登陆注册
5572400000271

第271章

d Little Harry Hughes and his schoolfellows all Went out for to play ballAnd the very first ball little Harry Hughes playedHe drove it o'er the jew's garden wall.

And the very second ball little Harry Hughes playedHe broke the jew's windows all.

How did the son of Rudolph receive this first part?

With unmixed feeling. Smiling, a jew, he heard with pleasure and saw the unbroken kitchen window.

Recite the second part (minor) of the legend.

Then out there came the jew's daughter

And she all dressed in green.

`Come back, come back, you pretty little boy,And play your ball again.'

`I can't come back and I won't come back

Without my schoolfellows all,

For if my master he did hear

He'd make it a sorry ball.'

She took him by the lilywhite hand

And led him along the hall

Until she led him to a room

Where none could hear him call.

She took a penknife out of her pocket

And cut off his little head,

And now he'll play his ball no more

For he lies among the dead.

How did the father of Millicent receive this second part?

With mixed feelings. Unsmiling, he heard and saw with wonder a jew's daughter, all dressed in green.

Condense Stephen's commentary.

One of all, the least of all, is the victim predestined. Once by inadvertence, twice by design he challenges his destiny. It comes when he is abandoned and challenges him reluctant and, as an apparition of hope and youth holds him unresisting. It leads him to a strange habitation, to a secret infidel apartment, and there, implacable, immolates him, consenting.

Why was the host (victim predestined) sad?

He wished that a tale of a deed should be told of a deed not by him should by him not be told.

Why was the host (reluctant, unresisting) still?

In accordance with the law of the conservation of energy.

Why was the host (secret infidel) silent?

He weighed the possible evidences for and against ritual murder: the incitation of the hierarchy, the superstition of the populace, the propagation of rumour in continued fraction of veridicity, the envy of opulence, the influence of retaliation, the sporadic reappearance of atavistic delinquency, the mitigating circumstances of fanaticism, hypnotic suggestion and somnambulism.

From which (if any) of these mental or physical disorders was he not totally immune?

From hypnotic suggestion: once, waking, he had not recognised his sleeping apartment: more than once, waking, he had been for an indefinite time incapable of moving or uttering sounds. From somnambulism: once, sleeping, his body had risen, crouched and crawled in the direction of a heatless fire and, having attained its destination, there, curled, unheated in night attire had lain, sleeping.

Had this latter or any cognate phenomenon declared itself in any member of his family?

Twice, in Holles street and in Ontario terrace, his daughter Millicent (Milly) at the ages of 6 and 8 years had uttered in sleep an exclamation of terror and had replied to the interrogations of two figures in night attire with a vacant mute expression.

What other infantile memories had he of her?

15 June 1889. A querulous newborn female infant crying to cause and lessen congestion. A child renamed Padney Socks she shook with shocks her moneybox: counted his three free moneypenny buttons one, tloo, tlee: a doll, a boy, a sailor she cast away: blond, born of two dark, she had blond ancestry, remote, a violation, Herr Hauptmann Hainau, Austrian army, proximate, a hallucination, lieutenant Mulvey, British navy.

What endemic characteristics were present?

Conversely the nasal and frontal formation was derived in a direct line of lineage which, though interrupted, would continue at distant intervals to its most distant intervals.

What memories had he of her adolescence?

She relegated her hoop and skippingrope to a recess. On the duke's lawn entreated by an English visitor, she declined to permit him to make and take away her photographic image (objection not stated). On the South Circular road in the company of Elsa Potter, followed by an individual of sinister aspect, she went half way down Stamer street and turned abruptly back (reason of change not stated). On the vigil of the 15th anniversary of her birth she wrote a letter from Mullingar, county Westmeath, making a brief allusion to a local student (faculty and year not stated).

Did that first division, portending a second division, afflict him?

Less than he had imagined, more than he had hoped.

What second departure was contemporaneously perceived by him similarly if differently?

A temporary departure of his cat.

Why similarly, why differently?

Similarly, because actuated by a secret purpose the quest of a new male (Mullingar student) or of a healing herb (valerian). Differently, because of different possible returns to the inhabitants or to the habitation.

In other respects were their differences similar?

In passivity, in economy, in the instinct of tradition, in unexpectedness.

As?

