Important Quotations Explained
1. Amor
matris: subjective and objective genitive.
2. History
is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
3.
—What is it? says John Wyse. —A nation? says Bloom. A nation is
the same people living in the same place. —By God, then, says Ned,
laughing, if that’s so I’m a nation for I’m living in the same place
for the past five years.
4. .
. . each contemplating the other in both mirrors of the reciprocal
flesh of theirhisnothis fellowfaces.
5. .
. . and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower
and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so
he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going
like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.
