The Art of Tetman Callis

“Lord knows what he does that I don’t know and Im to be slooching around down in the kitchen to get his lordship his breakfast while hes rolled up like a mummy will I indeed did you ever see me running id just like to see myself at it show them attention and they treat […]

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“People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.” – James Joyce, Ulysses Share this…FacebookPinterestTwitterLinkedinemailPrint

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“Sleep reveals the worst side of everyone, children perhaps excepted.” – James Joyce, Ulysses Share this…FacebookPinterestTwitterLinkedinemailPrint

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“Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eon of the gods.” – James Joyce, Ulysses Share this…FacebookPinterestTwitterLinkedinemailPrint

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“Plain and loved, loved for ever, they say. Ugly: no woman thinks she is. Love, lie and be handsome for tomorrow we die.” – James Joyce, Ulysses Share this…FacebookPinterestTwitterLinkedinemailPrint

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“How can people aim guns at each other? Sometimes they go off.” – James Joyce, Ulysses Share this…FacebookPinterestTwitterLinkedinemailPrint

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“Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.” – James Joyce, Ulysses Share this…FacebookPinterestTwitterLinkedinemailPrint

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“Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves. The playwright who wrote the folio of this world and wrote it badly (He gave us light first and the sun two days later), the lord of things […]

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“Fatherhood, in the sense of conscious begetting, is unknown to man. It is a mystical estate, an apostolic succession, from only begetter to only begotten. On that mystery and not on the madonna which the cunning Italian intellect flung to the mob of Europe the church is founded and founded irremovably because founded, like the […]

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“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.” – James Joyce, Ulysses Share this…FacebookPinterestTwitterLinkedinemailPrint

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“Ulysses is an amazing tour de force when one considers the success which has been in the main achieved with such a difficult objective as Joyce set for himself. . . . [It] is not an easy book to read. It is brilliant and dull, intelligible and obscure by turns. In many places it seems […]

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“The first fellow that picked an herb to cure himself had a bit of pluck.” – James Joyce, Ulysses Share this…FacebookPinterestTwitterLinkedinemailPrint

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