Professor Bloom is a finished example of the new womanly man. His moral nature is simple and lovable. Many have found him a dear m...an, a dear person. He is a rather quaint fellow on the whole, coy though not feebleminded in the medical sense. He has written a really beautiful letter, a poem in itself, to the court missionary of the Reformed Priests' Protection Society which clears up everything. He is practically a total abstainer and I can affirm that he sleeps on a straw litter and eats the most Spartan food, cold dried grocer's peas. He wears a hairshirt of pure Irish manufacture winter and summer and scourges himself every Saturday. He was, I understand, at one time a firstclass misdemeanant in Glencree reformatory. Another report states that he was a very posthumous child. I appeal for clemency in the name of the most sacred word our vocal organs have ever been called upon to speak. He is about to have a baby.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed;... Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white--then melts for ever;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
--He's a cultured allroundman, Bloom is, he said seriously. He's not one of your common or garden ... you know ... There's a touch... of the artist about old Bloom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To what good, in the alleys of the lilacs, O caliper, do you scratch your buttocks... And tell the divine ingénue, your companion, That this bloom is the bloom of soap And this fragrance the fragrance of vegetal?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloo...m is gone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"... The state's one function is to give. The bud must bloom till blowsy blown... Its petals loosen and are strown; And that's a fate it can't evade Unless 'twould rather wilt than fade."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
--But it's no use, says he. Force, hatred, history, all that. That's not life for men and women, insult and hatred. And everybody ...knows that it's the very opposite of that that is really life. MWhat? says Alf. MLove, says Bloom. I mean the opposite of hatred.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »