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from a private collection A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man "A Suave Philosophy" Daily Express (Dublin, Feb. 6, 1903)Buck Mulligan, in Ulysses (1922)Cranly, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)

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Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him on the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned:
MIntroibo ad altare Dei.

James Joyce

James Joyce (1882–1941), Irish author. Ulysses, ch. 1, "Telemachus," The Corrected Text, ed. Hans Walter Gabler, Random House (1986).

Buck Mulligan opens Ulysses parodying the Catholic mass.

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