Ulysses by James Joyce
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page 237 of 1080 (21%)
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waggons, mailvans, private broughams, aerated mineral water floats with
rattling crates of bottles, rattled, rolled, horsedrawn, rapidly. WHAT?--AND LIKEWISE--WHERE? --But what do you call it? Myles Crawford asked. Where did they get the plums? VIRGILIAN, SAYS PEDAGOGUE. SOPHOMORE PLUMPS FOR OLD MAN MOSES. --Call it, wait, the professor said, opening his long lips wide to reflect. Call it, let me see. Call it: DEUS NOBIS HAEC OTIA FECIT. --No, Stephen said. I call it A PISGAH SIGHT OF PALESTINE OR THE PARABLE OF THE PLUMS. --I see, the professor said. He laughed richly. --I see, he said again with new pleasure. Moses and the promised land. We gave him that idea, he added to J. J. O'Molloy. |
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