How To Use Ulysses In A Sentence
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The original Ulysses may have been Ithacan, but this one is more of a Spartan in temperament.
Big Questions and Little Trinkets
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And I think that if Mr. Sidgwick had pondered the strange words of Ulysses, com 'altrui piacque, he would not have said that the preacher and prophet are lost in the poet.
Dante
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He excoriates the McSweeney's crowd and "the ridiculous dithering of John Barth ... [and] the reductive cardboard constructions of Donald Barthelme," and would excise from the modern canon "nearly all of Gaddis, Pynchon, DeLillo," and — while he's at it — "the diarrheic flow of words that is Ulysses ... the incomprehensible ramblings of late Faulkner and the sterile inventions of late Nabokov.
New & Noteworthy
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English in the West Indies; or, the/[Page xi]/Bow of Ulysses '(the long bow of Ulysses it should have been), provoked numerous damaging replies, the most effective of which was' Mr. Froude's Negrophobia; or,
New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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It was hoped that the Ulysses's skill would prove decisive in the tough battleground of Beta Centauri.
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She was obliged to obey, and she called Menelaus in her own voice, and Diomede in the voice of his wife, and Ulysses in the very voice of Penelope.
Tales of Troy: Ulysses, the sacker of cities
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Further, Newton's assumption that Wallace is the sole practitioner of the artful defusion of 'high brow' pretension by 'street slang' is an overstatement -- recall Joyce's exhausting of the entire practice in his "Oxen of the Sun" episode of Ulysses where the whole history of the English language is satirized, equally, from its inception to his contemporary cockney.
Omer Rosen: Footnoting David Foster Wallace: Part 1
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He also repeated Judge Woolsey's famous remark about Ulysses being ‘emetic rather than erotic’ though he did not refer the court to his source.
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James Joyce's Ulysses'challenged the literary traditions of his day.
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Coleman drew an analogy between Cheney and my favorite historical figure, Ulysses Grant.
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Striking testimony to the enduring power of Ulysses is that we mark not the birth of its author or the publication of the book but the imagined day of the fiction.
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I liked the bit in Ulysses where the guy remembers getting fed: Softly she gave me in my mouth the seedcake warm and chewed.
The Gin Closet
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Satyam you brought up Shakespeare; let me add Joyce: much as I love Ulysses and Leopold Bloom, the novel does not "teem".
NAACHGAANA
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The Irish were no better able than others to comprehend Ulysses, and only those gullible enough to answer the author's snobbish call for a lifetime's dedication to scholia could begin to penetrate the double darknesses of Finnegans Wake.
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Ulysses says, 'do not give all good things to all men, and often a man is made unfair to look upon, but over his ill favour they fling, like a garland, a power of lovely speech, and the people delight to _look_ on him.
Short Studies on Great Subjects
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Ulysses cannot abide the idleness of age and continues to reflect: "How dull it is to pause, to make an end, / To rust unburnished, not to shine in use!
Peter Davis: Milestone or Millstone?
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He carried off the stiff, tormented froideur that makes the character both crucial and problematic in Ulysses.
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The other reason is that it’s a slim novel – I’d have liked to try a James Joyce novel, and I have a copy of Ulysses… but it’s huge I also own Anthony Burgess’ Here Comes Everybody, his study of, although there’s little point in reading about, unless I’ve read Joyce, Joyce, Joyce*.
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These voltages would also explain the radio emission from energetic electrons observed near Jupiter by the Ulysses spacecraft.
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The legend of the Flying Dutchman is as old as Homer, who showed us Ulysses as an unresting traveler, yearning for home and domestic joys.
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I didn't know that before I got all accusative of it copying Being Erica ... do all English majors at one point study the phallic imagery in James Joyce's Ulysses?
Tweets For Today
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Ulysses, or "Lys" as the neighbors called him, was the oldest of six children -- three boys and three girls.
Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers
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Rather than motocross or rally off-roading, the Ulysses is intended to potter along fire trails and bridle tracks.
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Anointed and fragrant as an Asiatic despot, the strong Ulysses would sometimes revolt against this effeminateness.
Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel
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Sayanora, Zetsubou-Sensei: The Power of Negative Thinking may not be as relentlessly intertextual as Ulysses, but this Japanese import is nearly as rich in puns, social commentary, pop-culture parody, and allusions to TV shows, novels, movies, and manga.
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Ulysses is a terrible novel and deserves to die an ignominious death.
