Joyce's Ulysses Concordance

Episodes text

  1. Telemachus
  2. Nestor
  3. Proteus
  4. Calypso
  5. Lotus Eaters
  6. Hades
  7. Aeolus
  8. Lestrygonians
  9. Scylla and Charybdis
  10. Wandering Rocks
  11. Sirens
  12. Cyclops
  13. Nausicaa
  14. Oxen of the Sun
  15. Circe
  16. Eumaeus
  17. Ithaca
  18. Penelope

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1. Telemachus

[283] —Yes? Buck Mulligan said. What did I say? I forget.
[291] —Did I say that? he asked. Well? What harm is that?
[305] like some hired mute from Lalouette’s. Absurd! I suppose I did say it.
[507] —I’m giving you two lumps each, he said. But, I say, Mulligan, you
[729] —You put your hoof in it now. What did you say that for?
[804] —Rather bleak in wintertime, I should say. Martello you call it?
[843] —I mean to say, Haines explained to Stephen as they followed, this
[894] not a believer myself, that is to say. Still his gaiety takes the harm

2. Nestor

[1462] Shakespeare say? Put but money in thy purse.
[1750] —I just wanted to say, he said. Ireland, they say, has the honour

3. Proteus

[2005] Egypt, elbowed by belching cabmen. Just say in the most natural tone:

4. Calypso

[2444] They call them stupid. They understand what we say better than we
[2483] And when he had heard his voice say it he added:
[2561] Stop and say a word: about the funeral perhaps. Sad thing about poor
[2585] How much would that tot to off the porter in the month? Say ten barrels
[2586] of stuff. Say he got ten per cent off. O more. Fifteen. He passed Saint
[2775] hungrily against him. Give her too much meat she won’t mouse. Say they
[2904] planet. They say we have forgotten it. Some say they remember their past
[3067] in the paybox there got away James Stephens, they say. O’Brien.

5. Lotus Eaters

[3196] curriculum. Cracking curriculum. What is weight really when you say the
[3468] annoyed then? What does she say?
[3549] his shirt four times a day, they say. Skin breeds lice or vermin. A
[3652] instrument talk, the vibrato: fifty pounds a year they say he had in
[3776] teeth: nettles and rainwater: oatmeal they say steeped in buttermilk.
[3837] —I say you can keep it, Mr Bloom answered. I was going to throw it

6. Hades

[4070] Gasworks. Whooping cough they say it cures. Good job Milly never got
[4243] he keeps? Not pleasant for the wife. Yet they say, who was it told me,
[4403] —They say a man who does it is a coward, Mr Dedalus said.
[4409] Like Shakespeare’s face. Always a good word to say. They have no mercy
[4530] But suppose now it did happen. Would he bleed if a nail say cut him in
[4665] Queen’s hotel in Ennis. You heard him say he was going to Clare.
[4693] outlive the other. Wise men say. There are more women than men in the
[4805] everybody. Tiresome kind of a job. But he has to say something.
[4855] are the last. In the same boat. Hope he’ll say something else.
[4860] impressive I must say.
[4986] I suppose who is this used to say he was a queer breedy man great
[5036] Seems a sort of a joke. Read your own obituary notice they say you live
[5055] First thing strikes anybody. Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true
[5090] say. Shame of death. They hide. Also poor papa went away.
[5115] Does he ever think of the hole waiting for himself? They say you do when
[5167] —No, Mr Bloom began, turning and stopping. I say, Hynes!
[5202] —Some say he is not in that grave at all. That the coffin was filled
[5255] after fifteen years, say. For instance who? For instance some fellow
[5276] Voyages in China that the Chinese say a white man smells like a corpse.
[5281] water. Drowning they say is the pleasantest. See your whole life in

7. Aeolus

[5500] Soon be calling him my lord mayor. Long John is backing him, they say.
[5647] serious man with a bit in the savingsbank I’d say. Wife a good cook
[5730] say. Old Chatterton, the vicechancellor, is his granduncle or his
[5731] greatgranduncle. Close on ninety they say. Subleader for his death
[6308] used to say when he was on the shaughraun, doing billiardmarking in the
[6327] cabman’s shelter, they say, down there at Butt bridge. Holohan told
[6337] —Gumley? he said. You don’t say so? A friend of my father’s, is
[6347] —Take page four, advertisement for Bransome’s coffee, let us say.
[6555] Speaking about me. What did he say? What did he say? What did he say
[6559] Wait a moment. Let me say one thing. The finest display of oratory I
[6578] I will not say the vials of his wrath but pouring the proud man’s
[6698] say ay, Lenehan announced. The contrary no. I declare it carried. To
[6971] say.

