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James Joyce's Old Testament

This page is an adjunct to my Joycean history of Judeo-Christianity [qv] which will try to collate all Joyce's specific allusions to the Old Testament. (See also the New.) The books are arranged in the order they were written, as best I can guess. I've included the Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1911 edition) for each book as well.

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"[DBM:] Prepare to meet your God, [4:12] says he. Chuk! It went into his back up to the butt." [Eumeus]

longshot:"(Reuben J Antichrist, wandering jew... Aloft over his shoulder he bears a long boatpole from the hook of which the sodden huddled mass of his only son, [8:10] saved from Liffey waters, hangs from the slack of its breeches." [Circe]

[no Bartlett's quotes]

Bartlett's quotes: They shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree.

"--You know how his lesson begins? Haec dicit Dominus: in tribulatione sua consurgent ad me: venite et revertamur ad Dominum. [5:15]" [SH ch19]

"Losing heart. Gambling. Debts of honour. Reaping the whirlwind. [8:7]" [Eolus]

Bartlett's quotes: They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.
I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes.

720 BC

"and Virag begat Bloom et vocabitur nomen eius Emmanuel. [7:14]" [Circe]

"MAJOR TWEEDY... Up, guards, and at them! Mahal shalal hashbaz. [8:1]" [Circe]

longshot: "RUDY [11:6] ...A white lambkin peeps out of his waistcoat pocket." ('Rudolph' comes from 'wolf') [Circe]

"Lucifer, [14:12] dico, qui nescit occasum." [Proteus] "STEPHEN... (He fumbles again in his pocket and draws out a handful of coins. An object falls.) That fell.
BLOOM (Stooping, picks up and hands a box of matches.) This.
STEPHEN Lucifer. Thanks." [Circe]

"The void awaits surely all them that weave the wind [19:9]" [Telem]

passim: "Remember, Erin, thy generations and thy days of old, how thou settedst little by me and by my word and broughtest in a stranger to my gates to commit fornication [23:17] in my sight and to wax fat and kick like Jeshurum." (also in Ezekiel, etc) [Oxen]

"And as no man knows the ubicity of his tumulus nor to what processes we shall thereby be ushered nor whether to Tophet [30:33] or to Edenville" [Oxen]

'screech owl' = Lilith: "Then spoke young Stephen orgulous of mother Church that would cast him out of her bosom, of law of canons, of Lilith, [34:14] patron of abortions" [Oxen] "Agendath is a waste land, a home of screechowls" [Oxen] "HORNBLOWER (In ephod and huntingcap, announces.) And he shall carry the sins of the people to Azazel, the spirit which is in the wilderness, and to Lilith, the nighthag." [Circe]

chapters 40-55 written c538BC, maybe in Babylonia, by 'Deutero-Isaiah'

"To have brought a positive gain to others. Light to the gentiles. [49:6]" [Ithaca]

"And as they wended their way... chanting the introit in Epiphania Domini which beginneth Surge, illuminare [60] and thereafter most sweetly the gradual Omnes which saith de Saba venient..." [Cyclops]

Bartlett's: The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib.
The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
As a lodge in a garden of cucumbers.
They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. (Micah iv3)
In that day a man shall cast his idols to the moles and to the bats.
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils.
The stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water.
Grind the faces of the poor.
Walk with stretched-forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go.
In that day seven women shall take hold of one man.
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil.
I am a man of unclean lips.
The Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost parts of the rivers of Egypt.
Wizards that peep and that mutter.
To the law and to the testimony.
The ancient and honorable.
The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid.
Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming.
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!
The burden of the desert of the sea.
Babylon is fallen, is fallen.
Watchman, what of the night?
Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die.
Fasten him as a nail in a sure place.
Whose merchants are princes.
A feast of fat things.
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little.
We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement.
Their strength is to sit still.
Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book.
The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
Thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed.
Set thine house in order.
All flesh is grass.
The nations are as a drop of a bucket.
A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench.
There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.
He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter.
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts.
A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation.
Give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.
I have trodden the wine-press alone.
We all do fade as a leaf.

620 BC

"he having previously spotted on the printed pricelist for all who ran to read [2:2]" [Eumeus]

"By the Nilebank the babemaries kneel, cradle of bulrushes: a man supple in combat: stonehorned, [3:4] stonebearded, heart of stone." [Eolus]

Bartlett's: Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

600 BC

"STEPHEN... With me all or not at all. Non serviam! [2:20]" [Circe]

"(The rams' horns sound for silence. The standard of Zion [4:21] is hoisted.)" [Circe]

"--The leaning of sophists towards the bypaths of apocrypha is a constant quantity, John Eglinton detected. The highroads are dreary but they lead to the town. [6:16]" (via Bacon) [Scylla]

longshot:"(Reuben J Antichrist, wandering jew... Aloft over his shoulder he bears a long boatpole from the hook of which the sodden huddled mass of his only son, [6:26] saved from Liffey waters, hangs from the slack of its breeches." [Circe]

"If he must dispense his balm of Gilead [8:22] in nostrums and apothegms of dubious taste to restore to health a generation of unfledged profligates..." [Oxen]

"Elk and yak, the bulls of Bashan and of Babylon, [50:9] mammoth and mastodon, they come trooping to the sunken sea" [Oxen]

Bartlett's: Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein.
Amend your ways and your doings.
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there?
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men!
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
A man of strife and a man of contention.
Written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond.
He shall be buried with the burial of an ass.