Inasmuch as leaning she sustained her blond hair for him to ribbon it for her (cf. neckarching cat). Moreover, on the free surface of the lake in Stephen's green amid inverted reflections of trees her uncommented spit, describing concentric circles of waterrings, indicated by the constancy of its permanence the locus of a somnolent prostrate fish (cf. mousewatching cat). Again, in order to remember the date, combatants, issue and consequences of a famous military engagement she pulled a plait of her hair (cf. earwashing cat). Furthermore, silly Milly, she dreamed of having had an unspoken unremembered conversation with a horse whose name had been Joseph to whom (which) she had offered a tumblerful of lemonade which it (he) had appeared to have accepted (cf. hearthdreaming cat). Hence in passivity, in economy, in the instinct of tradition, in unexpectedness, their differences were similar.

In what way had he utilised gifts 1) an owl, 2) a clock, given as matrimonial auguries, to interest and to instruct her?

同类推荐
  • 财务人员英语看这本就够

    财务人员英语看这本就够

    作为21世纪的财务人员,尤其是在外企工作的管理层,其职责已不再是单纯的数据记录、分类和汇总,更重要的是要进行经济现象分析,并参与企业运营和管理。这就要求财务人员具有较强的沟通能力,包括用英语进行沟通的能力。为此,创想外语研发团队根据长期的教学和实践经验编写了这本《财务人员英语,看这本就够》一书。该书内容丰富、风格新颖,英语用词专业、准确,既可满足从事财务管理、金融等工作人员的工作之需,也可为从事相关财务教学研究方面的人员提供参考辅助,为广大读者带来启发和裨益。
  • 鲁滨逊漂流记(中小学生必读丛书)

    鲁滨逊漂流记(中小学生必读丛书)

    本书是被称为“现代小说之父”的英国著名作家丹尼尔·笛福的代表作。在西方文学史上, 鲁滨孙的形象众所周之, 他航海遇险, 一个人漂流到南美洲某荒岛, 靠着双手和工具, 造房子, 修田地、种粮食, 养牲畜, 还从土著的刀下救了一个人, 取名礼拜五, 收为自己的奴隶……鲁滨孙用28年的时间把荒岛建设成为一个世外桃源, 最后又奇迹般地回到欧洲, 成为巨富。
  • 竞选风波(Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work)

    竞选风波(Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work)

    《竞选风波》是纯爱英文馆?少女成长系列的第四本,讲述了约翰叔叔带着三个心爱的侄女——帕齐、贝丝和露易丝去帮助他们的朋友肯尼思竞选议员的故事。在帮助他竞选的过程中,三个女孩受到其对手的一再抨击,她们会坚持下来吗?此外,她们还帮助一对老夫妇寻找到了一个受刺激后精神失常而失踪的少女,这又是怎么回事呢?
  • Tales from Tibet 阿里阿里

    Tales from Tibet 阿里阿里

    《阿里阿里》以一个女作家的独特视角完成了对西藏阿里地区的另一种书写,她把目光对准其他作品极少涉及的内地援疆干部,记录了他们与阿里人之间的悲欢离合,凸显了高原上人性的真实与纯粹。
  • 欧洲之行(Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad)

    欧洲之行(Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad)

    本书主要讲述了约翰叔叔带着三个侄女——贝丝、露易丝和帕齐到欧洲旅行的故事。在旅行中,他们目睹了维苏威火山喷发,他们乘坐的马车险些坠崖,约翰叔叔遭遇绑架差点丢掉性命,孩子们冒险营救……
热门推荐
  • 大清宫女

    大清宫女

    本书已完结,新文《邪王傻妃:明月空间有灵泉》请大家多多支持!!不过就是吐槽了几句电视剧中后宫嫔妃的宫斗水平太差,不够看,高敏珠就发现自己被华丽丽的穿越了。没有金手指,没有显赫的家世,甚至都不是后宫嫔妃,高敏珠被安在了刚入宫无品级的待选宫女身上。亲爹要她争宠爬床上位,想要父凭女贵,高敏珠却不想自己作死。可是,亲爹如此热衷争宠,一向冷面冷肠的四阿哥也来掺和是怎么回事?“那个叫什么明珠的……你过来给爷捏捏肩膀。”“回四爷,奴婢叫敏珠,乃是书房洒扫的宫女,不会捏肩捶腿……”“……滚过来捏肩膀,捏不好不会学吗?一点不懂上进争宠,还有没有做宫女的觉悟?”……高敏珠满头黑线,捏着扫帚在书房中凌乱了。
  • 穿越女尊妖孽夫君不要跑

