Joyce's Ulysses Concordance

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1. Telemachus

[128] —The aunt thinks you killed your mother, he said. That’s why she

[233] one that knows what you are. Why don’t you trust me more? What have

[277] sensations. Why? What happened in the name of God?

[299] down to pray for your mother on her deathbed when she asked you. Why?

[438] forgotten, on the parapet. Why should I bring it down? Or leave it there

[746] they are good for. Why don’t you play them as I do? To hell with them

2. Nestor

[1183] clement master’s praise. Why had they chosen all that part? Not wholly

[1634] the darkness in their eyes. And that is why they are wanderers on the

[1752] that? No. And do you know why?

[1756] —Why, sir? Stephen asked, beginning to smile.

[1765] stamped on gaitered feet over the gravel of the path. That’s why.

3. Proteus

[1783] millionaire, maestro di color che sanno. Limit of the diaphane in. Why

[1820] all flesh. That is why mystic monks. Will you be as gods? Gaze in your

[2032] The aunt thinks you killed your mother. That’s why she won’t.

[2035] And I’ll tell you the reason why.

[2275] His shadow lay over the rocks as he bent, ending. Why not endless till

[2377] bad. Why, I wonder. Feel. That one is going too. Shells. Ought I go to a

[2379] superman. Why is that, I wonder, or does it mean something perhaps?

4. Calypso

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

[2471] lapped slower, then licking the saucer clean. Why are their tongues so

[2712] Blotchy brown brick houses. Number eighty still unlet. Why is that?

[3113] Why? I noticed he had a good rich smell off his breath dancing. No use

5. Lotus Eaters

[3228] Redcoats. Too showy. That must be why the women go after them. Uniform.

[3302] —Why? I said. What’s wrong with him? I said.

[3415] night. Male impersonator. Perhaps he was a woman. Why Ophelia committed

[3473] you did not like my last letter. Why did you enclose the stamps? I am

[3509] Brutal, why not? Try it anyhow. A bit at a time.

[3601] a corpse. Why the cannibals cotton to it.

[3691] schschschschschsch. And did you chachachachacha? And why did you? Look

[3723] Glimpses of the moon. Annoyed if you don’t. Why didn’t you tell

[3746] Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Gradually changes your character.

6. Hades

[4228] Wonder why he was struck off the rolls. Had his office in Hume street.

[4369] Gill’s, catholic club, the industrious blind. Why? Some reason. Sun

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

[4500] —Why? Mr Bloom asked, turning to Mr Dedalus. Wouldn’t it be more

[5151] Charley, you’re my darling. That was why he asked me to. O well, does

[5241] dedicated to it or whatever that. Seems anything but pleased. Why this

[5310] Pure fluke of mine: the bias. Why he took such a rooted dislike to me.

7. Aeolus

[5850] cake that stuff. He was in the bakery line too, wasn’t he? Why they

[6227] To wear them why trouble?

[6437] Would anyone wish that mouth for her kiss? How do you know? Why did you

[6464] with you. Why not bring in Henry Grattan and Flood and Demosthenes and

[6468] and our watchful friend The Skibbereen Eagle. Why bring in a master

[6632] —Why will you jews not accept our culture, our religion and our

8. Lestrygonians

[7090] like that. Eat pig like pig. But then why is it that saltwater fish are

[7545] whistle in my ears still. All skedaddled. Why he fixed on me. Give me in

[7563] Drop him like a hot potato. Why those plainclothes men are always

[7675] Bad as a bloater. Dreams all night. Why do they call that thing they

[8206] —Trouble? Nosey Flynn said. Not that I heard of. Why?

[8406] and passed the reverend Thomas Connellan’s bookstore. Why I left the

[8410] jews. Same bait. Why we left the church of Rome.

[8473] Tune pianos. Or we are surprised they have any brains. Why we think a

[8546] Is it? Almost certain. Won’t look. Wine in my face. Why did I? Too

9. Scylla and Charybdis

[9063] Alarmed face asks me. Why did he come? Courtesy or an inward light?

[9227] you will get it in middle life. Why does he send to one who is a

[9231] and Juliet. Why? Belief in himself has been untimely killed. He was

[9249] were he not endowed with knowledge by his creator. That is why the

[9537] tell me why there is no mention of her during the thirtyfour years

[9585] shareholder, a bill promoter, a tithefarmer. Why did he not leave her

[9959] he took the stuff of his plays. Why did he take them rather than others?

