Quotation by James Joyce

O thanks be to the great God I got somebody to give me what I badly wanted to put some heart up into me youve no chances at all in this place like you used long ago I wish somebody would write me a loveletter....
James Joyce (1882–1941), Irish author. Ulysses, ch. 18, "Penelope," The Corrected Text, ed. Hans Walter Gabler, Random House (1986).

Molly Bloom thinks about what Joyce, after a fashion, did: write her a kind of love letter.
Surprise me with a
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