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Sean
McEntee
I
really think Joyce sums it up best:
O and the sea the sea crimson sometimes
like fire and the glorious sunsets and the
fig trees in the Alameda gardens yes and
all the queer little streets and pink and
blue and yellow houses and the rose gardens
and the jessamine and geraniums and cactuses
and Gibraltar as a girl where I was a Flower
of the mountain yes when I put the rose
in my hair like the Andalusian girls used
or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed
me under the Moorish wall and I thought
well as well him as another and then I asked
him with my eyes to ask again yes and then
he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain
flower and first I put my arms around him
yes and drew him down to me so he could
feel my breasts all perfume yes and his
heart was going like mad and yes I said
yes I will Yes.
James Joyce, Ulysses
But,
if pressed, I will say that my work is also
intended to be humorous: a mix of satire,
vaudeville, and slapstick.
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