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He was on his own, but he was used to it, this way. Technically speaking he was only a prince, but with his mother busy at the war front (they’d conquered three separate districts, just this past month) it was left to Connor to ensure the new mouths to feed that rushed into Stern territory had something to eat; it was his job as Prince Connor to keep the troops organised, keep the castle operational, manage resources… there were rumours of Prince Connor, the silent would-be ghost, man-turned-machine modelled from young into the person that the Queen had needed to justify her campaign of war and greed. Connor was aware of these rumours. He didn’t think much of them. He did not have time. ‘Greed’? He was the one organising supplies to ensure people in the castle had enough to eat. Maybe the slums had less (he’d never been out there, he wouldn’t know), but the influx of people - and it was a large influx - that each new district brang into these walls was difficult enough to deal with: it was the right thing to do to make sure the castle staff were fed and taken care of. It had never occurred to him to think about the world beyond it, except sometimes when the staff at the castle forgot they were in the presence of a Prince, or didn’t notice. They spoke, sometimes, of their families at home. The money they sent back. The reasons they were working there, like loyalty to Amanda was not a possible contributor. They didn’t do her justice, you know. She could be… extreme, but only when it was fair. Connor had not been punished in over three years, now. She was trying to improve people, not make them suffer.
 Still, he had a reputation for lurking, and it seemed one of the newest staffers - what did he do? Connor did not keep track of every new individual; he could not have guessed at the man’s area of work - was either unaware, or uncaring. He was writing a letter, of sorts, in the vast library. Connor had learnt some of the most basic words from the language of the latest district they’d overrun, but it was most common for those districts to learn his language; he could read over Markus’ shoulder the word for father, he thought, somewhere near the top of the page, but that was all. Money to send home, maybe? News to write back? It was rare an entire family would find employment in the castle.
So few people were literate these days. Many of the words this man scrawled on the page were things he did not recognise, because they belonged to a language that was not his, but the man wrote with confidence. “What are you writing?” Connor verbalised it, from where he stood. The man was so engrossed in his work that he wouldn’t have noticed him there. And then - when the man’s eyes snapped up - Connor realised the language barrier might go both ways. “Ec….” oh, the word - “tu écris?”
#concept: markus employed at castle doing... something idk nursing? portraiture? he could be hired bc he could keep people calm honestly#but carl is not hired so markus goes back and forth between the castle and the slums probably and it's pretty horrific#and connor doesn't know this bc he has never gone back and forth before. markus can take him on a trip sometime. it will suck (for connor)#anyway. they meet because connor wants to be able to read the writing and they teach each other the language slowly but surely#before markus knows that he's a Prince and before Connor knows that Markus is...... some form of noble from the neighbouring district#or at least WAS some form of noble before they conquered & stole it out from under them#but hey he works to keep their language alive and as stuck-up as he is he IS asking curious questions abt their culture etc#anyway this is the AU i have in my head. they become friends by a series of fortunate events. they teach each other each other's language.#PS i put french in there bc it was just a different language but it doesn't have to be french and we dont need to write anything with it#tbh it was just a place holder to get the idea of what he's doing across. he's very poorly asking what markus is writing#with his best guess at the language#child abuse mention tw#ic#jericholeader#LATE NIGHT STAYING UP TRADING WORDS and having really halting conversations in each other's language#the first time connor or markus is able to crack a joke in the other's language and they have to double- and triple-check it was on purpose#before laughing#this meme was so much fun. i am happy to write in this au becca but i won't make you i realise i just made it all up in my head#without consulting. but i am enjoying the visuals of it
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octalove · 4 years
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VI: The Dotted Line
(Batgirl/Red Hood)
Description: Jason extends an offer. Part one, two, three, four, and five.