580 BC

"Still I got to know that young Dixon... Wheels within wheels. [1:16]" [Lestryg]

Bartlett's: As if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.
The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge. (Jeremiah xxxi29)
Stood at the parting of the way.

"Near the end, remembering king David and the Sunamite, [1:2] he shared his bed with Athos, faithful after death." [Circe]

"The gombeen woman Eliza Tudor had underlinen enough to vie with her of Sheba. [10:2]" [Scylla] "...The Lily of Killarney, Balor of the Evil Eye, the Queen of Sheba" [Cyclops]

""He crossed Townsend street, passed the frowning face of Bethel. [12:29] El, yes: house of: Aleph, Beth." [Lotus]"

"Elijah [17] is coming. Dr John Alexander Dowie, restorer of the church in Zion, is coming." [Lestryg] "(Over the possing drift and choking breathcoughs, Elijah's voice, harsh as a corncrake's, jars on high..." [Circe]

"The collapse which Bloom ascribed to gastric inanition... Stephen attributed to the reapparition of a matutinal cloud (perceived by both from two different points of observation, Sandycove and Dublin) at first no bigger than a woman's hand. [18:44]" [Ithaca]

"Dogs licking the blood off the street [21:19] when the lord lieutenant's wife drove by in her noddy." [WRocks]

"Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? [21:20]" [Scylla]

Bartlett's: So that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
A proverb and a byword.
I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.
An handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse.
And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail.
How long halt ye between two opinions?
There ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand.
A still, small voice.
Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.

"STEPHEN... In Serpentine avenue Beelzebub [1:2] showed me her, a fubsy widow." [Circe]

"When, lo, there came about them all a great brightness and they beheld the chariot wherein He stood ascend to heaven. And they beheld Him in the chariot, clothed upon in the glory of the brightness, having raiment as of the sun, fair as the moon and terrible that for awe they durst not look upon Him. And there came a voice out of heaven, calling: Elijah! Elijah! [2:11]" [Cyclops]

"Descende, calve, [2:23] ut ne amplius decalveris." [Proteus]

"But, as he confidently anticipated, there was not a sign of a Jehu [9:20] plying for hire anywhere to be seen" [Eumeus]

"...and Lewy Lawson begat Ichabudonosor [24:1] and Ichabudonosor begat O'Donnell Magnus" [Circe]

Bartlett's: Death in the pot.
Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?
Like the driving of Jehu, the son of Nimshi: for he driveth furiously.

"I mean, a believer in the narrow sense of the word. Creation from nothing [1:1] and miracles and a personal God." [Telem] "One of her sisterhood lugged me squealing into life. Creation from nothing." [Proteus]

"They are entwined in nethermost darkness, the willer with the willed, and in an instant (fiat!) light shall flood the world. [1:2]" [Oxen]

"On now. Dare it. Let there be [1:3] life." [Eolus]

"Et vidit Deus. Et erant valde bona. [1:4]" [Proteus]

"The playwright who wrote the folio of this world and wrote it badly (He gave us light first and the sun two days later) [1:14]" [Scylla]

"of man's flesh made not in God's likeness, [1:26] the serpent's prey." [Telem]

"They clasped and sundered, did the coupler's will. [1:28]" (again at 9:1) [Proteus] "Fifteen children he had. Birth every year almost. That's in their theology or the priest won't give the poor woman the confession, the absolution. Increase and multiply." [Lestryg] "procreating function ever irrevocably enjoined" [Oxen] "according as men do with wives which Phenomenon has commanded them to do by the book Law" [Oxen]

"...sabbath sleep. [2:2]" [Proteus]

"Dick Adams, the besthearted bloody Corkman the Lord ever put the breath of life in [2:7]" [Eolus]

"The tree of forbidden [2:17] priest." [Nausikaa]

"Spouse and helpmate [2:20] of Adam Kadmon: Heva, naked Eve." [Proteus]

"of man's flesh made [2:22] not in God's likeness, the serpent's prey. [3]" [Telem]

"Spouse and helpmate of Adam Kadmon: Heva, naked [2:25] Eve." [Proteus]

"--Sabellius, the African, subtlest heresiarch of all the beasts of the field [3:1]" [Scylla]

"Will you be as gods? [3:5] Gaze in your omphalos." [Proteus]

"mettlesome youth which... is ever... for eating of the tree forbid it [3:6]" [Oxen] "Why they fear vermin, creeping things. Yet Eve and the serpent contradicts. Not a historical fact." [Circe] "For the rest Eve's sovereign remedy. Not for sale. Hire only." [Circe] "VIRAG Perfectly logical from his standpoint. Fall of man." [Circe] "A woman brought sin into the world." [Nestor] "A woman brought sin into the world." [Eolus] "Eve. Naked wheatbellied sin. A snake coils her, fang in's kiss." [Scylla]

"And they said farther she should live because in the beginning, they said, the woman should bring forth in pain [3:16]" [Oxen] "Heard he then in that clap the voice of the god Bringforth" [Oxen]

"Spouse and helpmate of Adam Kadmon: Heva, naked Eve. [3:20] ...Womb of sin." [Proteus]

"Across the sands of all the world, followed by the sun's flaming sword, [3:24] to the west, trekking to evening lands. She trudges, schlepps, trains, drags, trascines her load." [Proteus]