[9965] the angel of the world. Why is the underplot of King Lear in which

[9974] —Why? Stephen answered himself. Because the theme of the false or

[10072] —Well, in that case, he said, I don’t see why you should expect

[10160] Why won’t you wed a wife?

[10171] left the femme de trente ans. And why no other children born? And his

[10259] if Judas go forth tonight. Why? That lies in space which I in time must

10. Wandering Rocks

[11360] straight, Mr Crimmins. You know why? Palm oil. Is that a fact? Without

[11580] —Why then not much, Father Cowley said. I’m barricaded up, Simon,

[11619] —Why, God eternally curse your soul, Ben Dollard growled furiously, I

11. Sirens

[12390] Bloowhose dark eye read Aaron Figatner’s name. Why do I always think

[12728] —Why don’t you grow? asked Blazes Boylan.

[12886] pensive (why did he go so quick when I?) about her bronze, over the

[13143] why. Woman. As easy stop the sea. Yes: all is lost.

[13257] Wish I could see his face, though. Explain better. Why the barber in

[13272] warbling. First I saw. She thanked me. Why did she me? Fate. Spanishy

[13456] despise? Jingle, have you the? So excited. Why do you call me naught?

[13485] off there sad in minor. Why minor sad? Sign H. They like sad tail at

[13553] seaweed. Why do they hide their ears with seaweed hair? And Turks the

[13554] mouth, why? Her eyes over the sheet. Yashmak. Find the way in. A cave.

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

[13761] didn’t see. They want it. Not too much polite. That’s why he gets

12. Cyclops

[14493] —Yes, says Alf. Why?

[14689] comes out with the why and the wherefore and all the codology of the

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

[16237] —Why not? says J. J., when he’s quite sure which country it is.

13. Nausicaa

[16760] eyes, a charm few could resist. Why have women such eyes of witchery?

[16801] and besides they were both of a size too he and she and that was why Edy

[16892] her shy and often she wondered why you couldn’t eat something poetical

[17229] baby. Irritable little gnat she was and always would be and that was why

[17239] their babby home to the mischief out of that so that was why she just

[17518] Mr Bloom watched her as she limped away. Poor girl! That’s why she’s

[17529] Something in the air. That’s the moon. But then why don’t all women

[17547] all on to take them all off. Molly. Why I bought her the violet garters.

[17592] were on the rocks in Holles street. Why not? Suppose he gave her money.

[17593] Why not? All a prejudice. She’s worth ten, fifteen, more, a pound.

[17657] could whistle. Mouth made for that. Like Molly. Why that highclass whore

[17777] Wait. Hm. Hm. Yes. That’s her perfume. Why she waved her hand. I leave

[17780] kind. Sweet and cheap: soon sour. Why Molly likes opoponax. Suits her,

[17786] too. Why did I smell it only now? Took its time in coming like herself,

[17911] they have. Gabriel Conroy’s brother is curate. Ba. Again. Wonder why

[18003] El hombre ama la muchacha hermosa. Why me? Because you were so foreign

14. Oxen of the Sun

[18161] It is not why therefore we shall wonder if, as the best historians

[18492] Eccles, goodly grinning, asked young Stephen what was the reason why he

[18530] servants. Return, return, Clan Milly: forget me not, O Milesian. Why

[18599] Why, he could not but hear unless he had plugged him up the tube

[19001] man! Bless me, I’m all of a wibbly wobbly. Why, you’re as bad as

[19324] past and its phantoms, Stephen said. Why think of them? If I call them

[19495] Still the plain straightforward question why a child of normally healthy

15. Circe

[20024] BLOOM: Stitch in my side. Why did I run?

[20077] Lad lane. Something poisonous I ate. Emblem of luck. Why? Probably lost

[20392] eye.) Why didn’t you kiss the spot to make it well? You wanted to.

[20593] But then I have it in my left hand. Calls for more effort. Why? Smaller

[20791] rotter! (To the court.) Why, look at the man’s private life! Leading

[21349] food. Suicide. Lies. All our habits. Why, look at our public life!

[21666] JOE HYNES: Why aren’t you in uniform?

[22507] sesame. The cloven sex. Why they fear vermin, creeping things. Yet Eve

[22615] the Virag who disclosed the Sex Secrets of Monks and Maidens. Why I left

[23298] Why not? How many women had you, eh, following them up dark streets,

[23380] proprietary articles and why wear a truss with testimonial from ruptured

[23552] where the back changes name. (With sudden fervour.) For why should the

[23768] of. Why pay more?

