Ulysses by James Joyce
page 77 of 1080 (07%)
page 77 of 1080 (07%)
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night: the tanyard smells.
WHITE THY FAMBLES, RED THY GAN AND THY QUARRONS DAINTY IS. COUCH A HOGSHEAD WITH ME THEN. IN THE DARKMANS CLIP AND KISS. Morose delectation Aquinas tunbelly calls this, FRATE PORCOSPINO. Unfallen Adam rode and not rutted. Call away let him: THY QUARRONS DAINTY IS. Language no whit worse than his. Monkwords, marybeads jabber on their girdles: roguewords, tough nuggets patter in their pockets. Passing now. A side eye at my Hamlet hat. If I were suddenly naked here as I sit? I am not. Across the sands of all the world, followed by the sun's flaming sword, to the west, trekking to evening lands. She trudges, schlepps, trains, drags, trascines her load. A tide westering, moondrawn, in her wake. Tides, myriadislanded, within her, blood not mine, OINOPA PONTON, a winedark sea. Behold the handmaid of the moon. In sleep the wet sign calls her hour, bids her rise. Bridebed, childbed, bed of death, ghostcandled. OMNIS CARO AD TE VENIET. He comes, pale vampire, through storm his eyes, his bat sails bloodying the sea, mouth to her mouth's kiss. Here. Put a pin in that chap, will you? My tablets. Mouth to her kiss. No. Must be two of em. Glue em well. Mouth to her mouth's kiss. |
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