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Let no guilty man escape, if it can be Ulysses S. Grant.
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So, today, as I walked along the prom, I resolved to buy Ulysses.
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Ulysses is rich in liturgical references, Latin phrases, and catechetical stylistics.
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Is it comparable then to the greatest novel of the century, Ulysses?
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Tripmaster Monkey opens with a pastiche of Ulysses's third chapter, Stephen Dedalus's ten-page interior monologue.
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Thanks to pick-up ion measurements, Ulysses can make observations of comet tails at large distances from the Sun.
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I'm afraid I never got further than the first five pages of 'Ulysses'.
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Once banned, often excoriated, still dauntingly difficult, Ulysses has become the canonical twentieth-century novel.
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The novel Ulysses is rich in liturgical references, Latin phrases, and catechetical stylistics.
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I'm afraid I never got further than the first five pages of 'Ulysses'.
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I'm afraid I never got further than the first five pages of 'Ulysses'.
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Janet long remembered the day in February 1922 when Sylvia placed a blue-and-white copy of Ulysses in the window of the shop.
ISAAC CAMPION
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I'm afraid I never got further than the first five pages of 'Ulysses'.
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Mr. Flint, any more than Ulysses himself, cannot recall the tempests when his own followers have slit the bags -- and in sight of Ithaca!
Mr. Crewe's Career — Volume 3
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Classic American wanderers go in twosomes across the land, where European ones, from Ulysses to Wilfred Thesiger, travel most typically alone.
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In his great novel Ulysses, James Joyce, punning on the old line ‘An Englishman's home is his castle’ reflects that ‘The Irishman's house is his coffin’.
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You might imagine, therefore, that the appearance of Ulysses would have been greeted with cries of joy and acclamation from the literary intelligentsia.
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Ulysses took his revenge while Polyphemus was asleep, driving a sharpened and heated log into the single eye of their cannibal captor.
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The ashplant brandishing is as much satire as mythmaking, but it points up the deeply Romantic underpinnings of Ulysses.
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The archetypal image in western literature is the journey of a man like Ulysses whose long trials and tribulations lead to arriving home older, braver, and wiser.
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James Joyce's Ulysses is another classic that is instantly recognisable from its original greeny / blue cover
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Ulysses into Hades to interrogate Teiresias, might be called a pictorial epic of Hades.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882
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NoNo is the funny little red (nail-eating) robot with rubber sucker feet, given from Ulysses to Telemicus, as a birthday present.
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Book Development" is like when you have the Magical Conversation with your Potential Agent, and the Agent asks you where you see your Revisions headed, and you are all like, "I really envision this novel as a sort of homage to Anna Karenina, with certain postmodernist elements, and of course the meta-narrative which references freely both The Society of the Spectacle and Ulysses," and your Potential Agent is all like, "Yeah, totally!
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Ulysses circles the Sun in just over six years, which is roughly the time it takes the Sun to go from the minimum to the maximum of its activity cycle.
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The 1984 edition has facing pages intended to show "synoptically," i.e., by using a complex code of symbols on the left-hand pages, the growth of Ulysses from manuscripts through final proof revisions.
The Scandal of 'Ulysses'
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Powerful whirlpools have killed seafarers and devoured an occasional small boat - but not Ulysses' 20-oar galley nor modern ships.
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Thus, when she noted that Ulysses was in its sixth edition, she assumed that her readers knew this was no ordinary novel.
ISAAC CAMPION
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As you may have learned when discussing your other 'interests' like Ulysses, or experimental theatre, it's less important that you be able to actually discuss any real content, than that you be able to give reference points that sound like you must have in - and di-gested said content.
Jilly Gagnon: So You Wanna Sound Like You Listen to NPR...
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Butterflies are the best-known invertebrates in the hotspot, with a few species of Ornithoptera (birdwing) butterflies, particularly O. allotae and O. victoriae – both large, prominent and spectacular species – and the blue emperor swallowtail (Papilio ulysses) found in the Bismarcks and Solomons.
Biological diversity in the East Melanesian Islands
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Since its publication, Joyce Ulysses has been receiving controversial criticisms.
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Joyce, living through the next decade in polyglot Trieste, finished the Portrait and began Ulysses in 1914.
James Joyce
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Penelope, the wife of Ulysses, has been waiting many years for his return from the Trojan War.