"(bis) That's able to raise a Cain. [4]" [fw047.34] "the worryld had been uncained." [fw059.10] "Cainandabler" [fw071.11] "more cainozoic" [fw101.12] "a Tripple of Caines" [fw106.30] "cainapple)" [fw121.11] "Pariah, cannibal Cain" [fw193.30] "I cain but are you able?" [fw287.10] "bloody face blong you, was misocain." [fw303.R5] "Cain." [fw307.11] "Cainfully!" [fw374.27] "on Cailcainnin widnight" [fw391.32] "Cainmaker's mace and waxened capapee." [fw583.26]

"old Methusalem [5:27] Bloom" [Cyclops]

"Moses begat Noah and Noah begat [5:28] Eunuch" [Circe]

"whose hair owes not a little to our tribal elixir of gopherwood [6:14]" [Circe]

"My dear Kitty told me today that she would dance in a deluge [6:17] before ever she would starve in such an ark of salvation [condom]" [Oxen]

"Rot a peck of pa's malt had Jhem or Shen brewed by arclight and rory end to the regginbrow [9:13] was to be seen ringsome on the aquaface." [fw003]

"And Noah was drunk with wine. And his ark was open. [9:21]" [Circe]

"I am another now and yet the same. A servant too. A server of a servant. [9:25]" [Telem]

via Magog: "...their antiquity, both having been taught on the plain of Shinar 242 years after the deluge in the seminary instituted by Fenius Farsaigh, descendant of Noah, [10:2] progenitor of Israel, and ascendant of Heber and Heremon, progenitors of Ireland" [Ithaca]

"Askenazim [10:3]" [Circe]

"Ham and his descendants [10:6] mustered and bred there." [Lestryg] "...all from Agendath Netaim and from Mizraim, the land of Ham." [Circe]

"a skyerscape of most eyeful hoyth entowerly [11:4]" [fw004.36]

"while in 1952 when Stephen would have attained the maximum postdiluvian age of 70 [11:6]" (eg) [Ithaca]

"Moses and the promised land. [12:7] We gave him that idea..." (again in Exodus) [Eolus]

"this stinking goat of Mendes gave precocious signs of infantile debauchery, recalling the cities of the plain [13:12]" [Circe]

"the unsubstantial lunch (rite of Melchisedek) [14:18]" [Ithaca]

"Nay, had the hussy's scouringbrush not been her tutelary angel it had gone with her as hard as with Hagar, the Egyptian [16:6]" [Oxen]

"--The islanders, Mulligan said to Haines casually, speak frequently of the collector of prepuces. [17:10]" [Telem] "--Jehovah, collector of prepuces, is no more." [Scylla] "the circumcision of male infants" [Ithaca]

"BELLO... Pander to their Gomorrahan vices. [18:20]" [Circe]

"A barren land, bare waste. Vulcanic lake, the dead sea: no fish, weedless, sunk deep in the earth. No wind could lift those waves, grey metal, poisonous foggy waters. Brimstone they called it raining down: the cities of the plain: Sodom, Gomorrah, [19:24] Edom." [Calypso]

"Cold oils slid along his veins, chilling his blood: age crusting him with a salt cloak. [19:26]" [Calypso]

"BLOOM (Placing his right hand on his testicles, swears.) [24:2]" [Circe]

"the voice of Esau. My kingdom for a [25:34] drink." [Scylla]

"not yet, though venissoon after, had a kidscad buttended a bland old isaac [27:1]" [fw003]

"I am tired of my voice, the voice of Esau. [27:22]" [Scylla] "BLOOM The voice is the voice of Esau." [Circe]

"a Yuletide card, bearing on it a pictorial representation of a parasitic plant, the legend Mizpah [31:49]" [Ithaca]

"Then the twelve brothers, Jacob's sons. [35:22]" [Eolus]

"the eroticism produced by feminine exhibitionism (rite of Onan) [38:9]" [Ithaca]

"None of your lean kine, [41:3] not much." [Oxen]

"Living on the fat of the land. [45:18]" [Lestryg]

Bartlett's: And God said, Let there be light: and there was light
It is not good that the man should be alone.
Bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh
They sewed fig-leaves together and made themselves aprons.
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.
For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
The mother of all living.
Am I my brother's keeper?
My punishment is greater than I can bear.
There were giants in the earth in those days.
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot.
Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.
Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between thee and me.
In a good old age.
His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him.
Old and well stricken in age.
His wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
They stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours.
Bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel.

560 BC

"In sweetly varying voices Buck Mulligan read his tablet [4:13]" [Scylla]

"I stand for the reform of municipal morals and the plain ten commandments. [5:7]" (also Exodus) [Circe]

"No sir smile neighbour shall covet his ox or his wife or his manservant or his maidservant or his jackass. [5:21]" [Scylla]

"Shema Israel Adonai Elohenu. [6:4] No, that's the other." [Eolus]

"And the tephilim [11:18] no what's this they call it [mezuzah] poor papa's father had on his door to touch. [11:20]" [Nausikaa] "BLOOM (Uncloaks impressively, revealing obesity, unrolls a paper and reads solemnly.) Aleph Beth Ghimel Daleth Hagadah Tephilim..." [Circe] "didnt he kiss our halldoor" [Penelope]

"the old longbearded jews in their jellibees and levites [12:12] assembly" [Penelope]

law violated: "A kidney oozed bloodgouts [12:16] on the willowpatterned dish: the last." [Calypso] "It's the blood sinking in the earth gives new life." [Hades] "Hot fresh blood they prescribe for decline." [Lestryg]

"the prolonged delivery of Mrs Mina Purefoy (heave offering) [12:17]" [Ithaca]

"MASTIANSKY AND CITRON Belial! [13:13]" [Circe]

