登陆注册
5572400000029

第29章

He walked cheerfully towards the mosque of the baths. Remind you of a mosque, redbaked bricks, the minarets. College sports today I see. He eyed the horseshoe poster over the gate of college park: cyclist doubled up like a cod in a pot. Damn bad ad. Now if they had made it round like a wheel. Then the spokes: sports, sports, sports: and the hub big: college. Something to catch the eye.

There's Hornblower standing at the porter's lodge. Keep him on hands: might take a turn in there on the nod. How do you do, Mr Hornblower? How do you do, sir?

Heavenly weather really. If life was always like that. Cricket weather. Sit around under sunshades. Over after over. Out. They can't play it here. Duck for six wickets. Still Captain Buller broke a window in the Kildare street club with a slog to square leg. Donnybrook fair more in their line. And the skulls we were acracking when M'Carthy took the floor. Heatwave. Won't last. Always passing, the stream of life, which in the stream of life we trace is dearer than them all.

Enjoy a bath now: clean trough of water, cool enamel, the gentle tepid stream. This is my body.

He foresaw his pale body reclined in it at full, naked, in a womb of warmth, oiled by scented melting soap, softly laved. He saw his trunk and limbs riprippled over and sustained, buoyed lightly upward, lemonyellow: his navel, bud of flesh: and saw the dark tangled curls of his bush floating, floating hair of the stream around the limp father of thousands, a languid floating flower.

Hades

MARTIN CUNNINGHAM, FIRST, POKED HIS SILKHATTED HEAD INTO the creaking carriage and, entering deftly, seated himself. Mr Power stepped in after him, curving his height with care.

-- Come on, Simon.

-- After you, Mr Bloom said.

Mr Dedalus covered himself quickly and got in, saying:

-- Yes, yes.

-- Are we all here now? Martin Cunningham asked. Come along, Bloom.

Mr Bloom entered and sat in the vacant place. He pulled the door to after him and slammed it tight till it shut tight. He passed an arm through the armstrap and looked seriously from the open carriage window at the lowered blinds of the avenue. One dragged aside: an old woman peeping. Nose whiteflattened against the pane. Thanking her stars she was passed over. Extraordinary the interest they take in a corpse. Glad to see us go we give them such trouble coming. Job seems to suit them. Huggermugger in corners. Slop about in slipper-slappers for fear he'd wake. Then getting it ready. Laying it out. Molly and Mrs Fleming making the bed. Pull it more to your side. Our windingsheet. Never know who will touch you dead. Wash and shampoo. I believe they clip the nails and the hair. Keep a bit in an envelope. Grow all the same after. Unclean job.

All waited. Nothing was said. Stowing in the wreaths probably. I am sitting on something hard. Ah, that soap in my hip pocket. Better shift it out of that. Wait for an opportunity.

All waited. Then wheels were heard from in front turning: then nearer: then horses' hoofs. A jolt. Their carriage began to move, creaking and swaying. Other hoofs and creaking wheels started behind. The blinds of the avenue passed and number nine with its craped knocker, door ajar. At walking pace.

They waited still, their knees jogging, till they had turned and were passing along the tramtracks. Tritonville road. Quicker. The wheels rattled rolling over the cobbled causeway and the crazy glasses shook rattling in the doorframes.

-- What way is he taking us? Mr Power asked through both windows.

-- Irishtown, Martin Cunningham said. Ringsend. Brunswick street.

Mr Dedalus nodded, looking out.

-- That's a fine old custom, he said. I am glad to see it has not died out.

All watched awhile through their windows caps and hats lifted by passers. Respect. The carriage swerved from the tramtrack to the smoother road past Watery lane. Mr Bloom at gaze saw a lithe young man, clad in mourning, a wide hat.

-- There's a friend of yours gone by, Dedalus, he said.

-- Who is that?

-- Your son and heir.

-- Where is he? Mr Dedalus said, stretching over across.

The carriage, passing the open drains and mounds of rippedup roadway before the tenement houses, lurched round the corner and, swerving back to the tramtrack, rolled on noisily with chattering wheels. Mr Dedalus fell back, saying:

-- Was that Mulligan cad with him? His fidus Achates?

-- No, Mr Bloom said. He was alone.

-- Down with his aunt Sally, I suppose, Mr Dedalus said, the Goulding faction, the drunken little cost-drawer and Crissie, papa's little lump of dung, the wise child that knows her own father.

Mr Bloom smiled joylessly on Ringsend road. Wallace Bros the bottleworks. Dodder bridge.

