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To: Tommaso who wrote (74284)2/7/2000 5:39:00 PM
From: Neocon  Respond to of 108807
 
From the Penelope section, the very end of Ulysses:

I knew I could always get round him and I gave him all the pleasure I could leading him on till he asked me to say yes and I wouldnt answer first only looked out over the sea and the sky I was thinking of so many things he didnt know of Mulvey and Mr Stanhope and Hester and father and old captain Groves and the sailors playing all birds fly and I say stoop and washing up dishes they called it on the pier and the sentry in front of the governors house with the thing round his white helmet poor devil half roasted and the Spanish girls laughing in their shawls and their tall combs and the auctions in the morning the Greeks and the jews and the Arabs and the devil knows who else from all the ends of Europe and Duke street and the fowl market all clucking outside Larby Sharans and the poor donkeys slipping half asleep and the vague fellows in the cloaks asleep in the shade on the steps and the big wheels of the carts of the bulls and the old castle thousands of years old yes and those handsome Moors all in white and turbans like kings asking you to sit down in their little bit of a shop and Ronda with the old windows of the posadas glancing eyes a lattice hid for her lover to kiss the iron and the wineshops half open at night and the castanets and the night we missed the boat at Algeciras the watchman going about serene with his lamp and O that awful deepdown torrent O and the sea the sea crimson sometimes like fire and the glorious sunsets and the figtrees in the Alameda gardens yes and all the queer little streets and pink and blue and yellow houses and the rosegardens and the jessamine and geraniums and cactuses and Gibraltar as a girl where I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.

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To: Tommaso who wrote (74284)2/7/2000 6:06:00 PM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 108807
 
Since I have not had a clarification, I thought I would start by saying that it is actually a peculiar wedding gift, since the reverie involves other men, and a sense of having chosen her mate on a whim....The cadences make it poetic, but only if you know how to read it, otherwise, one wouldn't think of it as a poem. However, if you read it aloud sonorously, it is much like a Dylan Thomas poem, say "Fern Hill".....Is this the sort of commentary you were looking for?



To: Tommaso who wrote (74284)2/7/2000 6:15:00 PM
From: epicure  Respond to of 108807
 
Hi there
Well as you say- it must be Molly Bloom's soliloquy from Ulysses. Maybe this person has a crush on you? Or maybe they just really want a copy of the soliloquy- so here one is, although you probably already found one.

It is nice to see you again.

I hope all is well with you.

O that awful deepdown torrent O and the sea the sea crimson
sometimes like fire and the glorious sunsets and the figtrees in the Alameda gardens yes and all the queer little streets and pink
and blue and yellow houses and the rosegardens and the jessamine and geraniums and cactuses and Gibraltar as a girl where I
was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and
how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask
again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew
him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.