[23775] STEPHEN: Why striking eleven? Proparoxyton. Moment before the next

[24624] flannels, bareheaded, flowingbearded.) Theirs not to reason why.

[24634] STEPHEN: (Amiably.) Why not? The bold soldier boy. In my opinion every

[24654] STEPHEN: (Turns.) Eh? (He disengages himself.) Why should I not speak to

16. Eumaeus

[25412] was the reason why the still comparatively young though dissolute

[25545] why did you leave your father’s house?

[25555] Why?

[25661] —A beautiful language. I mean for singing purposes. Why do you not

[25757] —Why, the sailor replied, relaxing to a certain extent under the magic

[25820] —Why, the sailor answered upon reflection upon it, I’ve

[25830] —Why, the sailor said, shifting his partially chewed plug. I seen

[25985] in the dark said for the benefit of them all. That was why they thought

[26040] somewhere sings. And it left him wondering why. Possibly he had tried to

[26075] —Why, the sailor answered with a slow puzzled utterance, my son,

[26138] why pink. His reason for so doing was he recognised on the moment

[26142] and begged the chance of his washing. Also why washing which seemed

[26346] accounts for character. That’s why I asked you if you wrote your

[26445] What he wanted to ascertain was why that ship ran bang against the only

[26538] fact. And now, why? So the scene between the pair of them, the licensee

[26631] answer for, imported them. Why? Because they are imbued with the proper

[26740] to wait on and profit by the unlookedfor occasion though why he could

[26950] always moved with the times. Why, as he reflected, Irishtown strand, a

[27039] was though at the moment she was distinctly stouter. And why not? An

[27051] cause why and, he failing to quash it, nisi was made absolute. But as

[27094] immoderately, pretending to understand everything, the why and the

[27252] effect. To which absorbing piece of intelligence echo answered why.

[27265] —Why, answered the seafarer with the tartan beard, who seemingly was

[27303] of the moment. Why they put tables upside down at night, I mean

[27483] that was the very reason why the other, possessed of a remarkably sharp

17. Ithaca

[27626] Why was he doubly irritated?

[27818] Having set the halffilled kettle on the now burning coals, why did he

[27896] Why did absence of light disturb him less than presence of noise?

[28167] Why could he then support that his vigil with the greater equanimity?

[28245] Why did Bloom refrain from stating that he had frequented the university

[28534] Why was the chant arrested at the conclusion of this first distich?

[28639] Why was the host (victim predestined) sad?

[28644] Why was the host (reluctant, unresisting) still?

[28648] Why was the host (secret infidel) silent?

[28713] Why similarly, why differently?

[28781] Why might these several provisional contingencies between a guest and

[28851] Why would a recurrent frustration the more depress him?

[28874] Why did he desist from speculation?

[28958] Why did he not elaborate these calculations to a more precise result?

[29325] Why solitary (ipsorelative)?

[29329] Why mutable (aliorelative)?

[29433] Why, firstly and secondly, did he not consult the work in question?

[29526] Why with satisfaction?

[30016] Why did Bloom experience a sentiment of remorse?

[30328] If he had smiled why would he have smiled?

[30356] Why for the observer impressionability in addition to vigour, corporal

[30419] Why more abnegation than jealousy, less envy than equanimity?

18. Penelope

[30714] after that its just the ordinary do it and think no more about it why

[30790] of not liking to see her a wallflower that was why we had the standup

[30859] wonder why they call it that if I asked him hed say its from the Greek

[31269] blessed thing in them in a crowd run or jump out of the way thats why

[31569] why am I so damned nervous about that though I like it in the winter its

[31666] that all the same on account of me and Boylan thats why he did it Im

[31908] then why should we tell them even if its the truth they dont believe you

[31926] with a married woman thats why he wants me and Boylan though as for her

[31979] altogether and me too after all why not I saw him driving down to the

[32024] and then plunging into the sea with them why arent all men like that

[32065] blush why should it either its only nature and he puts his thing long

[32071] once I start I tell you for their stupid husbands jealousy why cant we

[32123] why I suppose hes running wild now out at night away from his books

[32133] more I wonder why he wouldnt stay the night I felt all the time it was

[32172] why not theres the room upstairs empty and Millys bed in the back room

[32252] wouldnt give a snap of my two fingers for all their learning why dont

[32255] go howling for the priest and they dying and why why because theyre

[32266] said in his life and the sun shines for you today yes that was why I