RFI: Why Does Ulysses Get All Yessed Out In The Last Chapter?

Then I'd taken the kiss of seedcake back from his mouth
Going deep South, go down, mmh, yes,
Took six big wheels and rolled our bodies
Off of Howth Head and into the flesh, mmh, yes,

He said I was a flower of the mountain, yes,
But now I've powers o'er a woman's body, yes.

Stepping out of the page into the sensual world.
Stepping out...

To where the water and the earth caress
And the down of a peach says mmh, yes,
Do I look for those millionaires
Like a Machiavellian girl would
When I could wear a sunset? mmh, yes,

And how we'd wished to live in the sensual world
You don't need words--just one kiss, then another.

Stepping out of the page into the sensual world
Stepping out, off the page, into the sensual world.

And then our arrows of desire rewrite the speech, mmh, yes,
And then he whispered would I, mmh, yes,
Be safe, mmh, yes, from mountain flowers?
And at first with the charm around him, mmh, yes,
He loosened it so if it slipped between my breasts
He'd rescue it, mmh, yes,
And his spark took life in my hand and, mmh, yes,
I said, mmh, yes,
But not yet, mmh, yes,
Mmh, yes.

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But the last chapter is Molly!

And what about "In Bloom"? Why does Ulysses get all Nirvanaed out in the fourth chapter?

And here's a scary thought: Stephen Patrick Dedalus.

Happy Bloomsday everyone!!!

then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yessed and then he asked me would I yessed to say yessed my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yessed and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yessed and his heart was going like mad and yessed I said yessed I will yessed

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DO U SEE?

tell the moon don't tell the marcher

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For next week's @NewYorker -- the Anniversary issue, released on the Feast day of Saint Valentine -- I wrote about desiring & loving ULYSSES. https://t.co/8InvRQjEI0

— Merve Emre (@mervatim) February 7, 2022

ha, i never realized the origin story of the title of the ILM Yes thread.

i still haven't read ulysses but i enjoy reading about reading about it

Ohhhh now I get it

Also Penelope has the best fart in literature imo

I feel some wind in me better go easy not wake him have him at it again slobbering after washing every bit of myself back belly and sides if we had even a bath itself or my own room anyway I wish hed sleep in some bed by himself with his cold feet on me give us room even to let a fart God or do the least thing better yes hold them like that a bit on my side piano quietly sweeeee theres that train far away pianissimo eeeee one more song

that was a relief wherever you be let your wind go free who knows if that pork chop I took with my cup of tea after was quite good with the heat I couldnt smell anything off it Im sure that queerlooking man in the porkbutchers is a great rogue I hope that lamp is not smoking fill my nose up with smuts better than having him leaving the gas on all night

that is a beautiful fart. so much more than "silent but deadly" or "the smallest squeaker" or "a pfoof in the night"

i still haven't read ulysses but i enjoy reading about reading about it

It's the first piece on Ulysses that fuses all bits of twitter appreciation of it. From a skim Nerve puts it together well.

So it’s like Patricia Lockwood’s book then?