Printed matter

10: "tasseled dancecards" ephemera


13: "— That's folk, he said very earnestly, for your book, Haines. Five lines of text and ten pages of notes about the folk and the fishgods of Dundrum. Printed by the weird sisters in the year of the big wind." planned

(no printed matter in Tower?)


24: "— Asculum, Stephen said, glancing at the name and date in the gorescarred book."

25: "A swarthy boy opened a book and propped it nimbly under the breastwork of his satchel."

26: "the studious silence of the library of Saint Genevieve where he had read, sheltered from the sin of Paris, night by night. By his elbow a delicate Siamese conned a handbook of strategy. "

26: "His hand turned the page over."

26: "They bundled their books away, pencils clacking, pages rustling."

33: "— I want that to be printed and read, Mr Deasy said."


40: "Nor in the stagnant bay of Marsh's library where you read the fading prophecies of Joachim Abbas."

41: "Reading two pages apiece of seven books every night, eh? I was young. You bowed to yourself in the mirror, stepping forward to applause earnestly, striking face. Hurray for the Goddamned idiot! Hray! No-one saw: tell no-one. Books you were going to write with letters for titles. Have you read his F? O yes, but I prefer Q. Yes, but W is wonderful. O yes, W. Remember your epiphanies on green oval leaves, deeeply deep, copies to be sent if you died to all the great libraries of the world, including Alexandria? Someone was to read them there after a few thousand years, a mahamanvantara. Pico della Mirandola like. Ay, very like a whale. When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once..."

41: "About the nature of women he read in Michelet. But he must send me La Vie de Jésus by M. Léo Taxil."

42: "Yes, used to carry punched tickets to prove an alibi if they arrested you for murder somewhere." ephemera

42: "Rich booty you brought back; Le Tutu, five tattered numbers of Pantalon Blanc et Culotte Rouge"

43: "Maud Gonne, beautiful woman, La Patrie, M. Millevoye, Félix Faure" abstract

48: "The virgin at Hodges Figgis' window on Monday looking in for one of the alphabet books you were going to write."


55: " Kind of stuff you read: in the track of the sun. Sunburst on the titlepage. He smiled, pleasing himself. What Arthur Griffith said about the headpiece over the Freeman leader: a homerule sun rising up in the northwest from the laneway behind the bank of Ireland."


57: "He took a page up from the pile of cut sheets. The model farm at Kinnereth on the lakeshore of Tiberias."

61: "The book, fallen, sprawled against the bulge of the orangekeyed chamberpot."

62: "He turned over the smudged pages. Ruby: the Pride of the Ring."

62: "Must get that Capel street library book renewed or they'll write to Kearney, my guarantor."

65: "In the table drawer he found an old number of Titbits."