Note: someone said Batgirl and Jason mission, and i am but a humble servant of the people. also, i almost named this chapter “Carolyn Crawford”. Hope you like❤️
TW: Decription of sex work (barely), very light gore
Being back at Batman’s side was a peculiar thing these days. Soothing and suffocating all at once; like returning home after a long, liberating trip. It felt easy, and safe. I was reminded of the first time he brought me up to a towering building top. I clung to Nightwing like a life preserver.
Once I found my footing, the building tops were the only place I felt safe. The taller the skyscraper, the higher and farther from the grim city that raised me. I wondered what would happen when I outgrew the skyscrapers, too.
November was settling like an icy blanket over Gotham. My breath wreathed around me as my chest heaved from scaling the office building I was settled on, hoping to catch a glimpse of the gray dawn as 2am turned to 3am. I could see Robin’s breath too, as he crouched like a gargoyle on the balls of his feet. Even when I pushed his arm lightly, he glared, but didn’t move. The kid had incredible balance.
“I was beginning to enjoy your absence.” He muttered.
I smiled at him. “Are you kidding? Patrol is boring without me.”
“Patrol is boring without brainless plebeians to subdue. I can make due without you.”
“So you’re saying you don’t consider me a brainless plebeian?” I replied.
His lip twitched. He liked this game. It was the birthplace of many of his preferred insults.
“Closer to a bumbling fawn.”
“I like that one.”
Damian’s disinterest in all things regarding my thoughts and feelings was a good distraction. I’d been using him for the past week since my latest brush with Red Hood. Well, Jason. It was still hard to wrap my mind around.
I knew him. He knew me. I shouldn’t have been worried; he knew nothing about me. Nothing other than who I was, anyway. I wanted to ignore whatever residual feeling was left from fighting him on the docks, and I really wanted to say I hadn’t thought about the last thing he said to me. But in truth, I’d thought of little else. The large gaps of time between our meetings left time for that.
We were looking for him tonight. More specifically, Batman and Nightwing were. Robin and I were sent to the quiet apartment rows of Crest Hill, watching over nothing in particular. Sent to keep us away from the fray. Even Robin knew it. When Batman said we’d be patrolling here, he looked like he could rip the head off a puppy.
“Movement in Coventry.”
“On it. Thanks, Oracle.”
One of the better quirks of Damian Wayne was that in the case he was spurned by his favored allies (Bruce, Dick), he quickly formed new alliances (me, Tim). Bumbling fawn comment aside, I could tell I was in his good graces tonight by utter happenstance and Batman’s shortcomings. I was nothing if not opportunistic.
“We can get to Coventry before they can.” I said quickly, keeping the nervous excitement in my voice to a minimum. He eyed me cautiously.
“Batman may be trying not to take risks, but we can handle a couple of goons. Besides,” I added. “Red Hood will probably be gone by then. He always is.” I was overselling it; Robin was already standing, eyes roving over the city scape in search of the best route to Coventry. I stood with him, then let the free-fall adrenaline send exciting jolts through my stomach as we grappled toward our destination.
I could see him, in my mind. His face on the docks, bathed with the flame of his lighter. Hear his voice, full of purpose and noble fury as he promised revenge. I understood his cause, but didn’t understand him, and that was the mystery that poisoned my mind and stole my ability to sleep. Not Red Hood. Jason Todd.
*
Robin and I perched over a factory compound on the water’s edge, Sprang River’s lower fork rushing by at the end of the factory court. A handful of men moved like ants in the flooding white lights that lit the exterior. The wind distorted the sounds of their voices. Robin must have had the same thought because he moved soundlessly to a lower roof panel, advancing on the building. I followed. One man began shouting.
“I’m going to the Northern pylon.” Robin whispered. Divide and conquer. I wasn’t going to argue. I kept my eyes on his silhouetted form to ensure he didn’t encounter any resistance on his way, then worked by way around the court, hoping I could get a good idea of the place before he reached his vantage point. The sky was lightening, and we were losing time.
