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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15. Circe

[21263] (Zoe Higgins, a young whore in a sapphire slip, closed with three bronze
[21267] ZOE: Are you looking for someone? He’s inside with his friend.
[21271] ZOE: No, eightyone. Mrs Cohen’s. You might go farther and fare worse.
[21279] ZOE: You both in black. Has little mousey any tickles tonight?
[21284] ZOE: How’s the nuts?
[21289] ZOE: (In sudden alarm.) You’ve a hard chancre.
[21293] ZOE: I feel it.
[21300] ZOE: For Zoe? For keeps? For being so nice, eh?
[21307] ZOE: You’ll know me the next time.
[21319] ZOE: (Murmuring singsong with the music, her odalisk lips lusciously
[21325] ZOE: And you know what thought did?
[21334] ZOE: (Catches a stray hair deftly and twists it to her coil.) No bloody
[21341] ZOE: Go on. Make a stump speech out of it.
[21982] ZOE: Talk away till you’re black in the face.
[21995] ZOE: (Stiffly, her finger in her neckfillet.) Honest? Till the next
[22002] ZOE: (In sudden sulks.) I hate a rotter that’s insincere. Give a
[22008] ZOE: (Glibly.) Hog’s Norton where the pigs plays the organs. I’m
[22015] ZOE: And more’s mother? (She pats him offhandedly with velvet paws.)
[22025] ZOE: (Flattered.) What the eye can’t see the heart can’t grieve for.
[22030] ZOE: Babby!
[22039] ZOE: Silent means consent. (With little parted talons she captures his
[22052] (Zoe and Bloom reach the doorway where two sister whores are seated.
[22056] ZOE: (Her lucky hand instantly saving him.) Hoopsa! Don’t fall
[22062] ZOE: Ladies first, gentlemen after.
[22072] of a running fox: then, his lifted head sniffing, follows Zoe into
[22095] ZOE: More limelight, Charley. (She goes to the chandelier and turns the
[22102] ZOE: Clap on the back for Zoe.
[22113] ZOE: (Promptly.) Your boy’s thinking of you. Tie a knot on your shift.
[22160] LYNCH: (With a mocking whinny of laughter grins at Bloom and Zoe
[22163] ZOE: (Briskly.) God help your head, he knows more than you have
[22172] ZOE: (Explodes in laughter.) Great unjust God!
[22244] Stephen Christ, Zoe Christ, Bloom Christ, Kitty Christ, Lynch Christ,
[22280] ZOE-FANNY: I let him larrup it into me for the fun of it.
[22337] (Zoe runs to the chandelier and, crooking her leg, adjusts the mantle.)
[22339] ZOE: Who has a fag as I’m here?
[22343] ZOE: (Her head perched aside in mock pride.) Is that the way to hand the
[22352] ZOE: (Makes sheep’s eyes.) No? You wouldn’t do a less thing. Would
[22557] Zoe’s neck. Henry gallant turns with pendant dewlap to the piano.)
[22592] Zoe mou sas agapo. Have a notion I was here before. When was it not
[22609] ZOE: There was a priest down here two nights ago to do his bit of
[22630] ZOE: (Spouts walrus smoke through her nostrils.) He couldn’t get a
[22635] ZOE: (Lightly.) Only for what happened him.
[22666] ZOE: (Gaily.) O, my dictionary.
[22717] STEPHEN: (Over his shoulder to Zoe.) You would have preferred
[22779] ZOE: The devil is in that door.
[22784] pocket and offers it nervously to Zoe.)
[22786] ZOE: (Sniffs his hair briskly.) Hmmm! Thank your mother for the rabbits.
[22793] ZOE: (Tears open the silverfoil.) Fingers was made before forks. (She
[22816] calmly. Zoe offers him chocolate.)
[22820] ZOE: Do as you’re bid. Here!
[22975] ZOE: (Widening her slip to screen her.) She’s not here.
[23023] ZOE: Yes. Walk on him! I will.
