My wife cheated on me... this is something I'm not very proud of. I already acknowledged, the moment I stepped foot out of my house, that my own precious Molly Bloom would begin her affair with Boylan in due time. I'm a little mad at myself for letting this happen, not that I didn't know that it would happen, although. People have acknowledged me as a cuckhold, despite how I felt as if this was out of my control. During the time in which my wife held her affair, I did have a bit of my own adventure, and I decided to do a few charitable deeds. People have called me kind for that. I visited Dignam's funeral, helped Paddy understand the life insurance policy (although I was accused of being a defrauder of windows and children), fed some cakes to hungry sea gulls, the list goes on. People have said that I posses the tendency to accept more than I need. Perhaps that's why I let Molly have her affair, which secretly pains me. People have said that I am one of the most confusing and odd conversationalists. They have been flabbergasted by my complex vocabulary (take how I explained the transmigration of souls, metempsychosis, to my dear wife, or how I described the sexual pleasure of a hangman during their execution). People have thought of me as depressing, due to how I sulk around the city to escape my wife's affair or to ponder about my dead father. People, have debated whether I'm really that much of a saint as I am, perhaps my fascination of natural bodily habits such as urination and defecation may have thrown people off kilt. Think whatever you will of that but one thing is for sure: the world is full of the strange, the wild, the insane, the dog-mad, whatever you will, judge me only once you understand where my trouble and torment comes from.
As I was reading through Ulysses, I happened to come across yet another dramatic description of Stephen Deadalus' mother. However, I feel as if this is a more horrific image to take in, despite it having less words than the previous quote I used in blog 1. A representation of Telemachius' mother's passing in Odyssey __________________________________________________ "Stephen's mother, emaciated, rises stark through the floor, in leper grey with a wreath of faded orangeblossoms and a torn bridal veil, her face worn and noseless, green with gravemould. Her hair is scant and lank. She fixes her bluecircled hollow eyesockets on Stephen and opens her toothless mouth uttering a silent word. A choir of virgins and confessors sing voicelessly. THE CHOIR: Liliata rutilantium te confessorum [May the troop of confessors, glowing like lilies, surround you] Iubilantium te virginum [May the choir of virgins, jubilant, take you in] From the top of a tower Buck Mulliga...
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