"While he unwrapped the kidney the cat mewed hungrily against him... Say they won't eat pork. Kosher. [14:8]" [Calypso] "BLOOM... Aleph Beth Ghimel Daleth Hagadah Tephilim Kosher..." [Circe] "--You are no Israelite, said Stephen, I see you eat the unclean animal." [SH ch19]

"Live on fish, fishy flesh they have, all sea birds, gulls, seagoose... Wonder what kind is swanmeat. [14:16]" (also Leviticus) [Lestryg]

"Kosher. No meat and milk together. [14:21]" [Lestryg] (also Exodus) "The prohibition of the use of fleshmeat and milk at one meal" [Ithaca]

"AND IT WAS THE FEAST OF THE PASSOVER [16:1] All that long business about that brought us out of the land of Egypt [16:12] and into the house of bondage alleluia." [Eolus]

"Something like those mazzoth: it's that sort of bread: unleavened shewbread. [16:3]" [Lotus]

"HORNBLOWER... And they shall stone him [17:5] and defile him..." [Circe]

"--He spoke on the law of evidence, J.J. O'Molloy said, of Roman justice as contrasted with the earlier Mosaic code, the lex talionis. [19:21]" [Eolus] (also Exodus) "The vendetta of Mananaan! The sage repeated: Lex talionis." [Oxen]

law violated: "BLOOM... I tried her things on [22:5] only once, a small prank, in Holles street."

"and thither come all herds and fatlings and first fruits of that land [26:2]" (see also 12:6) [Cyclops]

law obeyed: "--You're in Dawson street, Mr Bloom said. Molesworth street is opposite. Do you want to cross? There's nothing in the way. [27:18]" [Lestryg]

"What in water did Bloom, waterlover, drawer of water, [29:11] watercarrier, returning to the range, admire?" [Ithaca]

"Remember, Erin, thy generations and thy days of old [32:7]" [Oxen]

"jackpriests moving burly in their albs, tonsured and oiled and gelded, fat with the fat of kidneys of wheat. [32:14]" [Proteus]

"thou settedst little by me and by my word and broughtest in a stranger to my gates to commit fornication in my sight and to wax fat and kick like Jeshurum. [32:15]" [Oxen]

vaguely: "Why hast thou done this abomination before me that thou didst spurn me for a merchant of jalaps [32:16]" [Oxen]

"Look forth now, my people, upon the land of behest, even from Horeb and from Nebo [32:48] and from Pisgah and from the Horns of Hatten unto a land flowing with milk and money." [Oxen]

via Exodus 28: "and Savorgnanovich begat Jasperstone [33:24] and Jasperstone begat Vingtetunieme" Asher's symbol [Circe]

"--And yet he died without having entered the land of promise. [34:4]" [Eolus] "I call it A Pisgah Sight of Palestine" [Eolus]

"at last the cavity of a mountain, an occulted sepulchre amid the conclamation of the hillcat and the ossifrage. [34:6]" [Oxen]

"from Moses (of Egypt) [34:10] to Moses (Mendelssohn) there arose none like Moses (Maimonides)" [Ithaca]

Bartlett's: Man doth not live by bread only.
The wife of thy bosom.
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.
The secret things belong unto the Lord.
He kept him as the apple of his eye.
Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked.
As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.

"DOLLY GRAY (From her balcony waves her handkerchief, giving the sign of the heroine of Jericho.) Rahab. [2:18]" [Circe]

"the model farm at Kinnereth [19:35] on the lakeshore of Tiberias." [Calypso]

Bartlett's: I am going the way of all the earth.

"See, thy fleece is drenched. [6:37]" [Oxen]

"HORNBLOWER (In ephod [8:27] and huntingcap, announces.)" [Circe]

"BLOOM... (He murmurs vaguely the pass of Ephraim.) Shitbroleeth. [12:6]" [Circe]

Bartlett's: I arose a mother in Israel.
The stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
She brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abi-ezer?
He smote them hip and thigh.
The Philistines be upon thee, Samson.
From Dan even to Beer-sheba.
The people arose as one man.

"...and Lewy Lawson begat Ichabudonosor [4:21] and Ichabudonosor begat O'Donnell Magnus" [Circe]

"Henry Joy M'Cracken, Goliath, [17:4] Horace Wheatley" [Cyclops]

"ZOE... (With little parted talons she captures his hand, her forefinger giving to his palm the passtouch of secret monitor, [20:20] luring him to doom.)" (origin of Masonic sign?) [Circe]

"the funeral (rite of Samuel) [28:3]" [Ithaca]

Bartlett's: Quit yourselves like men.
Is Saul also among the prophets?
A man after his own heart.
David therefore departed thence and escaped to the cave Adullam.

"--Ay, says I . How are the mighty fallen! [1:19]"

Bartlett's: Tell it not in Gath; publish it not in the streets of Askelon.
Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided.
How are the mighty fallen!
Thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
Abner smote him under the fifth rib.
Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown.
Thou art the man.
As water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again.
They were wont to speak in old time, saying, They shall surely ask counsel at Abel: and so they ended the matter.
The sweet psalmist of Israel.

