James Joyce: Ulysses (unabridged)

Ulysses: 'The key scraped round harshly twice and, when the heavy door had been set ajar, welcome light and bright air entered.'

Ulysses: 'He turned to Stephen and said: Seriously Dedalus. I'm stony.'

Ulysses: 'Buck Mulligan at once put on a blithe broadly smiling face.'

Ulysses: 'Two men stood at the verge of the cliff, watching: businessman, boatman.'

Ulysses: 'You, Cochrane, what city sent for him? Tarentum, Sir.'

Ulysses: 'Talbot slid his closed book into his satchel.'

Ulysses: 'A hasty step over the stone porch and in the corridor. Blowing out his rare moustache Mr Deasy halted at the table.'

Ulysses: 'Shouts rang shrill from the boys' playfield and a whirring whistle. Again: a goal.'

Ulysses: 'Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more, thought through my eyes.'

Ulysses: 'Morrow nephew...'

Ulysses: 'You were going to do wonders, what?'

Ulysses: 'A point, live dog, grew into sight...'

Ulysses: 'His lips lipped and mouthed fleshless lips of air...'

Ulysses: 'Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls.'

Ulysses: 'He approached Larry O'Rourkes...'

Ulysses: 'Grey horror seared his flesh.'

Ulysses: 'He felt here and there.'

Ulysses: 'The cat, having cleaned all her fur, returned to the meatstained paper.'

Ulysses: 'By lorries along Sir John Waterson's quay, Mr Bloom walked soberly...'

Ulysses: 'Mr Bloom gazed across the road at the outsider drawn up before the door of the Grosvenor.'

Ulysses: 'Mr Bloom stood at the corner...'

Ulysses: 'An incoming train clanked heavily above his head, coach after coach.'

Ulysses: 'Better be shoving along.'

Ulysses: 'Martin Cunningham, first, poked his silkhatted head into the creaking carriage and, entering deftly, seated himself.'

Ulysses: 'Martin Cunningham began to brush away crustcrumbs from under his thighs.'

Ulysses: 'He clasped his hands between his knees and, satisfied, sent his vacant glance over their faces.'

Ulysses: 'Dead side of the street this.'

Ulysses: 'The carriage galloped round a corner: stopped.'

Ulysses: 'How are you Simon? Ned Lambert said softly, clasping hands.'

Ulysses: 'Corny Kelleher fell into step at their side.'

Ulysses: 'The caretaker put the papers in his pocket.'

Ulysses: 'A seventh gravedigger came beside Mr Bloom to take up an idle spade.'

Ulysses: 'IN THE HEART OF THE HIBERNIAN METROPOLIS'

Ulysses: 'WE SEE THE CANVASSER AT WORK'

Ulysses: 'AND IT WAS THE FEAST OF THE PASSOVER'

Ulysses: 'WHAT WETHERUP SAID'

Ulysses: 'EXIT BLOOM'

Ulysses: 'Lenehan said to all:'

Ulysses: 'YOU CAN DO IT'

Ulysses: 'RHYMES AND REASONS'

Ulysses: 'IMPROMPTU'

Ulysses: 'LET US HOPE'

Ulysses: 'K.M.A.'

Ulysses: 'PINEAPPLE ROCK, LEMON PLATT, BUTTER SCOTCH. A SUGARSTICKY girl shovelling scoopfuls of creams for a Christian brother.'

Ulysses: 'He halted again, and bought from the old applewoman two Banbury cakes for a penny...'

Ulysses: 'Windy night that was I went to fetch her...'

Ulysses: 'A bony form strode along the curbstone from the river...'

Ulysses: 'Before the huge high door of the Irish house of parliament a flock of pigeons flew.'

Ulysses: 'Of the twoheaded octopus, one of whose heads is the head upon which the ends of the world have forgotten to come...'

Ulysses: 'He passed, dallying, the windows of Brown Thomas, silk mercers.'

Ulysses: 'He entered Davy Byrne's. Moral pub. He doesn't chat.'

Ulysses: 'Mr Bloom, champing, standing, looked upon his sigh. Nosey numskull.'

Ulysses: 'His downcast eyes followed the silent veining of the oaken slab.'

Ulysses: 'Mr Bloom walked towards Dawson Street, his tongue brushing his teeth smooth.'

Ulysses: 'With a gentle finger he felt ever so slowly the hair combed back above his ears.'

Ulysses: 'Urbane, to comfort them, the quaker librarian purred...'

Ulysses: 'Unsheathe your dagger definitions.'