8. Lestrygonians

[7089] mouth disease too. If you cram a turkey say on chestnutmeal it tastes
[7132] thinking. Still, I don’t know. She used to say Ben Dollard had a base
[7171] Pat Claffey, the pawnbroker’s daughter. It was a nun they say invented
[7449] of brandy neat while you’d say knife. That one at the Grosvenor this
[7614] Landlord never dies they say. Other steps into his shoes when he gets
[7638] corporation meeting today. They say he never put on the city marshal’s
[7673] of that cow will pursue you through all eternity. They say it’s
[7749] M’Coy said. They drink in order to say or do something or cherchez
[7789] mightn’t like it. Women won’t pick up pins. Say it cuts lo.
[8181] All to see. Never speaking. I mean to say to fellows like Flynn. Suppose
[8182] she did Pygmalion and Galatea what would she say first? Mortal! Put you
[8241] a leg up. I was told that by a—well, I won’t say who.
[6971] say.
[8331] —Say nothing! Bantam Lyons winked. I’m going to plunge five bob on
[8353] smooth. Something green it would have to be: spinach, say. Then with
[8407] church of Rome? Birds’ Nest. Women run him. They say they used to give
[8438] Say something to him. Better not do the condescending. They mistrust
[8474] deformed person or a hunchback clever if he says something we might say.
[8481] the summer: smells. Tastes? They say you can’t taste wines with your
[8482] eyes shut or a cold in the head. Also smoke in the dark they say get no
[8490] for instance. Say it was black, for instance. Good. We call it black.

9. Scylla and Charybdis

[9002] —They say we are to have a literary surprise, the quaker librarian
[9185] his name is, say of it?
[9216] harmony with—what shall I say?—our notions of what ought not to have
[9232] overborne in a cornfield first (ryefield, I should say) and he will
[9515] —Say that he is the spurned lover in the sonnets. Once spurned twice
[9616] hands and said: All we can say is that life ran very high in those days.
[9727] say that only family poets have family lives. Falstaff was not a family
[9842] going to say a good word for Richard, don’t you know, for my sake.
[9911] Mr Best eagerquietly lifted his book to say:
[9914] know, we find also in the old Irish myths. Just what you say. The three
[9939] —Come, he said. Let us hear what you have to say of Richard and
[9958] —You will say those names were already in the chronicles from which
[9971] Que voulez-vous? Moore would say. He puts Bohemia on the seacoast and
[10074] there is some mystery in Hamlet but will say no more. Herr Bleibtreu,

10. Wandering Rocks

[10393] say?... such a queenly mien.
[10397] speak. The incumbent they called him. He felt it incumbent on him to say
[10498] a waste, if one might say.
[10772] —May I say a word to your telephone, missy? he asked roguishly.
[10905] Next week, say. Can you see?
[10963] —See? he said. Say it’s turn six. In here, see. Turn Now On.
[11356] children. Most brutal thing. What do they say was the cause? Spontaneous
[11361] a doubt. Well now, look at that. And America they say is the land of the
[11488] you who can. Bawd and butcher were the words. I say! Not yet awhile. A
[11491] Yes, quite true. Very large and wonderful and keeps famous time. You say
[11517] white wine vinegar. How to win a woman’s love. For me this. Say the
[11545] My eyes they say she has. Do others see me so? Quick, far and daring.
[11590] just waiting for Ben Dollard. He’s going to say a word to long John to
[11728] —I’ll say there is much kindness in the jew, he quoted, elegantly.
[11990] saw his tongue and his teeth trying to say it better. Poor pa. That was

11. Sirens

[12481] —Well now, he mused, whatever you say yourself. I think I’ll trouble
[12496] last, they say. Yes. Yes.
[12633] —Twopence, sir, the shopgirl dared to say.
[12736] That is to say she. Neatly she poured slowsyrupy sloe.
[13014] And heard steelhoofs ringhoof ring. No, she couldn’t say. But it would
[13454] gulls. Elijah is com. Seven Davy Byrne’s. Is eight about. Say half a
[13651] Ben Dollard’s voice. Base barreltone. Doing his level best to say it.
[13757] Blank face. Virgin should say: or fingered only. Write something on it:
[13762] them. Gold in your pocket, brass in your face. Say something. Make her
[13883] is to say. That was to say he had heard the name of. Dollard, was it?

12. Cyclops

[14599] —He’s a bloody ruffian, I say, to take away poor little Willy
[14921] and it is safe to say that there was not a dry eye in that record
[15004] to say nothing of a more modern lyrist at present very much in the
[15152] Because the poor animals suffer and experts say and the best known
[15224] had to have his say too about if a fellow had a rower’s heart violent
[15517] children? Ten, did you say?
[15564] but if he would just say a word to Mr Crawford. And so Joe swore high
[16031] there. If he comes just say I’ll be back in a second. Just a moment.
[16211] —What say you, good masters, to a squab pigeon pasty, some collops of
[16398] —And so say all of us, says Jack.