"They have tucked it safe mong the bulrushes. [2:3]" [Proteus] "First, saved from waters of old Nile, among bulrushes, a bed of fasciated wattles" [Oxen] "My client is an infant, a poor foreign immigrant who started scratch as a stowaway... the alleged guilty occurrence being quite permitted in my client's native place, the land of the Pharaoh." [Circe]

"--Mr chairman, ladies and gentlemen: Great was my admiration in listening to the remarks addressed to the youth of Ireland a moment since by my learned friend. It seemed to me that I had been transported into a country far away from this country, into an age remote from this age, that I stood in ancient Egypt and that I was listening to the speech of some highpriest of that land addressed to the youthful Moses [2:10]... And it seemed to me that I heard the voice of that Egyptian highpriest raised in a tone of like haughtiness and like pride. I heard his words and their meaning was revealed to me. --Why will you jews not accept our culture, our religion and our language? You are a tribe of nomad herdsmen: we are a mighty people. You have no cities nor no wealth: our cities are hives of humanity and our galleys, trireme and quadrireme, laden with all manner merchandise furrow the waters of the known globe. You have but emerged from primitive conditions: we have a literature, a priesthood, an agelong history and a polity.
[SD thinks:] Nile. Child, man, effigy. By the Nilebank the babemaries kneel, cradle of bulrushes: [2:3] a man supple in combat: [2:12] stonehorned, [34:29] stonebearded, heart of stone.
--You pray to a local and obscure idol: our temples, majestic and mysterious, are the abodes of Isis and Osiris, of Horus and Ammon Ra. Yours serfdom, awe and humbleness: ours thunder and the seas. Israel is weak and few are her children: Egypt is an host and terrible are her arms. Vagrants and daylabourers are you called: the world trembles at our name... But, ladies and gentlemen, had the youthful Moses listened to and accepted that view of life, had he bowed his head and bowed his will and bowed his spirit before that arrogant admonition he would never have brought the chosen people out of their house of bondage, [13:3] nor followed the pillar of the cloud by day. [13:21] He would never have spoken with the Eternal amid lightnings on Sinai's mountaintop [19] nor ever have come down with the light of inspiration shining in his countenance [34:29] and bearing in his arms the tables of the law, [32:15] graven in the language of the outlaw... And yet he died without having entered the land of promise." [Eolus]

"nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe [3:2]" [fw003]

"Are you not my dear son Leopold who left the house of his father and left the god of his fathers Abraham and Jacob? [3:6]" [Circe]

"Look forth now, my people, upon the land of behest, even from Horeb and from Nebo and from Pisgah and from the Horns of Hatten unto a land flowing with milk and money. [3:8]" [Oxen] "the honeymilk of Canaan's land" [Oxen] "...the land of promise), of adipose anterior and posterior female hemispheres, redolent of milk and honey" [Ithaca]

"The adiaphane in the noon of life is an Egypt's plague [9:14]" [Oxen]

"All that long business about that brought us out of the land of Egypt [13:3] and into the house of bondage alleluia." [Eolus] "That brought us out of the land of Egypt and into the house of bondage." [Nausikaa]

"--A star by night, Stephen said. A pillar of the cloud by day. [13:21]" [Scylla] "The pillar of the cloud appears." [Circe] "On land... a pillar of the cloud by day." [Ithaca]

"Eating your groatsworth of mou en civet, fleshpots of Egypt [16:3]" [Proteus] "Who Cleopatra, fleshpot of Egypt, and Cressid and Venus are we may guess." [Scylla] "Fleshhotpots of Egypt to hanker after." [Circe]

"They never expected that. Manna. [16:14]" [Lestryg]

"I stand for the reform of municipal morals and the plain ten commandments. [20:3]" (also Deut) [Circe]

"Remember, Erin, thy generations and thy days of old, how thou settedst little by me and by my word and broughtest in a stranger to my gates [20:10] to commit fornication in my sight..." [Oxen]

"Stap my vitals, said he, them was always the sentiments of honest Frank Costello which I was bred up most particular to honour thy father and thy mother [20:12]" [Oxen]

Deut earlier: "--He spoke on the law of evidence, J.J. O'Molloy said, of Roman justice as contrasted with the earlier Mosaic code, the lex talionis. [21:23]" [Eolus] "The vendetta of Mananaan! The sage repeated: Lex talionis." [Oxen] "The Mosaic code has superseded the law of the jungle." [Circe]

"Kosher. No meat and milk together. [23:19]" [Lestryg] (also Deut) "The prohibition of the use of fleshmeat and milk at one meal" [Ithaca]

"Something like those mazzoth: it's that sort of bread: unleavened shewbread. [25:30]" [Lotus]

"The good bishop of Cloyne took the veil of the temple [26:31] out of his shovel hat" [Proteus]

"and Savorgnanovich begat Jasperstone [28:20] and Jasperstone begat Vingtetunieme" [Circe]

"A choir gives back menace and echo, assisting about the altar's horns [29:12]" [Proteus]

"with the light of inspiration shining in his countenance [34:29] and bearing in his arms [32:15] the secret of the race, graven in the language of prediction." [Ithaca]

"Moses and the promised land. [33] We gave him that idea..." [Eolus]

Bartlett's: I have been a stranger in a strange land.
A land flowing with milk and honey. (Jeremiah xxxii22)
Darkness which may be felt.
The Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire.
When we sat by the fleshpots.

