windswept limbs.
This fellow has heresy in his essay!
I also am sure that there is no such thing as free thinking in asmuch as all thinking must be bound by its own laws.
It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be nearer to it and to look upon its deadly work.
It was lovely to be tired.