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Ulysses

One of the most important works of the Modernist era, James Joyce’s “Ulysses” was originally published serially in the American journal “The Little Review” from March 1918 to December 1920. Subsequently published as a book in 1922, “Ulysses” chronicles th

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“Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.”

— James Joyce, amazon.com

Tagged: Banned Books

“Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.”

— James Joyce, amazon.com

Tagged: first lines of books

“It's in the silence after you feel you hear.”

— James Joyce, amazon.com

Tagged: Soothing Language, Where The Words Come From

“Cruel it seems. Let people get fond of each other: lure them on. Then tear asunder. Death.”

— James Joyce, amazon.com

Tagged: Death, Loss, Love is Loss

“Day by day: night by night: lifted, flooded and let fall. Lord, they are weary; and, whispered to, they sigh. Saint Ambrose heard it, sigh of leaves and waves, waiting, awaiting the fullness of their times, diebus ac noctibus iniurias patiens ingemiscit. To no end gathered; vainly then released, for…”

— James Joyce, Stephen Dedalus, amazon.com

Tagged: Time

“God becomes man becomes fish becomes barnacle goose becomes featherbed mountain.”

— James Joyce, Stephen Dedalus, amazon.com

Tagged: Baroque, Creation

“Who chose this face for me?”

— James Joyce, Stephen Dedalus, amazon.com

Tagged: Identity, Where Do We Come From?, Questions

“The cords of all link back, strandentwining cable of all flesh.”

— James Joyce, amazon.com

Tagged: Relationalism

“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”

— James Joyce, Stephen Dedalus, amazon.com

Tagged: History, Nightmare