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10 May 08
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A fireworks display begins. Her friends run along the beach, but Gerty stays near Bloom and leans back to watch the fireworks (she knows that men can be excited by immodest women, and she is allowing Bloom to see up her skirt). When she leaves, Bloom notices that she has a limp, and we learn that he has masturbated while she "was on display".
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Gerty's style here is borrowed from the romantic novel (Joyce's 'source' was The Lamplighter [1854], a sentimental novel my Maria Cummins whose heroine is named Gerty Flint). As in CYCLOPS the stress here is cultural myths and the modes of discourse which mediate them.
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Note the description of Garryowen, the savage animal with "hydrophobia" dropping from its jaws that we met in CYCLOPS: here Garryowen is described as "grandpapa Giltrap's lovely dog... that almost talked it was so human".
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30 Apr 08
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