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• #Ulysse 188
  11 août 2012, par Guillaume Vissac

  He hacked through the fry on the dish and slapped it out on three plates, saying :
  —In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti.

• #Ulysse 4045
  14 mars 2023, par Guillaume Vissac

  — Man delights him not nor woman neither, Stephen said. He returns after a life of absence to that spot of earth where he was born, where he has always been, man and boy, a silent witness and there, his journey of life ended, he plants his mulberrytree in the earth. Then dies. The motion is ended. Gravediggers bury Hamlet père and Hamlet fils. A king and a prince at last in death, with incidental music. And, what though murdered and betrayed, bewept by all frail tender hearts for, Dane or Dubliner, sorrow for the dead is the only husband from whom they refuse to be divorced. If you like the epilogue look long on it : prosperous Prospero, the good man rewarded, Lizzie, grandpa’s lump of love, and nuncle Richie, the bad man taken off by poetic justice to the place where the bad niggers go. Strong curtain. He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible. Maeterlinck says : If Socrates leave his house today he will find the sage seated on his doorstep. If Judas go forth tonight it is to Judas his steps will tend. 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 as they are whom the most Roman of catholics call dio boia, hangman god, is doubtless all in all in all of us, ostler and butcher, and would be bawd and cuckold too but that in the economy of heaven, foretold by Hamlet, there are no more marriages, glorified man, an androgynous angel, being a wife unto himself.

• #Ulysse 1853
  5 mars 2017, par Guillaume Vissac

  As they turned into Berkeley street a streetorgan near the Basin sent over and after them a rollicking rattling song of the halls. Has anybody here seen Kelly ? Kay ee double ell wy. Dead March from Saul. He’s as bad as old Antonio. He left me on my ownio. Pirouette ! The Mater Misericordiae.

• #Ulysse 4019
  16 février 2023, par Guillaume Vissac

  Fabulous artificer. The hawklike man. You flew. Whereto ? Newhaven-Dieppe, steerage passenger. Paris and back. Lapwing. Icarus. Pater, ait. Seabedabbled, fallen, weltering. Lapwing you are. Lapwing be.

• #Ulysse 2581
  9 mars 2019, par Guillaume Vissac

  —The Greek ! he said again. Kyrios ! Shining word ! The vowels the Semite and the Saxon know not. Kyrie ! The radiance of the intellect. I ought to profess Greek, the language of the mind. Kyrie eleison ! The closetmaker and the cloacamaker will never be lords of our spirit. We are liege subjects of the catholic chivalry of Europe that foundered at Trafalgar and of the empire of the spirit, not an imperium, that went under with the Athenian fleets at Aegospotami. Yes, yes. They went under. Pyrrhus, misled by an oracle, made a last attempt to retrieve the fortunes of Greece. Loyal to a lost cause.

• #Ulysse 899
  23 juillet 2014, par Guillaume Vissac

  Allbright he falls, proud lightning of the intellect, Lucifer, dico, qui nescit occasum.

• #Ulysse 607
  4 octobre 2013, par Guillaume Vissac

  He willed me and now may not will me away or ever. A lex eterna stays about Him.

• #Ulysse 3981
  8 janvier 2023, par Guillaume Vissac

  Amplius. Adhuc. Iterum. Postea.

• #Ulysse 2548
  28 janvier 2019, par Guillaume Vissac

  —What was their civilisation ? Vast, I allow : but vile. Cloacae : sewers. The Jews in the wilderness and on the mountaintop said : It is meet to be here. Let us build an altar to Jehovah. The Roman, like the Englishman who follows in his footsteps, brought to every new shore on which he set his foot (on our shore he never set it) only his cloacal obsession. He gazed about him in his toga and he said : It is meet to be here. Let us construct a watercloset.

• #Ulysse 4127
  5 juin 2023, par Guillaume Vissac

  What was that boy’s name again ? Dignam. Yes. Vere dignum et iustum est.