"By prodding a prong of the fork under the kidney he detached it and turned it turtle on its back. Only a little burnt. [3:5]" [Calypso]

"the prolonged delivery of Mrs Mina Purefoy (heave offering) [7:32]" (also Deut) [Ithaca]

law obeyed: "--God Almighty couldn't make him drunk, [10:9] Nosey Flynn said firmly." [Lestryg]

"Live on fish, fishy flesh they have, all sea birds, gulls, seagoose... Wonder what kind is swanmeat. [11:18]" (also Deut) [Lestryg]

law violated? "Mr Bloom with careful hand recomposed his wet shirt. [15:16]" [Nausikaa]

"She bows her old head... To the voice that will shrive and oil for the grave all there is of her but her woman's unclean loins, [15:19] of man's flesh made not in God's likeness, the serpent's prey." [Telem] "Devils they are when that's coming on them. Dark devilish appearance... Wonder if it's bad to go with them then." [Nausikaa]

"I am being made a scapegoat [16:21] of." [Circe] "HORNBLOWER (In ephod and huntingcap, announces.) And he shall carry the sins of the people to Azazel, the spirit which is in the wilderness, and to Lilith, the nighthag." [Circe]

law violated? "--The wandering jew, Buck Mulligan whispered... He looked upon you to lust after you. [18:22]" [Scylla]

law violated: [Dublin full of 'talebearers' especially Nameless in Cyclops] [19:16]

"--Well, says John Wyse, isn't that what we're told? Love your neighbours. [19:18]" [Cyclops]

law violated: "How to win a woman's love. For me this. Say the following talisman [19:26] three times" [WRocks]

"Mastiansky and Citron approach in gaberdines, wearing long earlocks. [19:27] They wag their beards at Bloom." [Circe]

law violated: "...his chest on which was to be seen an image tattooed in blue Chinese ink [19:28]" [Eumeus]

"the sanctity of the sabbath. [23:3]" [Ithaca]

"I'd like to see them do the black fast Yom Kippur. [23:27]" [Lestryg] "Yom Kippur fast spring cleaning of inside." [Lestryg] "BLOOM... Aleph Beth Ghimel Daleth Hagadah Tephilim Kosher Yom Kippur..." [Circe]

"Something like those mazzoth: it's that sort of bread: unleavened shewbread. [24:5]" [Lotus]

Bartlett's: Love thy neighbour as thyself.

"Martin Cunningham nudged Mr Power. --Of the tribe of Reuben, [1:5] he said." [Hades] "And there sat with him the high sinhedrim of the twelve tribes of Iar, for every tribe one man" [Cyclops]

"It lay beneath him, a bowl of bitter waters. [5:18]" [Telem]

"A streamer bearing the legends Cead Mile Failte and Mah Ttob Melek Israel [24:5] spans the street." [Circe]

Bartlett's: The Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?
Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!
How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!

530 BC

"Bang fresh barang bang of lacquey's bell, horse, nag, steer, piglings, Conmee on Christass [9:9]" [Circe]

Bartlett's: Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
For who hath despised the day of small things?
Prisoners of hope.
I was wounded in the house of my friends.

460 BC

"--May I? he said. The Lord has spoken to Malachi. [1:1]" [Scylla]

"after wind and water fire shall come for a prognostication of Malachi's almanac [4:1]" [Oxen]

longshot: "STEPHEN (Abruptly.) What went forth to the ends of the world to traverse not itself. God, the sun, [4:2] Shakespeare, a commercial traveller" [Circe]

"Elijah is coming. [4:5] Dr John Alexander Dowie, restorer of the church in Zion, is coming." [Lestryg]

Bartlett's: But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings.

Bartlett's: Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.
Multitudes in the valley of decision.

350 BC?

"for as he came naked forth from his mother's womb so naked shall he wend him at the last [1:21] for to go as he came." [Oxen]

"Therefore, everyman, look to that last end that is thy death and the dust that gripeth on every man that is born of woman [14:1]" [Oxen]

Bartlett's: One that feared God and eschewed evil.
Satan came also.
The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.
All that a man hath will he give for his life.
There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest.
Night, when deep sleep falleth on men.
Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
How forcible are right words!
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle.
He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
I would not live alway.
The land of darkness and the shadow of death.
Clearer than the noonday.
Wisdom shall die with you.
Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee.
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
Miserable comforters are ye all.
The king of terrors.
I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
Seeing the root of the matter is found in me.
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue.
The land of the living.
The price of wisdom is above rubies.
When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me.
I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
The house appointed for all living.
My desire is that mine adversary had written a book.
Great men are not always wise.
He multiplieth words without knowledge.
Fair weather cometh out of the north.
Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
The morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy.
Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.
Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
Canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
He smelleth the battle afar off.
Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook?
Hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
He maketh the deep to boil like a pot.
I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; but now mine eye seeth thee.

300 BC?

"Babes and sucklings [8:2] are held up." via Matthew [Circe]

"STEPHEN... It may be an old hymn to Demeter or also illustrate Coela enarrant gloriam Domini. [19:1]" [Circe] "David's tip from the stable to his chief bassoonist about the alrightness of his almightiness" [Circe]

"Elk and yak, the bulls of Bashan [22:12] and of Babylon... they come trooping to the sunken sea" [Oxen]

"the delegates... broke out at once into a strife of tongues. [31:20]" [Oxen]

"Introibo ad altare Dei. [43:4]" [Telem]

"--O God, our refuge and our strength... [46:1]" [Lotus]

"the wellbeloved, for they knew and loved her from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof [50:1]" [Cyclops]

"Omnis caro ad te veniet. [65:2]" [Proteus] "This is the postcreation. Omnis cam ad te veniet." [Oxen]

"Father Conmee read in secret Pater and Ave and crossed his breast. Deus in adiutorium. [70:1] [WRocks]

"STEPHEN Et exaltabuntur cornua iusti. [75:10]" [Circe]

