Buck Mulligan frowned quickly and said:
--What? Where? I can't remember anything. I remember
only ideas and sensations. Why? What happened in the name
of God?
(p. 8, l. 10-13)
I like this quote for itself and also as very relevant to Ulysses itself, as the novel starts off with a relatively easily followed narrative in Episode 1 but soon will change into heavily stream-of-consciousness. This episode is told more matter of factly but later Stephen's thoughts (of past, present, and future) will intrude and even dominate the text.
I'm nervous and excited for the later stream of consciousness... curious to see if it feels similar at all to the experience of reading The Sound and the Fury.
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