    穿越女尊妖孽夫君不要跑

    叶倾雨被害醒来发现自己成了刚出生的婴儿,还是被男人生出来的?那个柔弱的美男是我爹爹?东方玉泽:“救命之恩当以身相许”顾璃优:“和我打一场,胜者为王,败者暖床,如何?”北冥离月:“小羽儿你看了人家的身子,要负责哦”梦颜溪:“美人儿,本王看上你了,当我王妃还是娶我为夫你选”玉临风:“羽儿我们是师兄妹,怎能在一起”墨莲轩“姑娘在下只是想帮你解毒才会解开姑娘的衣服,在下会对姑娘负责的”君墨画:“殿下,你好漂亮哦,画儿可以嫁给殿下吗?谁要欺负殿下我就毒她哦”夜卿羽:“唉~桃花多又不是我的错干嘛让我睡书房啊”众夫君:“谁让你到处招蜂引蝶的,哼”(本文是甜宠文哦,坑品有保证请放心入坑)
  • 家庭第一:全世界美满家庭都在坚守的幸福法则

    家庭第一:全世界美满家庭都在坚守的幸福法则

    针对现代人对家庭忽视的现象,专为25至40岁的城市主流人群量身打造的。它的问世就是要提醒那些工作狂们,应该多抽出点时间来关注自己的家庭、建设自己的家庭!
  • 第五纪元始

    第五纪元始

    第四纪元即将结束,第五纪元还未到来。新的风暴已经出现……
  • 奥森传奇

    奥森传奇

    “奥森传奇”是一本类似于开创性的异国武侠小说,人们都知道,要让读者接受一个新的事物,不是件很容易的事情,在这里非常感谢起点给我这个平台!可以让我在这里书写我的梦想。古曼大陆是一个公元600年前的波斯帝国地区王国,古曼是一个尚武的世界,也是一个强者为尊的世界,男女主角奥森和贝恩都是一名孤儿,奥森一心想要出去“捞世界”,外面的世界充满了诱惑,也充满了杀机。奥森从被逼跳崖而无意中学到绝世武功开始,他改变了孤儿院的现状,也改变了古曼大陆的现状。武功是没思想的,人却是活的,有思想的。一套绝世武功主要还是得看使用它的是什么人。人格的力量与精神的力量,往往都是形成巨大的差别。杀戮太多对于奥森来说还是觉得有点不太适应,所以本书主要还是突出人的心态和风神。最后奥森和贝恩还是回到了养育他们的院长身边,过上平静而舒适的生活!
  • 名侦探柯南之命运之瞳

    名侦探柯南之命运之瞳

    “我最大的幸运,不是重活了一次,而是遇见了你。”如果是命运赐予我这双眼瞳,我就用它永远守护你,哀,护你一生,无哀。软糖第一本书,不管成绩如何,软糖绝不弃文,放心入坑。
  • 钻石暗婚,总裁轻装上阵

    钻石暗婚,总裁轻装上阵

    他是商界的王,手段狠戾,帝国庞大。她是小公司的继承者,被未婚夫抛弃,还被准婆婆满大街追着她骂是不能生蛋的鸡。大雨夜去谈合约,掉进了恶毒的陷阱里。为了脱身,她差点压断他第三条腿,还被迫成了他的私人助理。*她要夺回公司,他悄然出手,工作生活两把抓。她要治好父亲,他请来名医团队,顺便亲自上阵试试她到底能不能生。她要夺回未婚夫,他干脆把那个男人踢去了非洲,夜夜霸着她的枕头。她要肚中的宝贝姓季,他拿来她的户口本,把她的姓前冠上了奕字……她铭记当年压迫之恨,于是麻利跑开。再捉到她时,他掐着她的小腰直接摁倒:肉沫沫,你敢让宝宝不认爹,我让你长长记心……****他说这个世界上从来没有强迫的爱情,有的只是你情我愿。所以,以我的方式宠着你,你以你的方式爱着我。
  • 姐可是传说

    姐可是传说

    我就那么顾着、盼着,些许复杂的眼眸回荡着时空的轮廓……
  • 大音希声论

    大音希声论

    本书为公版书,为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品,供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。
  • 异界的修炼手册

    异界的修炼手册

    银发女子满脸疑惑的看着楚清,问道:”为什么你从刚才就一直握着一把草?”楚清看了她一眼说道:“为了表达内心的震撼。”