"...all from Agendath Netaim and from Mizraim, the land of Ham. [78:51]" [Circe]

"while in 1952 when Stephen would have attained the maximum postdiluvian age of 70 [90:10]" (eg) [Ithaca]

"With what intonation secreto of what commemorative psalm? The 113th, modus peregrinus: In exitu Israel de Egypto: domus Jacob de populo barbaro. [113]" [Ithaca]

"the choir sang Laudate Dominum omnes gentes [117:1]" [Nausikaa]

"A choir gives back menace and echo, assisting about the altar's horns [118:27]" (also Exodus) [Proteus]

"He walked calmly and read mutely the nones, walking and reading till he came to Res in Beati immaculati: --Principium verborum tuorum veritas: in eternum omnia iudicia iustitiae tuae. [119:160] A flushed young man came from a gap of a hedge and after him came a young woman... Father Conmee blessed both gravely and turned a thin page of his breviary. Sin: --Principes persecuti sunt me gratis: et a verbis tuis formidavit cor meum." [WRocks]

"Remembering thee, O Sion. [137]" [Proteus]

"Righto, any old time. Laetabuntur in cubilibus suis. [149:5]" [Oxen]

Bartlett's: His leaf also shall not wither.
Lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings.
Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.
He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.
The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings.
The sorrows of death compassed me.
He rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handiwork.
Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge.
And there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
I may tell all my bones.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
My cup runneth over.
From the strife of tongues.
He fashioneth their hearts alike.
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
Spreading himself like a green bay-tree.
Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright.
While I was musing the fire burned.
Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
Every man at his best state is altogether vanity.
He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
Blessed is he that considereth the poor.
As the hart panteth after the water-brooks.
Deep calleth unto deep.
My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, the city of the great King.
Man being in honour abideth not; he is like the beasts that perish.
The cattle upon a thousand hills.
Oh that I had wings like a dove!
We took sweet counsel together.
But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.
The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart.
My heart is fixed.
They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
Vain is the help of man.
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance they are altogether lighter than vanity.
He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass.
His enemies shall lick the dust.
As a dream when one awaketh.
Promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
He putteth down one and setteth up another.
They go from strength to strength.
A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Mercy and truth are met together: righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
A thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
We spend our years as a tale that is told.
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Establish thou the work of our hands upon us: yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
The noise of many waters.
The Lord reigneth; let the earth rejoice.
As for man his days are as grass; as a flower of the field so he flourisheth.
The wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Wine that maketh glad the heart of man.
Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters.
At their wits' end.
Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.
I said in my haste, All men are liars.
Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.
The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.
I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditations.
A lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.
The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.
He giveth his beloved sleep.
Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them.
Thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids. (Proverbs vi4)
Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.
We hanged our harps upon the willows.
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea.
I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Put not your trust in princes.

"Virag from Hungary! Ahasuerus [4:6] I call him. Cursed by God." [Cyclops]

250 BC

"--That is God... A shout in the street [1:20]" [Nestor] "STEPHEN Hark! Our friend noise in the street!" [Circe]

"but he loudly bid them lo, wisdom hath built herself a house [9:1]" [Oxen]

"A soft answer turns away wrath. [15:1]" [Eumeus]

"--He who stealeth from the poor lendeth to the Lord. [19:17] Thus spake Zarathustra." [Telem] "Which hearing young Stephen was a marvellous glad man and he averred that he who stealeth from the poor lendeth to the Lord" [Oxen]

"BLOOM The just man falls seven times. [24:16]" [Circe]

"Bone them young so they metamspychosis. [22:6?]" [Calypso]

"Better give way only half way the way of a man with a maid. [30:19]" [Sirens]

Bartlett's: My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the street.
Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.
Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting get understanding.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep.
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
As an ox goeth to the slaughter. (Jeremiah xi19)
Wisdom is better than rubies.
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
He knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell
A wise son maketh a glad father.
The memory of the just is blessed.
The destruction of the poor is their poverty.
In the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.
As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
The liberal soul shall be made fat.
A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast; but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.
The way of transgressors is hard.
He that spareth his rod hateth his son.
Fools make a mock at sin.
The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
The prudent man looketh well to his going.
The talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
The righteous hath hope in his death.
Righteousness exalteth a nation.
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.
He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
A word spoken in due season, how good is it!
A man's heart deviseth his way; but the Lord directeth his steps.
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
The hoary head is a crown of glory.
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.
A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it.
He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.
The eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise.
A wounded spirit who can bear?
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing.
A man that hath friends must show himself friendly; and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging.
Every fool will be meddling.
The hearing ear and the seeing eye.
It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.
Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it.
The borrower is servant to the lender.
Remove not the ancient landmark.
Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.
Put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
Riches certainly make themselves wings.
As he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup; at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.
If thou faint in the day of adversity thy strength is small.
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Heap coals of fire upon his head.
As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.
Answer a fool according to his folly.
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.
There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.
Wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein.
Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Open rebuke is better than secret love.
Faithful are the wounds of a friend.
A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
The wicked flee when no man pursueth; but the righteous are bold as a lion.
He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Give me neither poverty nor riches.
The horseleech hath two daughters, crying, Give, give.
In her tongue is the law of kindness.
She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
Her children arise up and call her blessed.
Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain.