Richie Goulding and the legal bag. Goulding, Collis and Ward he calls the firm. His jokes are getting a bit damp. Great card he was. Waltzing in Stamer street with Ignatius Gallaher on a Sunday morning, the landlady's two hats pinned on his head. Out on the rampage all night. Beginning to tell on him now: that backache of his, I fear. Wife ironing his back. Thinks he'll cure it with pills. All breadcrumbs they are. About six hundred per cent profit.

-- He's in with a lowdown crowd, Mr Dedalus snarled. That Mulligan is a contaminated bloody doubledyed ruffian by all accounts. His name stinks all over Dublin. But with the help of God and His blessed mother I'Il make it my business to write a letter one of those days to his mother or his aunt or whatever she is that will open her eye as wide as a gate. I `Il tickle his catastrophe, believe you me.

He cried above the clatter of the wheels.

-- I won't have her bastard of a nephew ruin my son. A counter-jumper's son. Selling tapes in my cousin, Peter Paul M'Swiney's. Not likely.

同类推荐
  • Seven Lost Letters 寻找巴金的黛莉

    Seven Lost Letters 寻找巴金的黛莉

    《寻找巴金的黛莉》以寻找巴金的七封信为源,牵出一位现代女性传奇而坎坷的命运。作者精湛的语言文字能力和结构能力,标志着中国非虚构文学创作的文本价值,更体现了作家忠诚于土地的精神。
  • 中国新生代农民工(英文版)

    中国新生代农民工(英文版)

    《中国新生代农民工》对新生代农民工的生存现状进行了全方位的记述。对这个数以亿计的群体存在的教育、就业、生存等诸多问题进行深入探索,提出了解决问题的对策与建议。
  • 汤姆叔叔的小屋(英文版)

    汤姆叔叔的小屋(英文版)

    《汤姆叔叔的小屋》,19世纪极具影响力的小说(其销量仅次于《圣经》),并被认为是刺激1850年废奴主义兴起的一大因素。在其发表的头一年里,仅美国本土便销售出了三十多万册,这在19世纪中叶可是天文数字。《汤姆叔叔的小屋》对美国社会的影响如此巨大,以致在南北战争爆发的初期,当林肯接见斯托夫人时,曾说到:“你就是那位引发了一场大战的小妇人。”后来,这句话为众多作家竞相引用。
  • 日常生活英语900句“袋”着走

    日常生活英语900句“袋”着走

    全书分4大类:生活、旅游、交际等,共涵盖90个话题。其中包括生活口语30个情景话题;旅游口语16个情景话题;休闲口语24个情景话题;交际口语20个情景话题;以大量实用的例句与场景会话让你将英语理解得更为透彻,从而掌握地道的表达方法。小开本的设计,方便读者携带,装到口袋里随时随地学英语。
  • 英文爱藏:我在回忆里等你

    英文爱藏:我在回忆里等你

    杨一兰编著的《我在回忆里等你》是英文爱藏丛书之一,为中英双语 对照版,《我在回忆里等你》既是英语学习爱好者、文学爱好者的必备读 物,也是忙碌现代人的一片憩息心灵的家园,让读者在欣赏原法原味和凝 练生动的英文时,还能多角度、深层次地品读语言特色与艺术之美,再配 合文章后附加的多功能、全方位巩固题型,更有助于理解并学习英……
热门推荐
  • 恶魔老公,晚上见!

    恶魔老公,晚上见!

    从她被他收养那天开始,顾颜书就对他生出一种一日为父终身为夫的想法。于是,从遇见他开始,她对他的心动就没有停止过。外人眼中的他,高贵,冷漠,疏离,高高在上不可一世。她眼中的他腹黑,傲娇,小气,幼稚,而且还是个名副其实的大醋坛子。某日,某只傲娇一脸心虚的问“媳妇,如果哪天我要是惹你生气了怎么办?”顾颜书想也没想的说“那就跪着给我唱征服。”于是第二天,顾颜书看着某男人登上娱乐头条,被指包养小三,贴出的照片却是模糊不清的她这个正室席太太时,她怒了。然而下一秒,她却看到男人出现在电视里,指名道姓的为她点唱了一首“征服”
  • 恶魔大小姐归来

    恶魔大小姐归来

    【新书:女主她每天都活在修罗场】她是复仇而来的恶魔大小姐,他是自立为王的帝国霸主。她不要爱,摒弃情,只为了让上一世抛她、弃她、害她之人,不得善终,报血海深仇!虐渣妹,手撕渣爹,怒踩渣男,以牙还牙,以眼还眼。他身份成谜,怜她、护她、爱她,只为了儿时的那一缕温暖。他冰冷无情,强势霸道,却总将她逼至墙角,对她说:“女人,你只能属于我。”
  • 仙路桃花传