Just as I was about to check the lot on the opposite side of the factory, a metal door swung open, scraping against the metal parapet. Red Hood walked out, accompanied by a man in a factory jumpsuit. I couldn’t make out their conversation.
I crept along the high factory railing as they meandered across the court, deep in conversation. I kept it up for around six minutes before his companion departed, heading for the lot.
“Robin,” I whispered into my comms. “There’s a man heading toward the parking lot. Trail him.”
“I see him.”
With Robin in the Southern parking lot a safe distance away, I watched Red Hood slowly pull away from the lights and people, heading toward the darker exhaust plants East of the court. It became a struggle to keep and eye on him and my footing at the same time, but I did it. He stopped at a motorcycle parked behind an electric turbine about a klick from the factory. The sky was a pale gray now, ever-lightening with the dawn, and the shadows were burning away with it. I lowered by self behind an electrical box attached to one of the turbines.
“We’re en route- wait, Robin-“ The comms rang in my ear.
“I gave you a direct order.” Batman growled.
“It was a stupid order.” Robin clipped.
“Where’s Batgirl?”
Red was about to replace his red helm with a motorcycle helmet, but paused. He seemed to stall for a moment, before calling out.
“Come here, little bird.”
I was more annoyed than anything. I was ready to be a step ahead of him for once. But then, I couldn’t resent him for giving me what I wanted. I stood, and took in his empty hands before approaching. He’d leaned against the metal turbine, arms crossed as he regarded me with an unreadable expression.
“They’re here, you know.” I warned.
“Call ‘em, then. I won’t move. I know I’m good, but I’d be outnumbered. Bad odds.”
I scowled. “I’m not gonna do that.” I said it because he already knew it. We both did. He leaned against the wall, crossing his arms.
“You thought about what I said.”
“Of course I did.”
He glanced around, then pulled himself up straight and moved toward me. I took a few steps back, prompting him to flash me his empty hands, raised in surrender.
“Relax, darlin’.” He said. “You don’t need to be afraid of me. I don’t want you to be. I want you to understand.”
“How? How do I understand?” I’d been trying for a month. He pulled a small piece of paper from his jacket pocket, holding it out and letting me take it, keeping a safe, considerate distance. Inside, was a number.
“Come with me. One job. Nice and easy.” He said.
“I’m not killing anyone.” I said sternly, voice dropping.
“I’m not askin’ you to.”
“And I’m not standing by and letting you kill anyone.”
“You drive a hard bargain. Fine. We’ll do it clean.” I didn’t even know if I believed him. But I was tired of trying to understand him from a safe, considerate distance.
“We’re almost at location. Four minutes.” Nightwing’s voice almost made me jump. I lifted my eyes.
“You need to go.”
He was already turning on his heel.
*
It was two days before I texted him. I got a glorious three hours of sleep over the course of them, and I kept running down either respective fork in my road before turning around and running back. In the end, I subsided to the fact that I was raised by two business-women, and Jason’s offer was at worst an opportunity. If it all went to shit, and he tried to kill me, I’d at least have some information to present to Bruce, notwithstanding the lifetime of punishment that would get me.
Our rendezvous point was in Lower Gotham Proper. By the time I got there, it was midnight, and a rolling mist had blown in from the harbor, mixing with the smog that hugged the streets and making it nearly unsafe to drive. I silently hoped Batman and Robin were okay.
As I worked my way down a narrow street, the moisture in the air was choking; causing the fabric of my pants and jacket to cling to my skin. I’d almost prefer rain to the way the mist stood still, forcing me to muddle through it. It was dark. The lights and signs on surrounding buildings didn’t seem to be able to preserve through the fog.
I saw a figure pressed against a building that looked tall enough to be Jason. As I approached, we regarded each other’s forms apprehensively. When he tilted his head, I knew it was him. I drew close.
“Jesus.” I mumbled. “Could you have picked a spookier place?”