Ulysses: 'How now, sirrah, that pound he lent you when you were hungry?'

Ulysses: 'Young Colum and Starkey. George Roberts is doing the commercial part.'

Ulysses: 'Good Bacon: gone musty. Shakespeare Bacon's wild oats.'

Ulysses: 'I came through the museum, Buck Mulligan said. Was he here?'

Ulysses: 'We want to hear more, John Eglinton decided with Mr Best's approval.'

Ulysses: 'The sense of beauty leads us astray, said beautifulinsadness Best to ugling Eglinton.'

Ulysses: 'What the hell are you driving at? I know. Shut up blast you! I have reasons.'

Ulysses: 'John Eglinton touched the foil. Come, he said. Let us hear what you have to say of Richard and Edmund.'

Ulysses: 'Those who are married, Mr Best, douce herald, said, all save one, shall live.'

Ulysses: 'The superior, the very reverend John Conmee S.J., reset his smooth watch in his interior pocket as he came down the presbytery steps.'

Ulysses: 'It was a peaceful day.'

Ulysses: 'Katey and Boody Dedalus shoved in the door of the closesteaming kitchen.'

Ulysses: 'Miss Dune hid the Capel Street library copy of The Woman in White far back in her drawer...'

Ulysses: 'Tom Rochford took the top disk from the pile he clasped against his claret waistcoat.'

Ulysses: 'Mr Bloom turned over idly pages of The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, then of Aristotle's Masterpiece.'

Ulysses: 'The lacquey by the door of Dillon's auctionrooms shook his handbell twice again and viewed himself in the chalked mirror of the cabinet.'

Ulysses: 'Stephen Dedalus watched through the webbed window the lapidary's fingers prove a timedulled chain.'

Ulysses: 'Hello, Simon, Father Cowley said. How are things?'

Ulysses: 'The youngster will be all right, Martin Cunningham said, as they passed out of the Castleyard gate.'

Ulysses: 'As they trod across the thick carpet Buck Mulligan whispered behind his panama to Haines.'

Ulysses: 'William Humble, earl of Dudley, and Lady Dudley, accompanied by lieutenantcolonel Hesseltine, drove out after luncheon from...'

Ulysses: 'BRONZE BY GOLD HEARD THE HOOFIRONS, STEELYRINGING Impethnthn thnthnthn.'

Ulysses: 'Yes, bronze from anear, by gold from afar, heard steel from anear, hoofs ring from afar, and heard steelhoofs ringhoof ringsteel.'

Ulysses: 'Gaily Miss Douce polished a tumbler, trilling: O, Idolores, queen of the eastern seas!'

Ulysses: 'Blazes Boylan's smart tan shoes creaked on the barfloor where he strode.'

Ulysses: 'Bald Pat in the doorway met tealess gold returning.'

Ulysses: 'Miss Douce, engaging, Lydia Douce, bowed to suave solicitor, George Lidwell, gentleman, entering. Good afternoon.'

Ulysses: 'Through the hush of air a voice sang to them, low, not rain, not leaves in murmur...'

Ulysses: 'Bloom ungyved his crisscrossed hands and with slack fingers plucked the slender catgut thong.'

Ulysses: 'He blotted quick on pad of Pat. Envel. Address. Just copy out of paper.'

Ulysses: 'Jog jig jogged stopped.'

Ulysses: 'Bless me father, Dollard the croppy cried. Bless me and let me go.'

Ulysses: 'Far. Far. Far. Far. Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap.'

Ulysses: 'I WAS JUST PASSING THE TIME OF DAY WITH OLD TROY OF THE DMP at the corner of Arbour Hill there...'

Ulysses: 'So we turned into Barney Kiernan's and there sure enough was the citizen up in the corner...'

Ulysses: 'So anyhow Terry brought the three points Joe was standing...'

Ulysses: 'In the darkness spirit hands were felt to flutter...'

Ulysses: 'So they started talking about capital punishment and of course Bloom comes out with the why and the wherefore and all the codology of...'

Ulysses: 'The last farewell was affecting in the extreme.'

Ulysses: 'So then the citizens begin talking about the Irish language and the corporation meeting and all to that...'

Ulysses: 'So Bon Doran comes lurching around asking Bloom to tell Mrs Dignam he was sorry for her trouble...'

Ulysses: 'Talking about violent exercise, says Alf, were you at the Keogh-Bennett match?'

Ulysses: 'Did you see that bloody lunatic Breen round there, says Alf? U.p: up.'

