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This is beautifully made. The ingenuity of language, the commonality of its appreciation & respect. I hope everyone has happy #Bloomsday this year, wherever you are. I will celebrate it as I always do, by staying home & doing nothing.
& by nothing I mean working.
& by nothing I mean working.
This passage has been one of the greatest influences on me as a would be writer, not in style but in the possibility & magic of language. For as difficult as Joyce can be sometimes, we are eternally rewarded with moments such as this. 
'Listen: a foreworded wavespeech: seesoo hrss, rsseeiss, ooos. Vehement breath of waters amid seasnakes, rearing horses, rocks. In cups of rocks it slops: flop, slop, slap: bounded in barrels. It flows purling, widely flowing, floating foampool, flower unfurling.'
