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1922

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Joyce, James. Ulysses. (Paris : Shakespeare and Co., 1922).
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4300/4300-h/4300-h.htm.
"A
bowl of white china had stood beside her deathbed holding the green sluggish bile which she had torn up from her rotting liver by fits of loud groaning vomiting."
"Save China's millions. Wonder how they explain it to the heathen Chinee. Prefer an ounce of opium. Celestials. Rank heresy for them. Buddha their god lying on his side in the museum. Taking it easy with hand under his cheek. Josssticks burning. Not like Ecce Homo. Crown of thorns and cross. Clever idea Saint Patrick the shamrock. Chopsticks?"
"Chinese cemeteries with giant poppies growing produce the best opium Mastiansky told me."
"I read in that Voyages in China that the Chinese say a white man smells like a corpse."
"Piled up in cities, worn away age after age. Pyramids in sand. Built on bread and onions. Slaves Chinese wall. Babylon…"
"Flimsy China silks."
"Chinese eating eggs fifty years old, blue and green again."
"O, the chinless Chinaman! Chin Chon Eg Lin Ton."
"For them unheeding him he banged on the counter his tray of chattering china."
"Madcap Ciss with her golliwog curls. You had to laugh at her sometimes. For instance when she asked you would you have some more Chinese tea and jaspberry ram and when she drew the jugs too and the men's faces on her nails with red ink make you split your sides or when she wanted to go where you know she said she wanted to run and pay a visit to the Miss White."
"Irish by name and irish by nature, says Mr Stephen, and he sent the ale purling about, an Irish bull in an English chinashop."
"…the agnathia of certain chinless Chinamen…"
"I was in China and North America and South America."
"I seen a Chinese one time, related the doughty narrator, that had little pills like putty and he put them in the water and they opened and every pill was something different."
"The Skibbereen father hereupon tore open his grey or unclean anyhow shirt with his two hands and scratched away at his chest on which was to be seen an image tattooed in blue Chinese ink intended to represent an anchor."
"He had doubled the cape a few odd times and weathered a monsoon, a kind of wind, in the China seas and through all those perils of the deep there was one thing, he declared, stood to him or words to that effect, a pious medal he had that saved him."
"Voyages in China by "Viator" (recovered with brown paper, red ink title)."
"I read in that Voyages of China that the Chinese say a white man smells like a corpse. Cremation better."
"Orangekeyed ware, bought of Henry Price, basket, fancy goods, chinaware and ironmongery manufacturer."
".....a quarter after what an unearthly hour I suppose theyre just getting up in China now combing out their pigtails for the day well soon have the nuns ringing the angelus theyve nobody coming in to spoil their sleep except an odd priest or two for his night office the alarmclock next door at cockshout clattering the brains out of itself let me see if I can doze off."

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Joyce, James  (Dublin 1882-1941 Zürich) : Irischer Schriftsteller

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Literature : Occident : Ireland