Ulysses: 'Those are nice things, says the citizen, coming over here to Ireland filing the country with bugs.'

Ulysses: 'As treeless as Portugal we'll be soon, says John Wyse, or Heliogoland with its one tree if something is not done to reaforrest the land.'

Ulysses: 'But, says Bloom, isn't discipline the same everywhere? I mean wouldn't it be the same here if you put force against force?'

Ulysses: 'And I belong to a race too, says Bloom, that is hated and persecuted. Also now. This very moment. This instant.'

Ulysses: 'So anyhow when I got back they were at it dingdong...'

Ulysses: 'And at the sound of the sacring bell, headed by a crucifer with acolytes...'

Ulysses: 'And begob he got as far as the door and they holding him and he bawls out of him: - Three cheers for Israel!'

Ulysses: 'THE SUMMER EVENING HAD BEGUN TO FOLD THE WORLD IN ITS mysterious embrace.'

Ulysses: 'Gerty MacDowell who was seated near her companions, lost in thought, gazing far away into the distance, was in very truth as fair...'

Ulysses: 'Edy Boardman asked Tommy Caffrey was he done and he said yes, so then she buttoned up his little knickerbockers for him and told him to...'

Ulysses: 'The twins were now playing in the most approved brotherly fashion...'

Ulysses: 'The exasperating little brats of twins began to quarrel again and Jacky threw the ball out towards the sea and they both ran after it.'

Ulysses: 'Then they sang the second verse of the Tantum ergo and Canon O'Hanlon got up again and censed the Blessed Sacrament...'

Ulysses: 'Canon O'Hanlon put the Blessed Sacrament back into the tabernacle and the choir sang Laudate Dominum omnes gentes...'

Ulysses: 'Mr Bloom watched her as she limped away. Poor Girl!'

Ulysses: 'There she is with them down there for the fireworks. My fireworks. Up like a rocket, down like a stick.'

Ulysses: 'Wonder how is she feeling in that region. Shame all put on before third person. More put out about a hole in her stocking.'

Ulysses: 'All quiet on Howth now. The distant hills seem. Where we. The rhododendrons. I am a fool perhaps.'

Ulysses: 'Better not stick here all night like a limpet. This weather makes you dull.'

Ulysses: 'Deshil Holles Eamus. Deshil Holles Eamus. Deshil Holles Eamus.'

Ulysses: 'The man that was come into the house then spoke to the nursing-woman and he asked her how it fared with the woman that lay there in...'

Ulysses: 'For they were right witty scholars. And he heard their aresouns each gen other as touching birth and righteousness...'

Ulysses: 'To be short this passage was scarce by when Master Dixon of Mary in Eccles, goodly grinning, asked young Stephen what was the reason...'

Ulysses: 'But was not young Basthard's fear vanquished by Calmer's words?'

Ulysses: 'With this came up Lenehan to the feet of the table to say how the letter was in that night's gazette and he made a show to find it...'

Ulysses: 'Our worthy acquaintance, Mr Malachi Mulligan, now appeared in the doorway as the students were finishing their apologue accompanied...'

Ulysses: 'Here the listener, who was none other than the Scotch students, a little fume of a fellow, blond as tow...'

Ulysses: 'Accordingly he broke his mind to his neighbour, saying that, to express his notion of the thing, his opinion...'

Ulysses: 'But Malachias' tale began to freeze them with horror. He conjured up the scene before them.'

Ulysses: 'The voices blend and fuse in clouded silence: silence that is the infinite of space...'

Ulysses: 'However, as a matter of fact though, the preposterous surmise about him being in some description of a doldrums or other mesmerised...'

Ulysses: 'Meanwhile the skill and patience of the physician had brought about a happy accouchement.'

Ulysses: 'Mark this farther and remember. The end comes suddenly.'

Ulysses: 'Hurroo! Collar the leather, youngun. Roun wi the nappy.'

Ulysses: 'The Mabbot street entrance of nighttown, before which stretches an uncobbled tramsiding set with skeleton tracks, red and green...'

Ulysses: 'BLOOM: Stitch in my side. Why did I run?'

Ulysses: 'MARION: Welly? Mrs Marion from this out, my dear man, when you speak to me.'

Ulysses: "MRS BREEN: The dear dead days beyond recall. Love's Old Sweet Song.'

Ulysses: '(Bloom passes. Cheap whores, singly, coupled, shawled, dishevelled, call from lanes, doors, corners.)'

