1 Telemachus
Stephen, an elbow rested on the jagged granite, leaned his palm against his brow and gazed at the graying edge of his shiny black coatsleeve. Pain, that was not yet the pain of love, fretted his heart. (1.100)
- Very cinematic; an exterior desc that is yet interior too.
- Grief from loss, maybe not from love, but from Guilt
- He is literally haunted by his mother
- Free indirect discourse
It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked lookingglass of a servant. (1.145)
I am a servant of two masters, Stephen said, an English and an Italian. … And a third, Stephen said, there is who wants me for odd jobs 1.637 A servant of two masters
1.649 history is to blame
An Irishman must think like that, I daresay. We feel in England that we have treated you rather unfairly. It seems history is to blame.
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1.743 Usurper 1.743
2 Nestor
2.47 History was a tale
For them too history was a tale like any other too often heard, their land a pawnshop.
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2.387 History is a nightmare
“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
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2.253 I paid my way
I paid my way, I never borrowed a shilling in my life. Can you feel that? I owe nothing. Can you?
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- This elicits a Guilt which Stephen feels as he is indebted to so many others
- Earlier, he misquotes Iago for Shakespeare, “Put but money in thy purse”