Joyce's Ulysses Concordance

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1. Telemachus

[58] We must go to Athens. Will you come if I can get the aunt to fork out

[78] Dedalus, you have the real Oxford manner. He can’t make you out. O, my

[108] snotgreen. You can almost taste it, can’t you?

[172] —Thanks, Stephen said. I can’t wear them if they are grey.

[174] —He can’t wear them, Buck Mulligan told his face in the mirror.

[175] Etiquette is etiquette. He kills his mother but he can’t wear grey

[276] —What? Where? I can’t remember anything. I remember only ideas and

[371] That can enjoy

[486] —We can drink it black, Stephen said thirstily. There’s a lemon in

[498] I can’t go fumbling at the damned eggs.

[533] —Can you recall, brother, is mother Grogan’s tea and water pot

[665] —Ask nothing more of me, sweet. All I can give you I give.

[820] —It has waited so long, Stephen said listlessly, it can wait longer.

[841] —The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue of Dedalus, he said.

[959] —I can quite understand that, he said calmly. An Irishman must think

2. Nestor

[1190] possibilities they have ousted. But can those have been possible seeing

[1252] —Who can answer a riddle? Stephen asked.

[1318] —Can you do them yourself? Stephen asked.

[1347] —Do you understand now? Can you work the second for yourself?

[1456] now. Three nooses round me here. Well? I can break them in this instant

[1486] —I paid my way. I never borrowed a shilling in my life. Can you feel

[1487] that? I owe nothing. Can you?

[1538] —That reminds me, Mr Deasy said. You can do me a favour, Mr Dedalus,

[1583] the foot and mouth disease. Just look through it. There can be no two

[1604] the next outbreak they will put an embargo on Irish cattle. And it can

[1633] —They sinned against the light, Mr Deasy said gravely. And you can see

[1708] —Yes, Mr Deasy said. You have two copies there. If you can have them

[1719] see if you can get it into your two papers. What are they?

3. Proteus

[1784] in? Diaphane, adiaphane. If you can put your five fingers through it it

[1805] open and am for ever in the black adiaphane. Basta! I will see if I can

[2128] The flood is following me. I can watch it flow past from here. Get back

[2177] Can’t see! Who’s behind me? Out quickly, quickly! Do you see the

4. Calypso

[2447] what I look like to her. Height of a tower? No, she can jump me.

[2464] can’t mouse after. Why? They shine in the dark, perhaps, the tips. Or

[2472] rough? To lap better, all porous holes. Nothing she can eat? He glanced

[2579] passing a pub. Save it they can’t. Off the drunks perhaps. Put down

[2611] Kinnereth on the lakeshore of Tiberias. Can become ideal winter

[2669] for life as owner in the book of the union. Can pay ten down and the

[3012] yes. Prevent. Useless: can’t move. Girl’s sweet light lips. Will

5. Lotus Eaters

[3290] braided drums. Clearly I can see today. Moisture about gives long sight

[3403] in the same boat. Softsoaping. Give you the needle that would. Can’t

[3444] look. Still their neigh can be very irritating.

[3495] because no-one can hear. Or a poison bouquet to strike him down. Then

[3741] have been or the second. O, he can look it up in the prescriptions book.

[3799] —Yes, sir, the chemist said. You can pay all together, sir, when you

[3826] —You can keep it, Mr Bloom said.

[3837] —I say you can keep it, Mr Bloom answered. I was going to throw it

[3866] Sit around under sunshades. Over after over. Out. They can’t play it

6. Hades

[4187] that? I suppose the skin can’t contract quickly enough when the flesh

[4206] chief towns. What you lose on one you can make up on the other.

[4483] —I can’t make out why the corporation doesn’t run a tramline from

[4846] can do so too. We are the last. This cemetery is a treacherous place.

[5097] be damned unpleasant. Can’t believe it at first. Mistake must be:

[5282] a flash. But being brought back to life no. Can’t bury in the air

7. Aeolus

[5401] his ear, we can do him one.

[5574] isle of Man. Catches the eye, you see. Can you do that?

[5579] —We can do that, the foreman said. Have you the design?

[5581] —I can get it, Mr Bloom said. It was in a Kilkenny paper. He has a

[5582] house there too. I’ll just run out and ask him. Well, you can do that

[5588] —We can do that, he said. Let him give us a three months’ renewal.

[6228] I can’t see the Joe Miller. Can you?

[6284] “YOU CAN DO IT!”

[6289] in it. You can do it. I see it in your face. In the lexicon of youth...

[6298] —We can all supply mental pabulum, Mr O’Madden Burke said.