Ulysses: 'BLOOM: Gentlement of the jury, let me explain.'

Ulysses: '(The crossexamination proceeds re Bloom and the bucket. A large bucket. Bloom himself.)'

Ulysses: 'MRS BELLINGHAM: Tan his breech well, the upstart! Write the stars and stripes on it!'

Ulysses: '(The portly figure of John O'Connell, caretaker, stands forth, holding a bunch of keys tied with crape.)'

Ulysses: 'LATE LORD MAYOR HARRINGTON: (In scarlet robe with mace, gold mayoral chain and large white silk scaft.)'

Ulysses: 'BLOOM: My beloved subjects, a new era is about to dawn.'

Ulysses: 'O MADDEN BURKE; Free fox in a free henroost'

Ulysses: '(Bloom walks on a net, covers his left eye with his left ear, passes through several walls...)'

Ulysses: 'ZOE: Ladies first, gentlemen after.'

Ulysses: 'THE GRAMOPHONE: Jerusalem! Open your gates and sing. Hosanna...'

Ulysses: '(A skeleton judashand strangles the light. The green light wanes to mauve. The gasjet wails whistling.)'

Ulysses: 'BLOOM: (Absently.) Ocularly woman's bivalve case is worse. Always open sesame.'

Ulysses: 'VIRAG: (Agueshaken, profuse yellow spawn foaming over his bony epileptic lips.) She sold lovephiltres...'

Ulysses: '(The door opens. Bella Cohen, a massive whoremistress enters.)'

Ulysses: 'BELLO: (Coaxingly.) Come, ducky dear. I want a word with you, darling, just to administer correction.'

Ulysses: 'BELLO: (Whistles loudly.) Say! What was the most revolting piece of obscenity in all your career of crime?'

Ulysses: 'A VOICE: Swear! (Bloom clenches his fists and crawls forward, a bowie knife between his teeth.)'

Ulysses: 'THE WATERFALL: Poulaphouca Poulaphouca Phoucaphouca Phoucaphouca.'

Ulysses: '(The figure of Bella Cohen stands before him.) BELLA: You'll know me the next time.'

Ulysses: 'LYNCH: (Embracing Kitty on the sofa, chants deeply.) Dona nobis pacem.'

Ulysses: '(Stephen and Bloom gaze in the mirror. The face of William Shakespeare, beardless, appears there...)'

Ulysses: '(A dark horse, riderless, bolts like a phantom past the winningpost, his mane moonfoaming, his eyeballs stars.)'

Ulysses: 'STEPHEN: Pas Seu! (He wheels Kitty into Lynch's arms...)'

Ulysses: 'THE WHORES: (Jammed in the doorway, pointing.) Down there.'

Ulysses: 'DOLLY GRAY: (From here balcony waves her handkerchief, giving the sign of the heroine of Jericho.)'

Ulysses: 'PRIVATE CARR: Here. What are you saying about my king?'

Ulysses: 'BLOOM: (Runs to Lynch.) Can't you get him away?'

Ulysses: 'THE WATCH: (Saluting together.) Night gentlemen.'

Ulysses: 'Preparatory to anything else Mr Bloom brushed off the greater bulk of the shavings and handed Stephen the hat and ashplant...'

Ulysses: 'Someone saluted you, Mr Bloom said.'

Ulysses: 'The pair parted company and Stephen rejoined Mr Bloom...'

Ulysses: 'Mr Bloom and Stephen entered the cabman's shelter, an unpretentious wooden structure, where, prior to then, he had rarely, if ever,...'

Ulysses: 'A silence ensued till Mr Bloom for agreeableness' sake just felt like asking him whether it was for a marksmanship competition like...'

Ulysses: 'Mr Bloom, without evincing surprise, unostentatiously turned over the card to peruse the partially obliterated address and postmark.'

Ulysses: 'Tired, seemingly, he ceased.'

Ulysses: 'The face of a streetwalker, glazed and haggard under a black straw hat, peered askew round the door of the shelter...'

Ulysses: 'Mind you, I'm not saying that it's all a pure invention, he resumed.'

Ulysses: 'All, meantime, were loudly lamenting the falling off in Irish shipping, coastwise and foreign as well, which was all part and parcel of...'

Ulysses: 'He turned a long you are wrong gaze on Stephen of timorous dark pride at the soft impeachment...'

Ulysses: 'At this pertinent suggestion, Mr Bloom, to change the subject, looked down...'

