As you are now so once were we.
James JoyceIt grieved him plaguily, he said, to see the nuptial couch defrauded of its dearest pledges: and to reflect upon so many agreeable females with rich jointures, a prey for the vilest bonzes, who hide their flambeau under a bushel in an uncongenial cloister or lose their womanly bloom in the embraces of some unaccountable muskin when they might multiply the inlets of happiness, sacrificing the inestimable jewel of their sex when a hundred pretty fellows were at hand to caress, this, he assured them, made his heart weep.
James JoyceTo discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.
James JoyceTag: life art unfettered
They used to drive a stake of wood through his heart in the grave. As if it wasn’t broken already. Yet sometimes they repent too late.
Ulysses
The intellectual imagination! With me all or not at all. NON SERVIAM!
James JoyceA dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike, leaving his mind serene and dutiful towards her again, he was made aware dimly and without regret of a first noiseless sundering of their lives.
James JoyceTag: growing-up mother separation
Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.
James JoyceIn woman's womb word is made flesh but in the spirit of the maker all flesh that passes becomes the word that shall not pass away. This is the postcreation.
James JoyceIf anyone thinks that I amn't divine
He'll get no free drinks when I'm making the wine
But have to drink water and wish it were plain
That I make when the wine becomes water again.
Tag: humor
[...] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.
James JoyceTag: inspirational to-think-about
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