13. Nausicaa

[16658] —Now, baby, Cissy Caffrey said. Say out big, big. I want a drink of
[16686] coveted castle too. Needless to say the cries of discomfited Master
[16784] say that because of him cooling in his attentions when it was simply a
[16932] won’t say.
[16938] life to say, flushing a deep rosy red, and Edy Boardman said she was
[17031] could down towards the seaweedy rocks. Needless to say poor Tommy was
[17075] didn’t the little chap enjoy that! And then she told him to say papa.
[17077] —Say papa, baby. Say pa pa pa pa pa pa pa.
[17079] And baby did his level best to say it for he was very intelligent for
[17087] sit up properly and say pa pa pa but when she undid the strap she cried
[17535] gouger M’Coy stopping me to say nothing. And his wife engagement in
[17550] shining beneath his what? of jet. Say a woman loses a charm with every
[17577] plants I read in a garden. Besides they say if the flower withers she
[17609] perhaps. Go home to nicey bread and milky and say night prayers with the
[17621] Wonderful of course if you say: good evening, and you see she’s on
[17624] night. All the dirty things I made her say. All wrong of course. My
[17637] she once knew a gentleman who. Or ask you what someone was going to say
[17638] when he changed his mind and stopped. Yet if I went the whole hog, say:
[17660] lane. Say prunes and prisms forty times every morning, cure for fat
[17840] say. Must be some somewhere. Salt in the Ormond damp. The body feels
[17920] the staircase. Colour of brown turf. Say you never see them with three
[17933] they say. Like our small talk. And says she and says he. Nerve they have
[17941] they say. She has a good job if she minds it till Johnny comes marching
[18032] loved for ever, they say. Ugly: no woman thinks she is. Love, lie and be

14. Oxen of the Sun

[18277] the learningknight would not hear say nay nor do her mandement ne have
[18457] now. Or she knew him, that second I say, and was but creature of her
[18525] all the people shall say, Amen. Remember, Erin, thy generations and
[18539] kissed my mouth. This tenebrosity of the interior, he proceeded to say,
[18663] say, a good Williamite) chanced against Alec. Bannon in a cut bob (which
[18682] the knocks, they say, but God give her soon issue. ’Tis her ninth
[18691] ken say after wind and water fire shall come for a prognostication of
[18698] With this came up Lenehan to the feet of the table to say how the letter
[19013] when I say that if need were I could produce a cloud of witnesses to the
[19268] sons. Who can say? The wise father knows his own child. He thinks of a
[19656] kreutzer. Copulation without population! No, say I! Herod’s slaughter
[19749] ’Tis, sure. What say? In the speakeasy. Tight. I shee you, shir.
[19778] Closingtime, gents. Eh? Rome boose for the Bloom toff. I hear you say

15. Circe

[19947] cometobed hat. Did you, says I. That’s not for you to say, says I.
[20544] PRIVATE COMPTON: Say! What price the sergeantmajor?
[20844] long unintelligible speech. They would hear what counsel had to say in
[20846] branded as a black sheep, if he might say so, he meant to reform, to
[20922] superseded the law of the jungle. I say it and I say it emphatically,
[20958] soultransfiguring deserves to live I say accord the prisoner at the bar
[21347] memory, will, understanding, all. That is to say he brought the poison
[21356] Quay, Rotunda, Mountjoy and North Dock, better run a tramline, I say,
[21649] J. J. O’MOLLOY: A Daniel did I say? Nay! A Peter O’Brien!
[22010] say, Tommy Tittlemouse. Stop that and begin worse. Have you cash for a
[22168] FLORRY: They say the last day is coming this summer.
[22239] shut. Say, I am operating all this trunk line. Boys, do it now. God’s
[22248] Gautama, an Ingersoll. Are you all in this vibration? I say you are. You
[22379] should opine. Backbone in front, so to say. Correct me but I always
[22429] VIRAG: (Arches his eyebrows.) Contact with a goldring, they say.
[22446] BLOOM: Rosemary also did I understand you to say or willpower over
[22450] VIRAG: (Excitedly.) I say so. I say so. E’en so. Technic. (He taps his
[22460] From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step. Pyjamas, let us say?
[23151] BELLO: (Whistles loudly.) Say! What was the most revolting piece of
[23181] ring I thee own. Say, thank you, mistress.
[23677] You’ll say you don’t know
[23779] BLOOM: That is one pound six and eleven. One pound seven, say.
[24125] BLOOM: I say, look...
[24408] STEPHEN: (Choking with fright, remorse and horror.) They say I killed
[24637] PRIVATE CARR: (His cap awry, advances to Stephen.) Say, how would it be,
[24701] PRIVATE CARR: (To Stephen.) Say it again.
[24707] Carr’s sleeve.) Not that I wish it for you. But I say: Let my country

