Ulysses

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Shut your eyes and see.

James Joyce

Ulysses

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Topic

Perception Observation

Author

James Joyce

Source

Ulysses

Medium

Novel

Genre

Modernist literature

Statement Type

Orders and commands Zen koan

Language

English

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Joyce, James. Ulysses. Shakespeare and Company, 1922, bk. 1, ch. 3.

Current Citation

Joyce, James. The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes, edited by Catherine Flynn. Cambridge University Press, 2022, ch. 3.

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce

Ulysses

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Topic

Learning from mistakes Mistakes Genius

Speaker

Stephen Dedalus

Author

James Joyce

Source

Ulysses

Medium

Novel

Genre

Modernist literature

Language

English

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Joyce, James. Ulysses. Shakespeare and Company, 1922, bk. 2, ch. 9.

Current Citation

Joyce, James. The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes, edited by Catherine Flynn. Cambridge University Press, 2022, ch. 9.

The sea... The snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.

James Joyce

Ulysses

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Topic

Ocean and sea

Speaker

Buck Mulligan

Author

James Joyce

Source

Ulysses

Medium

Novel

Genre

Modernist literature

Language

English

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Joyce, James. Ulysses. Shakespeare and Company, 1922, bk. 1, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Joyce, James. The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes, edited by Catherine Flynn. Cambridge University Press, 2022, ch. 1.

History...is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

James Joyce

Ulysses

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Topic

History

Speaker

Stephen Dedalus

Author

James Joyce

Source

Ulysses

Medium

Novel

Genre

Modernist literature

Language

English

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Joyce, James. Ulysses. Shakespeare and Company, 1922, bk. 1, ch. 2.

Current Citation

Joyce, James. The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes, edited by Catherine Flynn. Cambridge University Press, 2022, ch. 2.