[6306] —You can do it, Myles Crawford repeated, clenching his hand in

[6567] —You know Gerald Fitzgibbon. Then you can imagine the style of his

[6603] Briefly, as well as I can bring them to mind, his words were these.

[6795] —Antithesis, the professor said nodding twice. Vestal virgins. I can

[6833] councillor Nannetti from the Kilkenny People. I can have access to it in

[6841] —Will you tell him he can kiss my arse? Myles Crawford said throwing

[6850] —Well, Mr Bloom said, his eyes returning, if I can get the design I

[6856] —He can kiss my royal Irish arse, Myles Crawford cried loudly over his

[6968] FLO WANGLES—YET CAN YOU BLAME THEM?

8. Lestrygonians

[7099] Good idea that. Wonder if he pays rent to the corporation. How can you

[7131] sound. She’s not exactly witty. Can be rude too. Blurt out what I was

[7156] potted under the obituaries, cold meat department. You can’t lick

[7157] ’em. What? Our envelopes. Hello, Jones, where are you going? Can’t

[7535] Can’t blame them after all with the job they have especially the

[7703] His lids came down on the lower rims of his irides. Can’t see it. If

[7704] you imagine it’s there you can almost see it. Can’t see it.

[7765] never like it again after Rudy. Can’t bring back time. Like holding

[7835] Bitten off more than he can chew. Am I like that? See ourselves as

[7966] Tom Kernan can dress. Puts gusto into it. Pure olive oil. Milly served

[8048] —And here’s himself and pepper on him, Nosey Flynn said. Can you

[8102] of course does that. Just a bite or two. Then about six o’clock I can.

[8137] bill of fare so you can know what you’ve eaten. Too many drugs spoil

[8146] over fist finger in fishes’ gills can’t write his name on a cheque

[8179] world admires. Can see them library museum standing in the round hall,

[8227] —He doesn’t buy cream on the ads he picks up. You can make bacon of

[8472] Look at all the things they can learn to do. Read with their fingers.

[8481] the summer: smells. Tastes? They say you can’t taste wines with your

[8517] Dear, dear, dear. Pity, of course: but somehow you can’t cotton on to

9. Scylla and Charybdis

[8673] One can see him, a model schoolboy with his diploma under his arm.

[8685] to see if they can help. The Christ with the bridesister, moisture of

[8736] —People do not know how dangerous lovesongs can be, the auric egg of

[8850] poet lived? As for living our servants can do that for us, Villiers de

[8987] —I don’t know if I can. Thursday. We have our meeting. If I can get

[9015] that in virtue of which it is impossible that one can be otherwise.

[9154] —There can be no reconciliation, Stephen said, if there has not been a

[9412] —... in which everyone can find his own. So Mr Justice Madden in his

[9616] hands and said: All we can say is that life ran very high in those days.

[9626] —The doctor can tell us what those words mean. You cannot eat your

[9792] the father who has not a son be not a father can the son who has not a

[10091] —For a guinea, Stephen said, you can publish this interview.

[10118] Ireland. I’ll be there. Come, Kinch, the bards must drink. Can you

10. Wandering Rocks

[10372] —Well, let me see if you can post a letter, Father Conmee said.

[10732] —Can you send them by tram? Now?

[10848] I can go after six if you’re not back. A quarter after. Yes, sir.

[10893] I’ll get those bags cleared away from the windows. You can take it

[10905] Next week, say. Can you see?

[10981] can see what turn is on and what turns are over.

[11279] —See if you can do anything with that, he said.

[11319] —Can’t you look for some money somewhere? Dilly said.

[11358] float and the firehose all burst. What I can’t understand is how

[11488] you who can. Bawd and butcher were the words. I say! Not yet awhile. A

[11680] —You can tell Barabbas from me, Ben Dollard said, that he can put that

[11869] white death and the ruddy birth. That is his tragedy. He can never be a

[11880] —He can find no trace of hell in ancient Irish myth, Haines said, amid

11. Sirens

[12559] —Who may he be? he asked. Can you ask? Stephen, the youthful bard.

[13212] can’t sing for tall hats. Your head it simply swurls. Perfumed for

[13248] Lovely name you have. Can’t write. Accept my little pres. Play on

[13340] voice lives not ask Lambert he can tell you too.

[13444] Can’t see now. Remember write Greek ees. Bloom dipped, Bloo mur: dear

[13495] Blot over the other so he can’t read. There. Right. Idea prize titbit.

[13591] That’s joyful I can feel. Never have written it. Why? My joy is other

[13597] Tongue when she talks like the clapper of a bellows. They can’t manage

[13600] hear. Want a woman who can deliver the goods.

[13807] Pass by her. Can leave that Freeman. Letter I have. Suppose she were

[13979] comb and tissuepaper you can knock a tune out of. Molly in her shift in

[13987] capo. Still you can hear. As we march, we march along, march along. Pom.

