Journal Journal: This one is kinda neat.
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From: Greg McNamara
Date: Tuesday, 25 Jun 1996 12:10:26 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: 7.0471 Q: Shakespeare/Joyce Quote
Comment: Re: SHK 7.0471 Q: Shakespeare/Joyce Quote
For Professor Leo Daugherty:
Near the end chapter 10 of _Ulysses_ (I don't have my H.W. Gabler edition handy
or I would give the line numbers), Haines offers a half-hearted apology to
half-hearted Mulligan for missing Stephen's discussion of _Hamlet_ (he was in
Gill's buying a copy of Hyde's _Lovesongs of Connacht_). It goes like this:
Haines opened his newbought book.
-- I'm sorry, he said. Shakespeare is the happy huntingground of all
minds that have lost their balance.
The onelegged sailor growled at the area of 14 Nelson street:
-- England expects...
Buck Mulligan's primrose waistcoat shook gaily to his laughter.
-- You should see him, he said, when his body loses its balance.
Wandering Aengus I call him.
-- I am sure he has an idee fixe, Haines said, pinching his chin
thoughtfully with thumb and forefinger. Now I am speculating what it
would be likely to be. Such persons always have.
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I hope you find this information helpful. Actually, in Stephen's discussion of
_Hamlet_ in the previous chapter there are several references to the sonnets
which you may find interesting, if not directly relevant to your query.
Greg McNamara
English, West Virginia University