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“What in water did Bloom, waterlover, drawer of water, watercarrier returning to the range, admire?
“Its universality: its democratic equality and constancy to its nature in seeking its own level: its vastness in the ocean of Mercator’s projection: its unplumbed profundity in the Sundam trench of the Pacific exceeding 8000 fathoms: the restlessness of its waves and surface particles visiting in turn all points of its seaboard: the independence of its units: the variability of states of sea: its hydrostatic quiescence in calm: its hydrokinetic turgidity in neap and spring tides: its subsidence after devastation: its sterility in the circumpolar icecaps, arctic and antarctic: its climatic and commercial significance: its preponderance of 3 to 1 over the dry land of the globe: its indisputable hegemony extending in square leagues over all the region below the subequatorial tropic of Capricorn: the multisecular stability of its primeval basin: its luteofulvous bed: its capacity to dissolve and hold in solution all soluble substances including millions of tons of the most precious metals: its slow erosions of peninsulas and islands, its persistent formation of homothetic islands, peninsulas and downwardtending promontories: its alluvial deposits: its weight and volume and density: its imperturbability in lagoons and highland tarns: its gradation of colours in the torrid and temperate and frigid zones: its vehicular ramifications in continental lakecontained streams and confluent oceanflowing rivers with their tributaries and transoceanic currents, gulfstream, north and south equatorial courses: its violence in seaquakes, waterspouts, Artesian wells, eruptions, torrents, eddies, freshets, spates, groundswells, watersheds, waterpartings, geysers, cataracts, whirlpools, maelstroms, inundations, deluges, cloudbursts: its vast circumterrestrial ahorizontal curve: its secrecy in springs, and latent humidity, revealed by rhabdomantic or hygrometric instruments and exemplified by the well by the hole in the wall at Ashtown gate, saturation of air, distillation of dew: the simplicity of its composition, two constituent parts of hydrogen with one constituent part of oxygen: its healing virtues: its buoyancy in the waters of the Dead Sea: its persevering penetrativeness in runnels, gullies, inadequate dams, leaks on shipboard: its properties for cleansing, quenching thirst and fire, nourishing vegetation: its infallibility as paradigm and paragon: its metamorphoses as vapour, mist, cloud, rain, sleet, snow, hail: its strength in rigid hydrants: its variety of forms in loughs and bays and gulfs and bights and guts and lagoons and atolls and archipelagos and sounds and fjords and minches and tidal estuaries and arms of sea: its solidity in glaciers, icebergs, icefloes: its docility in working hydraulic millwheels, turbines, dynamos, electric power stations, bleachworks, tanneries, scutchmills: its utility in canals, rivers, if navigable, floating and graving docks: its potentiality derivable from harnessed tides or watercourses falling from level to level: its submarine fauna and flora (anacoustic, photophobe) numerically, if not literally, the inhabitants of the globe: its ubiquity as constituting 90% of the human body: the noxiousness of its effluvia in lacustrine marshes, pestilential fens, faded flowerwater, stagnant pools in the waning moon.”
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well we all missed Bloomsday again. Hence weeping and wailing and general rending of clobber round my gaff.
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(Some even now call it ‘BluesDay’ in respect of the much-loved Belushi/Ackroyd film with the porkpie hats that was released on the same date thirty years ago).
But back to basics . . . . . . Joyce’s favourite episode in his whole ‘Blue Book of Eccles’ – there’s that colour again – was apparently Chapter 17. Ithaca. The Homecoming. The penultimate chapter of Ulysses and one that asks ‘What parallel courses did Bloom and Stephen follow returning ? ‘
This is definitely the easiest of the lot to read. You can get all the way through it and understand EVERYTHING. It takes the form of catechism you see; a series of questions and answers about the book you’re supposed to have just read. Anyway let’s get on with the main event . . . .
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so why is the Koupparis mother now getting death threats ?
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ok……….
fair enough.I’ll never mention you and Austin in the same sentence ever again.
Take those frilly cuffs and deposit them with pride.,
True cost of inquiry = 3 mill sterling
(Minimum)Amount lined in New Labour Lawyers pockets ( like Mansfield) = half of that.
Other unwarranted deaths in Ulster but without follow-up Inquiry during 1970s ?
Get Real.
Blair announced this whole shebang while he was also apologising for Slavery, and even I was young and intelligent then.
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Google any some suchness same shyte and think yaself better.
(more the person you wish others to see)…….oh yeah
of course . . . . . .. .
but then dare.
Really dare.Dare reveal yourself, in chat, to a complete stranger . . . . . . . .
now we talking . . . . .
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@pikey wrote:
In the light of the news reports that some poor, defenceless babies have been horrifically mauled by an urban fox, is it time that such animal populations are brought under control?
Of course not.
Many babies are, even at this very moment, alertly manning machine-gun turrets and therefore your whole notion is preposterous.
In fact, it may well be time for you to start going easy on the drugs; let’s face it – you’re hardly getting younger and the Austin Powers’ dance impressions are rapidly losing their general mirth.
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Nope.
Only your undoubtedly naff excuse for the unattributed copy/pasting of other people’s words.