    仙路桃花传

    文艺简介:两世仙山路,十里桃花缘。白话简介:某个理科僧在仙侠世界的冒险经历。标准简介:看腻了龙傲天式的主角吗?厌倦了黑社会般的门派吧!——那就来看看这本书吧。也许这不会是一本非常大红大紫的作品。但至少,笔者可以保证,将以干干净净的文字。创造出一个真正“有仙气”的世界。描绘出一群真正有资格被称为“仙侠”的人。
  • 绝宠娇妻

    绝宠娇妻

    简悠,一个从小无父无母的孤儿,可是她从来没有自卑过,相反她每天还过着有滋有味的生活!直到某年某月的某一天,她开始逐一遇到在她生命中扮演着重要角色的四个男人!到底在这场爱情的游戏中谁才是她最后真正的归属?!夜靳,一个神秘组织的领头人物,又是一个世界级集团的神秘决策人,多重的身份却没有阻碍他们的认识…“悠悠,你难道不知道早在你“捡”我回家的时候,我就属于你了吗?”程司楠,他们在浪漫的国度相识,他一眼便钟情于她!他愿意用漫长的守候换取她的心,但是真能如他所愿吗?“你不爱我吗…没关系,我愿意等…等到你的心里可以容下我!”东方宸,叱咤整个欧洲军火界的黑道首领,霸道,肆虐是本性,可是又有谁看到他内心的孤独?“简悠,你,只能属于我,我是绝对不会放你走的!”滕子枫,一个豪门的花花公子,从来就不曾在哪个女人身上停留过脚步的他,怎么也没有想到这个小女人可以如此轻易就骗走他的心!“悠悠宝贝,从现在开始,无论你走到哪里,我都跟定你了!”本文绝对为宠文!一宠到底!没有虐心!喜欢宠文的亲亲要多多支持哦!如无特殊情况,本文周日至周五每日一更,周六每日两更!
  • 电影世界大融合

    电影世界大融合

    【这是一个从警察,到神盾局特工的故事】穿越到一个由无数电影融合而成的奇异世界。香港有个会功夫的大鼻子警察,还有个搞笑的赌圣和帅气的赌侠。纽约有个富家公子哥叫托尼,英国有个身材火辣的冒险家叫劳拉。而我们的主角……却是那个刚刚放走了飙车党老大,被罢免在家的可怜洛杉矶警察……故事就从这里开始……PS:由于本书是多个电影世界融合,所以世界构架、时间线、人物和部分剧情都与电影里有些出入,请以本书为主,切勿较真,切勿对号入座。
  • 梦溪月穆煕

    梦溪月穆煕

    女主经历重重困难,为自己的父王母后报仇,自己的记忆却总出现问题,在复仇过程中重新记起自己的青梅竹马,他一直守护着她,而最终快要完成复仇时却放弃了复仇而选择用自己的所有弥补所有人的过错守护了那个世界,让那个世界平静下来。
  • 甲斐的野望

    甲斐的野望

    公元1557年,已经36岁的武田信玄喜得一子取名武田源八郎信谦,一位穿越而来不存在于正史中的人,他将会给武田家带来希望还是毁灭?
  • 东陵悲歌

    东陵悲歌

    历史的长河总不甘于平静,短暂的缓流之后是长久的咆哮汹涌。时空的裂缝出现在东陵大陆,高等文明的侵略者踏上东陵的土地!现代化的魔法军团对决远古冷兵器军队,西陵的装甲和魔法军团降临东陵大陆时,就注定了这必定是一场不平等的战争。东陵只有用他们手中的刀和一腔死战的热血去进行最后的抵抗。
  • 恶少离我远一点

    恶少离我远一点

    “洛小沫,你就不要在想他了,他已经有女朋友了,你怎么还一直忘不了他呢,现在他都不会好好的看你一眼,你这样做不值得,你知不知道。”染雪儿大声的说道,染雪儿的话深深刺痛了洛小沫的心。“洛小沫,你还爱我吗?”夏梓枫问道。“对不起,现在我已经不再爱你了。”洛小沫面无表情的回答道。“洛小沫,我会让你爱上我的,一定会的,”严宇轩大声的说道。“洛小沫,我会让你付出代价的,我不会让你有好日子过。”“到底我该怎么办,是不是要离开所有的人。”洛小沫忧伤的说道。她洛小沫受到了许多的挫折,经历了许多的苦难。他严宇轩发誓要洛小沫爱上他。他夏梓枫想追回洛小沫。
  • 我老婆是女王

    我老婆是女王

    傅洋很无奈,实力强无敌!且看他一路精彩纷呈、欢乐爆笑。走向巅峰!