16. Eumaeus

[25307] backdoor of the morgue (a not very enticing locality, not to say
[25336] solicitor rather, old Wall, he meant to say, or Mahony which simply
[25356] invariably drew the line as it simply led to trouble all round to say
[25530] —Everybody gets their own ration of luck, they say. Now you mention it
[25647] shape of solid food, say, a roll of some description.
[25730] —Bottles out there, say. Fifty yards measured. Eggs on the bottles.
[25880] or Saturday of travelling to London via long sea not to say that he had
[26033] globe, suffice it to say that, as a casual glance at the map revealed,
[26060] not to say stormy, weather.
[26147] really loved him, that is to say, love me, love my dirty shirt. Still
[26174] stop to instanter to say that women of that stamp (quite apart from any
[26184] such, as distinct from any outside object, the table, let us say, that
[26190] and concentrate and remember before he could say:
[26211] colour to say you believe in the existence of a supernatural God.
[26256] —Have a shot at it now, he ventured to say of the coffee after being
[26298] and had served his four or five goodlooking years in durance vile to say
[26367] a woman’s natural beauty, no matter what you say. Rumpled stockings,
[26374] had his own say to say. He had doubled the cape a few odd times and
[26519] irascible words when it waxed hotter, both, needless to say, appealing
[26532] personally say on the matter was that as a host of contingencies,
[26584] soft answer turns away wrath. He hadn’t a word to say for himself as
[26598] though every country, they say, our own distressful included, has the
[26627] of ruining. Not a vestige of truth in it, I can safely say. History,
[26656] didn’t say the words the voice he heard said, if you work.
[26695] kind was clearer than the other part. Needless to say the fumes of
[26733] mind the pin, whereas savages in the cannibal islands, say, at ninety
[26755] column. My Experiences, let us say, in a Cabman’s Shelter.
[26794] Stephen Dedalus B. A. who were conspicuous, needless to say, by their
[26795] total absence (to say nothing of M’Intosh) L. Boom pointed it out to
[26930] needless to say, cropped up. Can real love, supposing there happens to
[27038] Besides he said the picture was handsome which, say what you like, it
[27279] that is to say, either simply looking on glumly or passing a trivial
[27350] sensation, he might safely say, greatly adding to her other laurels and
[27354] opinion that there was none to come up to her and suffice it to say in

18. Penelope

[30723] it where you sit down yes O Lord couldnt he say bottom right out and
[30728] would he Id say by the bullneck in his horsecollar I wonder did he know
[30816] something I want to say to you only for I put him off letting on I was
[30859] wonder why they call it that if I asked him hed say its from the Greek
[30888] hes not natural like the rest of the world that I what did he say I
[30924] halfturned and stopped then he pestered me to say yes till I took off my
[30939] waiting all the time for his dinner he told me to say I left my purse in
[30946] man and if I knew what it meant of course I had to say no for form sake
[30961] professor I had to say Im a fright yes but he was a real old gent in his
[30962] way it was impossible to be more respectful nobody to say youre out you
[30998] then coming back suppose I never came back what would they say eloped
[31012] well he doesnt look it thats all I can say still it must have been him
[31068] kind of drawers he likes none at all I think didnt he say yes and half
[31077] but thats no good what did they say they give a delightful figure line
[31312] uniforms on shore leave made me seasick he didnt say anything he was
[31349] understand what you say even youd want to print it up on a big poster
[31364] she wrote to say she was married to a very rich architect if Im to
[31373] me the wrong things and no stops to say like making a speech your sad
[31387] her after out of the ladies letterwriter when I told her to say a
[31479] say they could have put an article about it in the Chronicle I was a bit
[31493] looking blooming Josie used to say after I married him well its better
[31612] if anyone asked could he ride the steeplechase for the gold cup hed say
[31679] cant say I pretend things can he Im too honest as a matter of fact and
[31693] what they say her tongue is a bit too long for my taste your blouse is
[31973] Goulding but then hed say or do something to knock the good out of it
[32056] better to say for himself an old Lion would O well I suppose its because
[32187] to say they are and the night too that was her massgoing Id love a
[32269] leading him on till he asked me to say yes and I wouldnt answer first
[32272] old captain Groves and the sailors playing all birds fly and I say stoop
[32296] say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and