"the music in the Ormond Hotel (Shira Shirim) [1:1]" [Ithaca]

"ZOE... Schorach ani wenowach, benoith Hierushaloim. [1:5]" [Circe]

"VIRAG... Hoax! Beware of the flapper and bogus mournful. Lily of the alley. [2:1]" [Circe]

"By Bloom: kifeloch, harimon rakatejch m'baad l'zamatejch (thy temple amid thy hair is as a slice of pomegranate). [4:3]" [Ithaca]

"And they beheld Him in the chariot, clothed upon in the glory of the brightness, having raiment as of the sun, fair as the moon and terrible [6:10] that for awe they durst not look upon Him." [Cyclops]

"Return, return, Clan Milly: forget me not, O Milesian. [6:13]" [Oxen]

"Belly without blemish, bulging big, a buckler of taut vellum, no, whiteheaped corn [7:2]" [Proteus]

general poetic parallels: "(Gazelles are leaping, feeding on the mountains. Near are lakes. Round their shores file shadows black of cedargroves. Aroma rises, a strong hairgrowth of resin. It burns, the orient, a sky of sapphire, cleft by the bronze flight of eagles. Under it lies the womancity, nude, white, still, cool, in luxury. A fountain murmurs among damask roses. Mammoth roses murmur of scarlet winegrapes. A wine of shame, lust, blood exudes, strangely murmuring.)" [Circe]

Bartlett's: For, lo! the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.
The little foxes, that spoil the vines.
Terrible as an army with banners.
Like the best wine, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.
Love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave.
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.

200 BC

"though an apogean humanity of beings created in varying forms with finite differences resulting similar to the whole and to one another would probably there as here remain inalterably and inalienably attached to vanities, to vanities of vanities and to all that is vanity. [1:2]" [Ithaca]

"The new I want. Nothing new under the sun. [1:9]" [Nausikaa] "VIRAG... To hell with the pope! Nothing new under the sun." [Circe]

"Barney Kiernan's I promised to meet them. Dislike that job. House of mourning. [7:2]" [Sirens]

"Eat, drink and be merry. [8:15] Then casual wards full after." [Lestryg]

"Children always want to throw things in the sea. Trust? Bread cast on the waters. [11:1]" [Nausikaa]

"the player is Shakespeare who has studied Hamlet all the years of his life which were not vanity [11:10]" [Scylla]

Bartlett's: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh.
The eye is not satisfied with seeing.
There is no new thing under the sun.
Is there anything whereof it may be said, See, this is new? It hath been already of old time, which was before us.
All is vanity and vexation of spirit.
He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
One event happeneth to them all.
To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.
A threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Let thy words be few.
Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
The sleep of a labouring man is sweet.
A good name is better than precious ointment.
It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting.
As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool.
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.
Be not righteous overmuch.
One man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
There is no discharge in that war.
To eat, and to drink, and to be merry. (Luke xii19)
A living dog is better than a dead lion.
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.
A bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days.
In the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.
He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.
In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand.
Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun.
Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth.
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth.
The grinders cease because they are few.
The grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.
Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies.
Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

Bartlett's: Whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.

"Darkshawled figures of the circumcised, in sackcloth and ashes, [4] stand by the wailing wall..." [Circe]

160 BC

"It certainly pointed a moral, the idol with feet of clay. [2:33]" [Eumeus] "till they discovered to their vast discomfiture that their idol had feet of clay" [Eumeus]

"A DEADHAND (Writes on the wall.) [5:26]" [Circe]

Bartlett's: Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
According to the law of the Medes and Persians.
Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

G = Gifford and Seidman's Ulysses Annotated (2nd ed)

Bartlett's

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Ulysses:
chapters: summary : anchors : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12a 12b 13 14a 14b 15a 15b 15c 15d 16a 16b 17a 17b 18a 18b
notes: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
reference: Bloom : clocktime : prices : schemata : Tower : riddles : errors : Homeric parallels : [B-L Odyssey] : Eolus tropes : parable : Oxen : Circe : 1904 : Thom's : Gold Cup : Seaside Girls : M'appari : acatalectic : search
riddles: overview : Rudy : condom : Gerty : Hades : Strand : murder : Eccles
maps: Ulysses : WRocks : Strand : VR tour : aerial tour : Dublin : Leinster : Ireland : Europe
editing: etexts : lapses : Gabler : capitals : commas : compounds : deletes : punct : typists
drafts: prequel : Proteus : Cyclops : Circe
closereadings: notes : Oxen : Circe

Finnegans Wake:
txt: [I.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 II.1 2 3 4 III.1 2 3 4 IV] : [HTML]
shorter: main : I.1-4 : 5-8 : II.1-2 : 3-4 : III.1-2 : 3 : 4 : IV
reference: thunder : Quinet : waves : [MP3 ALP] : FrALP : ItalALP : ch4 digest : Finn's Hotel : JAJquotes : search
drafts: NewGame : ROC : Kev : B&P : T&I : HCE : Mmlj : Cad : Rev : Pacata
closereadings: notes : ROC : T&S : Kev : B&P : T&I : HCE : Mmlj : Cad
theory: AI : archetypes : WakeOS : notes : origin : Scribble

Portrait:
ref: main : ch1 : ch1 notes : ch2 : 3 : 4 : 5a : 5b : Pinamonti : [notes] : [Cave] : [Gabler]

SHero: outline : quotes : PoA04

Dubliners:
etexts: Sis : Sis04 : Sis05 : Enc : Araby : Evel : After : 2Gall : Board : LitCl : Cntr : Clay : Pain : Ivy : Moth : Grace : Dead
guides: main : [Cave] : [Peng]

Other:
Exiles: Ex1 : 2 : 3

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