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We fly past the cliffs of Ithaca, Laërtes 'realm, and curse the land, fostress of cruel Ulysses.
The Aeneid of Virgil
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Since its publication, Joyce Ulysses has been receiving controversial criticisms.
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Let's say you're literal-minded enough to look for the meaning in everything, that you check the placards next to abstract paintings and you couldn't buy Ulysses without an authoritative guide to explain the references.
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Poets do such things, so sometimes do aestheticians, and so does Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses.
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This daughter of Atlas has got hold of poor unhappy Ulysses, and keeps trying by every kind of blandishment to make him forget his home, so that he is tired of life, and thinks of nothing but how he may once more see the smoke of his own chimneys.
The Odyssey
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Scientists will also dig into the puzzling asymmetry in the Sun's magnetism that was discovered by Ulysses during the first polar passes.
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A balky putter is what kept Dunlap picking his spots these last few years, still circling the globe like some Ulysses in cleats.
One guy who refused to wilt
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Ulysses brooked not this, nor even in such straits did the Ithacan forget himself.
The Aeneid of Virgil
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James Joyce uses the topos of the Wandering Jew in his Ulysses
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In February, a radio reading of Ulysses began with 20 45-minute, perplexing, soporific episodes running through to June.
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Some just make the snarker look like an arse to me, like Shaw on Joyce: I have read several fragments of 'Ulysses' in its serial form.
The Snark of Our Elders
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His refusal to take part in the family's prayers for her seems to have stimulated that remorse of conscience, that "agenbite of inwit" which reechoes through Ulysses.
James Joyce
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Working in the City, he told himself, would be ashort-term thing: "Putting aside a few quid, and then sitting in a farmhouse in the south of France, writing my Ulysses.
Is the British middle class an endangered species?
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But do have a stab at Ulysses, if only to see how linguistically inventive and original Joyce was.
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Alcinous," answered Ulysses, "there is a time for making speeches, and a time for going to bed; nevertheless, since you so desire, I will not refrain from telling you the still sadder tale of those of my comrades who did not fall fighting with the
The Odyssey
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A month later Lincoln was dead, and it would be Andrew Johnson, the great accommodator of the defeated South, who set the tone of presidential racial policies for decades to come, with the brief exception of Ulysses S.
Two books on blacks and the White House
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William Belknap, secretary of war under Ulysses Grant, was impeached by the House on bribery charges and resigned from office.
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The Bulldogs (0-3) remain winless this year, their only touchdown coming off a 3-yard run from Ulysses Banks in the second quarter.
USATODAY.com
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But the wily Ulysses had tied his men under the bellies of the animals.
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Feel free to shred it into tiny little pieces (as I was sorely tempted to do when I finished Ulysses after two months of struggling through, which my beautiful and supersmart sister told me would have been in the spirit of the book … I do love her sense of humor).
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The act of twisting around made her shot aimed at Hydrogen Guy go wild, winging Ulysses J. Kramer's monument.
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In the Aeneid of Virgil, which was written in Latin, Odysseus is called Ulysses.
Ulysses
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Ulysses S. Grant's only daughter wed in the White House at the age of 18, in "perhaps the greatest American social event of the nineteenth century, " according to presidential historian Doug Wead.
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For this reason it seems possible that the somewhat fearsome reputation of Ulysses, the popular idea of its lofty unreadability, owes as much to its erratic attention to image as to the more widely famous difficulty of its language.
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His protector had been falsely put to death by Ulysses and because of this, Ulysses was forever suspicious of Sinon.
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Two historical circumstances render this questioning especially relevant to an understanding of the cartographic rhetoric of Ulysses.
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Mr. Ulysses knew too much to start on without animals, and fretted around for several days.
An Odyssey of the North
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1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Chattanooga begins - Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant reinforce troops at Chattanooga, Tennessee and counter-attack Confederate troops.
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Opposition to such terrifying ideas inspired the persecution of Ulysses.
Times, Sunday Times
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His refusal to take part in the family's prayers for her seems to have stimulated that remorse of conscience, that "agenbite of inwit" which reechoes through Ulysses.
James Joyce
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James Joyce uses the topos of the wandering jew in his ulysses.
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'Ulysses' is a set text for the exam.
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So, if you thought ‘Ulysses’ was only for highbrow academics, come along and be prepared to be pleasantly surprised!
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I first started reading Ulysses in the late 1990s, as an undergraduate at University College Dublin.