[23061] ZOE: (Pulling at Florry.) Me. Me. Are you not finished with him yet,
[23566] THE VOICE OF ZOE: (From the thicket.) Came from a hot place.
[23659] ZOE: Me. Mind your cornflowers. (She darts to the piano and bangs chords
[23665] approaches Zoe.)
[23669] ZOE: Forfeits, a fine thing and a superfine thing.
[23673] ZOE:
[23683] ZOE: Here. (She hauls up a reef of her slip, revealing her bare thigh,
[23702] BELLA: (Looks at the money, then at Stephen, then at Zoe, Florry and
[23710] himself in monosyllables. Zoe bends over the table. Kitty leans over
[23711] Zoe’s neck. Lynch gets up, rights his cap and, clasping Kitty’s
[23717] BELLA, ZOE, KITTY, LYNCH, BLOOM: (Chattering and squabbling.) The
[23727] ZOE: (Lifting up her pettigown and folding a half sovereign into the top
[23754] ZOE: (Points.) Him? Deep as a drawwell. (Lynch bends Kitty back over the
[23800] ZOE: It was a commercial traveller married her and took her away with
[23812] BLOOM: Don’t smoke. You ought to eat. Cursed dog I met. (To Zoe.) You
[23815] ZOE: Is he hungry?
[23823] ZOE: (Tragically.) Hamlet, I am thy father’s gimlet! (She takes
[23829] shake. (To Zoe.) Who taught you palmistry?
[23831] ZOE: (Turns.) Ask my ballocks that I haven’t got. (To Stephen.) I see
[23848] ZOE: (Examining Stephen’s palm.) Woman’s hand.
[23853] ZOE: What day were you born?
[23857] ZOE: Thursday’s child has far to go. (She traces lines on his hand.)
[23862] ZOE: Mount of the moon. You’ll meet with a... (She peers at his hands
[23872] ZOE: (Peering at Bloom’s palm.) Gridiron. Travels beyond the sea and
[23877] ZOE: (Quickly.) O, I see. Short little finger. Henpecked husband. That
[23890] ZOE: I see, says the blind man. Tell us news.
[23897] (Zoe whispers to Florry. They giggle. Bloom releases his hand and writes
[23913] ZOE: (To Florry.) Whisper.
[23935] ZOE AND FLORRY: (Laugh together.) Ha ha ha ha.
[23957] (Zoe whispers to her.)
[24000] BELLA, ZOE, FLORRY, KITTY: Ho ho! Ha ha! Hee hee!
[24015] ZOE: Before you’re twice married and once a widower.
[24058] ZOE: (Runs to stephen and links him.) O go on! Give us some parleyvoo.
[24110] ZOE: Go abroad and love a foreign lady.
[24195] ZOE: (Holds up her hand.) Stop!
[24201] ZOE: That’s me. (She claps her hands.) Dance! Dance! (She runs to the
[24212] ZOE: (Turns the drumhandle.) There.
[24222] ZOE: (Twirls round herself, heeltapping.) Dance. Anybody here for there?
[24227] seizes Zoe round the waist. Florry and Bella push the table towards the
[24228] fireplace. Stephen, arming Zoe with exaggerated grace, begins to waltz
[24248] time sounds. Stephen and Zoe circle freely. The lights change, glow,
[24280] (Zoe and Stephen turn boldly with looser swing. The twilight hours
[24293] ZOE: (Twirling, her hand to her brow.) O!
[24300] ZOE: I’m giddy!
[23673] ZOE:
[24428] ZOE: (Fanning herself with the grate fan.) I’m melting!
[24486] (The two whores rush to the halldoor. Lynch and Kitty and Zoe stampede
[24491] ZOE: (Pointing.) There. There’s something up.
[24529] charge him! Disgrace him, I will! (She shouts.) Zoe! Zoe!
[24536] ZOE: (In the doorway.) There’s a row on.
[24549] lewd smile. The silent lechers turn to pay the jarvey. Zoe and Kitty