12. Cyclops

[14092] hanging on to his taw now for the past fortnight and I can’t get a

[14655] in he can’t get out hoping to be favoured i remain, honoured sir, my

[14709] —That can be explained by science, says Bloom. It’s only a natural

[14946] corporation meeting and all to that and the shoneens that can’t speak

[15046] time and nominally under the act the mortgagee can’t recover on the

[15255] advantage in the timehonoured anthem sung as only our citizen can sing

[15504] —Poor old sir Frederick, says Alf, you can cod him up to the two eyes.

[15698] —Some people, says Bloom, can see the mote in others’ eyes but they

[15699] can’t see the beam in their own.

[15973] cornerpieces, the acme of art, wherein one can distinctly discern each

[16117] flogging the natives on the belly to squeeze all the red rubber they can

[16234] —And after all, says John Wyse, why can’t a jew love his country

[16291] —Charity to the neighbour, says Martin. But where is he? We can’t

13. Nausicaa

[16831] Gerty would never see seventeen again) can find it in his heart to

[17141] it been said that whosoever prays to her with faith and constancy can

[17306] flashed up. I can throw my cap at who I like because it’s leap year.

[17496] —Gerty! Gerty! We’re going. Come on. We can see from farther up.

[17540] Pity they can’t see themselves. A dream of wellfilled hose. Where was

[17561] vindictive too for what they can’t get. Barbed wire. Be sure now and

[17588] marrying. Beauty and the beast. Besides I can’t be so if Molly.

[17733] the women’s fault also. That’s where Molly can knock spots off them.

[17773] slipper on the floor so they wouldn’t hear. But lots of them can’t

[17854] star I see. Venus? Can’t tell yet. Two. When three it’s night. Were

[17925] It can’t be tourists’ matches. What? Perhaps the sticks dry rub

[17942] home again. If ever he does. Smelling the tail end of ports. How can

[17985] Is it only half fun? Or children playing battle. Whole earnest. How can

[18043] brought it near his eyes and peered. Letter? No. Can’t read. Better

[18081] Not even the smoke. And she can do the other. Did too. And Belfast. I

14. Oxen of the Sun

[18148] as no nature’s boon can contend against the bounty of increase so it

[18155] hardihood to rise affirming that no more odious offence can for anyone

[18182] mothers prosperity at all not to can be and as they had received

[18679] past her term, the midwives sore put to it and can’t deliver, she

[18717] butchered along of the plague. But they can go hang, says he with a

[18739] day morning going to the Liverpool boats, says he. I can scarce believe

[18951] and universal must be that sweetest of Thy tyrannies which can hold in

[18961] from whom I can have for a livre as snug a cloak of the French fashion

[19018] the most momentous that can befall a puny child of clay? Perish the

[19058] lost all forbearance, can lose no more, there remained the sharp

[19268] sons. Who can say? The wise father knows his own child. He thinks of a

[19330] more, and greatly more, than a capful of light odes can call your genius

[19448] them as best he can. There may be, it is true, some questions which

[19503] plasmic substance can be said to be immortal) tend to disappear at an

[19509] that an omnivorous being which can masticate, deglute, digest and

[19519] scientific can scarcely distinguish an acid from an alkali prides

15. Circe

[20209] BLOOM: I can give you... I mean as your business menagerer... Mrs

[20380] the beast. I can never forgive you for that. (His clenched fist at his

[20566] Can’t always save you, though. If I had passed Truelock’s window

[20963] BLOOM: (In court dress.) Can give best references. Messrs Callan,

[21044] the pigeonlivered cur as long as I can stand over him. I’ll flay him

[21168] may I speak to you? You know me. That three shillings you can keep. If

[21338] device. (Lewdly.) The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder

[21643] NOSEY FLYNN: Can I raise a mortgage on my fire insurance?

[21820] everything. He is practically a total abstainer and I can affirm that

[21990] to be. Life’s dream is o’er. End it peacefully. They can live on.

[21997] too quick with your best girl. O, I can read your thoughts!

[22025] ZOE: (Flattered.) What the eye can’t see the heart can’t grieve for.

[22145] THE CAP: Which? Finish. You can’t.

[22247] something within, the higher self. You can rub shoulders with a Jesus, a

[22348] her cigarette.) Can you see the beautyspot of my behind?

[22391] can wear today. Parallax! (With a nervous twitch of his head.) Did you

[22408] VIRAG: We can do you all brands, mild, medium and strong. Pay your

[22577] FLORRY: (Smirking.) The bird that can sing and won’t sing.

[22899] BLOOM: (With desire, with reluctance.) I can make a true black knot.

