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— In this country people sell much more than she ever had and do a roaring trade. Fear not them that sell the body but have not power to buy the soul. She is a bad merchant. She buys dear and sells cheap.
I for one certainly believe climate accounts for character.
All those wretched quarrels, in his humble opinion, stirring up bad blood, from some bump of combativeness or gland of some kind, erroneously supposed to be about a punctilio of honour and a flag, were very largely a question of the money question which was at the back of everything greed and jealousy, people never knowing when to stop.
the fact, namely, that he had shared her bedroom which came out in the witnessbox on oath when a thrill went through the packed court literally electrifying everybody in the shape of witnesses swearing to having witnessed him on such and such a particular date in the act of scrambling out of an upstairs apartment with the assistance of a ladder in night apparel,
encore.
The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius. What additional didactic counsels did he similarly repress?
the same spot, a shock, a shoot, with thought of aught he sought though fraught with nought
Why did absence of light disturb him less than presence of noise?
successful interpretation.
Very gratefully, with grateful appreciation, with sincere appreciative gratitude, in appreciatively grateful sincerity of regret, he declined.
Were these inventions principally intended for an improved scheme of kindergarten?
modern art of advertisement
information or coincidence or intuition? Coincidence.
the frenzy of attachment
A rabbitry and fowlrun, a dovecote, a botanical conservatory, 2 hammocks (lady’s and gentleman’s), a sundial shaded and sheltered by laburnum or lilac trees, an exotically harmonically accorded Japanese tinkle gatebell affixed to left lateral gatepost, a capacious waterbutt, a lawnmower with side delivery and grassbox, a lawnsprinkler with hydraulic hose.
ameliorating the soil, multiplying wisdom, achieving longevity.
pleasure steamers for coastwise navigation
thaumaturgic
What possibility suggested itself? The possibility of exercising virile power of fascination
What reminiscences of a human subject suffering from progressive melancholia did these objects evoke in Bloom?
What idiosyncracies of the narrator were concomitant products of amnesia?
The cause of a brief sharp unforeseen heard loud lone crack emitted by the insentient material of a strainveined timber table.
Why for the observer impressionability in addition to vigour, corporal proportion and commercial ability?
With what antagonistic sentiments were his subsequent reflections affected? Envy, jealousy, abnegation, equanimity. Envy? Of a bodily and mental male organism specially adapted for the superincumbent posture of energetic human copulation and energetic piston and cylinder movement necessary for the complete satisfaction of a constant but not acute concupiscence resident in a bodily and mental female organism, passive but not obtuse.
What moved visibly above the listener’s and the narrator’s invisible thoughts?
hes not a marrying man so somebody better get it out of him
theres many a true word spoken in jest
I could look at him all day long curly head and his shoulders his finger up for you to listen theres real beauty and poetry for you I often felt I wanted to kiss him all over also his lovely young cock there so simple I wouldnt mind taking him in my mouth if nobody was looking as if it was asking you to suck it so clean and white he looks with his boyish face
a woman whatever she does she knows where to stop