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Article: Joyce's 'Ulysses.' (James Joyce)
- Article from:
- The Explicator
- Article date:
- January 1, 1995
- Author:
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As he sits in the dining room of the Ormond Hotel in the "Sirens" episode, Leopold Bloom hears Simon Dedalus sing "All Is Lost Now," which strengthens the feelings of betrayal with which he has wrestled all afternoon. He subsequently pictures Blazes Boylan and Molly in bed:
Flood of warm jimjam lickitup secretness flowed to flow in music out, in desire, dark to lick flow, invading. Tipping her tepping her tapping her topping her. Tup. Pores to dilate dilating. Tup. The joy the feel the warm the. Tup. To pour o'er sluices pouring gushes. Flood, gush, flow joygush, tup-throp. Now! Language of love. (274)
Obviously, the initial line of this passage is intended to ...