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= Compare _Met_ XIII 7-8 (Ajax speaking of Ulysses) 'at non Hectoreis dubitauit cedere flammis,/quas ego sustinui, quas hac a classe fugaui' and _Met_ XIII 384-85 (the death of Ajax) 'Hectora qui solus, qui ferrum ignesque Iouemque/sustinuit totiens, unam non sustinet iram'.
The Last Poems of Ovid
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Thus, in Ulysses, Joyce examines deconstructive neocapitalist theory; in Finnegan's Wake he analyses structural neocultural theory.
Xml's Blinklist.com
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And, even though Patrick Mason's production is presented by Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum Company, I question his decision to abstract the play from its Irish setting with its echoes of the Ulysses Night-town sequence.
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Amid farcical scenes he managed to get a copy of Ulysses impounded at the docks, despite the reluctance of customs officers.
Times, Sunday Times
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The latter are discouraged by the misfortune of Warna] 25 Warna, under the Grecian name of Odessus, was a colony of the Milesians, which they denominated from the hero Ulysses, (Cellarius, tom.i. p. 374.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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'There is one man whom the Goddess holds dear, struggling like Ulysses through the flood of this stormy life: he is known as Grolier to the world.'
The Great Book-Collectors
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Across five continents and a handful of minor-league professional tours, he pounded golf balls, a Ulysses in cleats.
Singh's world tour ends at Augusta
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ploughgate," and "davoch," he had clumsy wooden ploughs, the very shape of which is now almost a tradition, but which were certainly at least as primitive in {88} construction as the plough Ulysses guided in his farm at Ithaca.
A History of the Four Georges, Volume I (of 4)
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A balky putter is what kept Dunlap picking his spots these last few years, still circling the globe like some Ulysses in cleats.
One guy who refused to wilt
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Opposition to such terrifying ideas inspired the persecution of Ulysses.
Times, Sunday Times
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'Bloom' is the latest film adaptation by Sean Walsh of James Joyce's reputedly unfilmable masterpiece "Ulysses".
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Apple expurgates a comic book version of Ulysses, meaning that someone owes me five dollars and that a lot of people not at all interested in that "pretentious" book now will be.
Nick Mamatas' Journal
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The throbbing base line in the music, the sitar, and borrowed lyrics from James Joyce (I turn my head until my darkness goes – Ulysses) make this song the top of the list.
Five Best Rolling Stones Songs | myFiveBest
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Molly Bloom’s chapter, which concludes Ulysses, is the famous example of this kind of rhapsodic, blow-the-top-off-your-head writing.
Ed Park and the Fine Art of Blow-the-Top-Off-Your-Head Writing
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The author of Ulysses is not a narrator describing a subject outside himself.
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It had dragged them to court to defend their serial publication of Joyce's Ulysses.
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Just as James Joyce made it impossible for all Irish writers to novelize Dublin, so definitive and magisterial was his Ulysses, so Fellini's Roma seems to have dazzled Italian filmmakers to the cinematic potential of their capital.
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Joyce's Ulysses was first published in The Little Review about 1920 thanks to Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven the "Mother of Dada"m who prefaced and introduced Ulysseus.
Sense & Sensuality
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We see the same thing in Joyce's Ulysses, where Stephen Dedalus similarly suffers from modern meaninglessness.
A Crisis of Nonexistent Faith
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Former town, southern central Virginia, site of the surrender of Robert E. Lee to Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865, effectively ending the American Civil War.
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It was suggested, by the French surgeon Jean Riolan and the Italian naturalist Ulysses Aldrovandi, that the new teratological science claimed to understand monstrosity exclusively in terms of physical deformity.
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Sicily, alike as regards the Phaeacian and the Ithaca scenes; while the voyages of Ulysses, when once he is within easy reach of Sicily, solve themselves into a periplus of the island, practically from Trapani back to Trapani, via the Lipari islands, the Straits of Messina, and the island of Pantellaria;
The Odyssey
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I've been trying to think of a suitable Tennysonian response to your general challenge - I'll look up some more later but for now I think I'll go with Ulysses because he talks about being older: though
Reading Tennyson and why I am coming for Revenge
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Ulysses recently has drawn the fire of literary iconoclasts.
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I heard Jocasta murmur something to Ulysses; he summoned a small serving girl with a clap of his hands and sent her zooming off into the lanterned half-dark of the gardens, presumably in search of him.
Drums of Autumn