Ulysses: 'While the other was reading it on page two Bloom (to give him for the nonce his new misnomer) whiled away a few odd leisure moments...'

Ulysses: 'Just bears out what I was saying, he with glowing bosom said to Stephen. And, if I don't greatly mistake, whe was Spanish too.'

Ulysses: 'On the other hand what incensed him more inwardly was the blatant jokes of the cabmen and so on...'

Ulysses: 'Anyhow, upon weighing the pros and cons, getting on for one as it was, it was high time to be retiring for the night.'

Ulysses: 'Accordingly he passed his left arm in Stephen's right and led him on accordingly.'

Ulysses: 'These opening bars he sang and translated extempore.'

Ulysses: 'What Parallel courses did Bloom and Stephen follow returning?'

Ulysses: 'What discrete succession of images did Stephen meanwhile perceive?'

Ulysses: 'Having set the half filled kettle on the now burning coals, why did he return to the stillflowing tap?'

Ulysses: 'What attracted his attention lying on the apron of the dresser?'

Ulysses: 'What acrostic upon the abbreviation of his first name had he (kinetic poet) sent to Miss Marion Tweedy on the 14 February 1888?'

Ulysses: 'Were there no means still remaining to him to achieve the rejuvenation which these reminiscences divulged to a younger companion...'

Ulysses: 'What suggested scene was then constructed by Stephen?'

Ulysses: 'What system had proved more effective?'

Ulysses: 'In what common study did their mutual reflections merge?'

Ulysses: 'How did the father of Millicent receive this second part?'

Ulysses: 'What proposal did Bloom, diambulist, father of Milly, somnambulist, make to Stephen, noctambulist?'

Ulysses: 'In what order of precedence, with what attendant ceremony was the exodus from the house of bondage to the wilderness of inhabitation...?'

Ulysses: 'His (Bloom's) logical conclusion, having weighed the matter and allowing for possible error?'

Ulysses: 'What sound accompanied the union of their tangent, the disunion of their (respectively) centrifugal and centripetal hands?'

Ulysses: 'With what sensations did Bloom contemplate in rotation these objects?'

Ulysses: 'What among other data did the second volume of the work in question contain?'

Ulysses: 'What additional attractions might the grounds contain?'

Ulysses: 'Prove that he had loved rectitude from his earliest youth.'

Ulysses: 'Positing what protasis would the contraction for such several schemes become a natural and necessary apodosis?'

Ulysses: 'Quote the textual terms in which the prospectus claimed advantages for this thaumaturgic remedy.'

Ulysses: 'What did the 2nd drawer contain?'

Ulysses: 'What object offered partial consolation for these reminiscences?'

Ulysses: 'What advantages were possessed by an occupied, as distinct from an unoccupied bed?'

Ulysses: 'What did his limbs, when gradually extended, encounter?'

Ulysses: 'In what final satisfaction did these antagonistic sentiments and reflections, reduced to their simplest forms, converge?'

Ulysses: 'YES BECAUSE HE NEVER DID A THING LIKE THAT BEFORE AS ASK TO get his breakfast in bed with a couple of eggs...'

Ulysses: 'why can't you kiss a man without going and marrying him...'

Ulysses: 'they're all so different Boylan talking about the shape of my foot...'

Ulysses: 'I hate people who come at all hous answer the door you think it's the vegetables then it's somebody...'

Ulysses: 'yes and half the girls in Gibraltar never wore them either naked as God made them...'

Ulysses: 'sure you can't get in this world without style all going in food and rent...'

Ulysses: 'frseeeeeeeefronnnng train somewhere whistling the strength those engines have in them like big giants...'

Ulysses: 'the days like years not a letter from a living soul except the odd few I posted to myself...'

Ulysses: 'he was looking at me I had that white blouse on open at the front to encourage him as much as I could without too openly...'

Ulysses: 'that was a relief wherever you be let your wind go free...'

Ulysses: 'I'm too honest as a matter of fact I suppose he thinks I'm finished out and laid on the shelf...'

Ulysses: 'who knows is there something the matter with my insides or have I something growing in me...'

Ulysses: 'wait there's Georges church bells wait 3 quarters the hour wait...'

Ulysses: 'wait by god yes wait yes hold on he was on the cards this morning when I laid out the deck...'

Ulysses: 'no that's no way for him he no manners nor no refinement nor no nothing...'

Ulysses: 'O I'm not going to think myself into the glooms about that any more...'

Ulysses: 'God of heaven there's nothing like nature the wild mountains then the sea and the waves rushing...'