Updated: Oct 1, 2023
"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him on the mild morning air."
- Ulysses, James Joyce
Buck Mulligan’s Mild Morning Martello Metaphors
Would the servant’s lookingglass
Be a symbol in Buck’s black mass
If it lacked that crooked crack?
Nope. That’d be too off-the-rack.
Is the bard’s borrowed noserag
Enough to make you gasp and gag
Without that tasty green snot?
Or poet’s new hue? Of course not.
And what of Mulligan’s blade?
Why aren’t any poetics played?
Because unlike tropes prior,
His razor lacks modifier?
Buck’s blade needs an additive,
The almighty adjective.
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Updated: Oct 1, 2023
“How goes the time? Quarter past. Time enough yet. Better get that lotion made up. Where is this? Ah yes, the last time. Sweny’s in Lincoln place. Chemists rarely move.”
– Ulysses, James Joyce
On the Menu at Sweny’s Pharmacy
Binge on Joyce in any flavor you wish:
Portuguese! Italian! German! Spanish!
For here, there are no out-of-water fish,
Monoglots still gnaw on their native English.
Maybe they should rename this Irish dish:
Joyceish? Bloomish? Dublinish? Ulyssesish?
Whatever the language: savor, languish.
With this feast, the goal is never to finish.
No matter the tongue, Chef PJ can cope.
So “look pleasant and pay up” for some soap.
Stay tuned for more sawed-off sonnets.
Same Sweny time, same Soapy channel.
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“Some people believe, he said, that we go on living in another body after death, that we lived before. They call it reincarnation. That we all lived before on the earth thousands of years ago or some other planet. They say we have forgotten it. Some say they remember their past lives.”
- Ulysses, James Joyce
Today’s Terrible Tercet:
Does Narcissus see himself in the snotgreen sea?
Welcome to the Age of Solipsistic Selfie.
Buck Mulligan’s Reincarnation? Me! Me! Me!
Stay tuned for more revivification.
Same resurrection time, same rebirth channel.