[23034] MRS KEOGH: (Ferociously.) Can I help? (They hold and pinion Bloom.)

[23064] BLOOM: (Stifling.) Can’t.

[23248] a cart. Buy a bucket or sell your pump. (Loudly.) Can you do a man’s

[23257] all over it. He shot his bolt, I can tell you! Foot to foot, knee to

[23329] grace about you. I can give you a rare old wine that’ll send you

[23964] BOYLAN: (Clasps himself.) Here, I can’t hold this little lot much

[23969] BOYLAN: (To Bloom, over his shoulder.) You can apply your eye to the

[24459] STEPHEN: No! No! No! Break my spirit, all of you, if you can! I’ll

[24656] points his finger.) I’m not afraid of what I can talk to if I see his

[24984] BLOOM: (Runs to Lynch.) Can’t you get him away?

[25043] BLOOM: (Glances sharply at the man.) Leave him to me. I can easily...

16. Eumaeus

[25538] the intelligence, I can quite credit the assertion and I guarantee he

[25851] breadgraters. Cuts off their diddies when they can’t bear no more

[26022] —What year would that be about? Mr B interrogated. Can you recall the

[26160] disease can be barefaced enough to solicit or how any man in his sober

[26195] can hear, is quite capable of adding that to the number of His other

[26229] than I, of course I needn’t tell you. Can’t you drink that coffee,

[26231] one of our skipper’s bricks disguised. Still no-one can give what he

[26269] —Liquids I can eat, Stephen said. But O, oblige me by taking away

[26270] that knife. I can’t look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman

[26361] street museum today, shortly prior to our meeting if I can so call it,

[26627] of ruining. Not a vestige of truth in it, I can safely say. History,

[26648] Mater, vita bene. Where you can live well, the sense is, if you work.

[26690] —We can’t change the country. Let us change the subject.

[26930] needless to say, cropped up. Can real love, supposing there happens to

[27224] in the vicinity. You can’t drink that stuff. Do you like cocoa? Wait.

17. Ithaca

[28611] “I can’t come back and I won’t come back

18. Penelope

[30663] can out of him no fool like an old fool and then the usual kissing my

[30708] Emperor is it yes imagine Im him think of him can you feel him trying to

[30786] me and Boylan set him off well he can think what he likes now if thatll

[30855] like that of course some men can be dreadfully aggravating drive you mad

[30898] you can believe him I liked the way he used his mouth singing then he

[30903] can happen without him knowing he hadnt an idea about my mother till we

[30919] where hed no business they can go and get whatever they like from

[30994] us with their eyes as stupid as ever they can possibly be that was an

[31012] well he doesnt look it thats all I can say still it must have been him

[31047] with his tingating cither can you ever be up to men the way it takes

[31124] can see its not true and that Ruby and Fair Tyrants he brought me that

[31153] everything he can scour off the shelves into it if I went by his advices

[31202] jawbreakers about the incarnation he never can explain a thing simply

[31203] the way a body can understand then he goes and burns the bottom out of

[31220] of a woman I can feel his mouth O Lord I must stretch myself I wished

[31505] might get a squeeze or two at a woman while they can going out to be

[31524] no he hadnt a moustache that was Gardner yes I can see his face

[31546] can excite a swell with money that can pick and choose whoever he wants

[31616] oar slipping out of the stirrup its a mercy we werent all drowned he can

[31645] not sooner will you be my man will you carry my can he ought to get a

[31679] cant say I pretend things can he Im too honest as a matter of fact and

[31684] with those romps of Murray girls calling for her can Milly come out

[31685] please shes in great demand to pick what they can out of her round in

[31832] way only I like letting myself down after in the hole as far as I can

[31867] he has look at the way hes sleeping at the foot of the bed how can he

[31948] theyre not going to get my husband again into their clutches if I can

[32035] what gives the women the moustaches Im sure itll be grand if I can only

[32038] the lady herself and see if he comes out Ill read and study all I can

[32040] me stupid if he thinks all women are the same and I can teach him the

[32067] in a sweepingbrush men again all over they can pick and choose what they

[32073] out what they did together well naturally and if he did can he undo it

[32078] know I cant help it if Im young still can I its a wonder Im not an old

[32138] the night they have friends they can talk to weve none either he wants

[32158] upside down the two ways I always knew wed go away in the end I can

[32175] like me as hes making the breakfast for 1 he can make it for 2 Im sure

[32207] in his face as large as life he can stick his tongue 7 miles up my hole

[32231] the brains out of itself let me see if I can doze off 1 2 3 4 5 what

[32235] so as I can get up early Ill go to Lambes there beside Findlaters and

[32239] asleep then we can have music and cigarettes I can accompany him first I