"to live within the tethers of desire is---again & again---to be shocked at how far they have come loose from reason..."
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
JAMES JOYCE b FEBRUARY 2 1882
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 - Ch. 18: Penelope. Last lines.
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