Ulysses

by James Joyce

—Thanks, Stephen said. I can’t wear them if they are grey. —He can’t wear them, Buck Mulligan told his face in the mirror. Etiquette is etiquette. He kills his mother but he can’t wear grey trousers.

Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eon of the gods.

A favorite line Ted likes to quote