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To those who create themselves wits at the cost of feminine delicacy (a habit of mind which he never did hold with) to them he would concede neither to bear the name nor to herit the tradition of a proper breeding

While Leopold Bloom is a creep he also invented feminism. Haters just hate to see a girlboss winning

Talis ac tanta depravatio hujus seculi, O quirites, ut matres familiarum nostrooe lascivas cujuslibet semiviri libici titillationes testibus ponderosis atque excelsis erectionibus centurionum Romanorum magnopere anteponunt

Im fucking dead

inkhorns,
arrows, loaves, cruses, fetters, axes, trees, bridges, babes in a bathtub, shells,
wallets, shears, keys, dragons, lilies, buckshot, beards, hogs, lamps, bellows,
beehives, soupladles, stars, snakes, anvils, boxes of vaseline, bells, crutches,
forceps, stags' horns, watertight boots, hawks, millstones, eyes on a dish, wax
candles, aspergills, unicorns.

And of course Bloom had to have his say too about if a fellow had a rower’s heart violent exercise was bad. I declare to my antimacassar if you took up a straw from the bloody floor and if you said to Bloom: Look at, Bloom. Do you see that straw? That’s a straw. Declare to my aunt he’d talk about it for an hour so he would and talk steady.

I feel called out

Okay Sirens was officially the most tedious of the chapters. I didn't really enjoy it that much tbh

It soared, a bird, it held its flight, a swift pure cry, soar silver orb it leaped
serene, speeding, sustained, to come, don’t spin it out too long long breath he
breath long life, soaring high, high resplendent, aflame, crowned, high in the
effulgence symbolistic, high, of the etherial bosom, high, of the high vast
irradiation everywhere all soaring all around about the all, the
endlessnessnessness

10-1:01:03

We walk
through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives,
widows, brothers–in–love, but always meeting ourselves