“Don’t tell me you scare easy.” He said through a cigarette. His helmet was in his hand, but it could’ve easily been mistaken for a motorcycle helmet. The whole get-up was kind of biker-esque. I didn’t answer. Just glanced around.
“Come on.” He said. “It’s not far.”
As we began walking, it struck me how much more relieved I felt to hear his footsteps alongside my own. I was capable; willing and able to fight just about anyone Gotham could conjure up. But still, walking with him was comforting. Like I had someone to watch my back.
We even eased into a bit of conversation. Small things- things we agreed upon. Rich society, and Gotham’s war on the poor. Politicians we wouldn’t mind going missing. If you had showed me his picture next his crime scenes, I wouldn’t have pinned him.
Jason wasn’t unpleasant; it was just that his disposition was highly aloof and somewhat irritable. He had rich bronze skin, and full lips that I was sure made for a charming smile when he decided to do so (not a grin, a smile). The composition of his face was very sharp and neatly symmetrical, but still held some gaunt exhaustion, revealed by the constant tense of his jaw. His attentive dark eyes were almost always narrowed in some fashion of distaste. He never once looked at peace.
It seemed to me that he was disinterested in most anything having to do with my life, other than that he wanted me with him. His entire being was an oxymoron; a juxtaposition of unexpectedly soft and startlingly sharp and there wasn’t a way to tell which it would be.
Finally, we approached a small, industrial building with a neon sign of red, blue, and green.
The Lion’s Den
Burlesque and Drag
I raised my eyebrows. A bit on the nose if you asked me. If the name didn’t give it away, the posters and marquees adorning the brick exterior did.
“We need to talk to someone here before we go.” Jason said, pulling on his helmet, and unzipping his brown leather jacket to showcase the bat.
“Lead on.” I said, pulling up my own mask.
The music was so loud, I could barely hear myself think. The led lights lining the ceiling were cycling warm colors; red, pink, orange, yellow, the glow burning through the smokescreen that was nearly as thick as the mist outside.
Women were dancing, in lace or topless, spinning on poles and otherwise moving gracefully to the heartbeat of the place. But that wasn’t the main event- a stage lit with marquee lights, the centerpiece of which was a table, where three women sat. Their outfits were something out of Marie Antoinette’s personal wardrobe. And that’s where Red Hood was headed.
We walked up onto the stage, and while it all sort of mingled with the dim neon in the rest of the building, I still felt oddly seen. I placed myself behind Red Hood, inserted between him and one of the women. They appeared to be playing cards.
“Well, well.” Said one of the queens, with blonde hair curled and blown out like something out of the 70’s. Her exaggerated, colorful makeup was a work of art- Picasso, perhaps. “Gonna stick around for the show this time, sugar?”
Red sat down, leaning so that his arm rested along the back of the chair, lights glinting off his helm. His relaxed composure made me nervous- but perhaps it was the lack of information.
“Not this time, Trixy.” He answered.
“Pity,” Said the broad redhead beside me, her voice a low, soothing timber. “You neva’ do.”
“Don’t be rude, Sasha.” The third woman scolded, throwing down an Ace of Spades, to the visible dismay of the others. “He’s a busy man.”
“Who’s your friend?” Trixy asked.
I glanced at Red Hood before answering. “Just a little bird.”
“How delightful. Let’s get down to the nitty gritty, shall we?” Trixy said. “Did Dominique get the message to ya?”
“Refresh my memory.” Red Hood said- for my sake, I’m sure.
“Bout a week ago, a bunch of girls from the Row went missin’. Ain’t unusual,” Trixy said darkly, “Most don’t got no family or nothin’. Just us lookin’ out for ‘em. When we run outta beds here, that’s when they go missin’. But it’s different this time. Buncha girls all at once- including one ‘a the queens.”
“Tiffany Spice.” Sasha said, a solemn look on her face. “She was just comin’ into herself. Lord, I’d be devastated if somethin’ happened.”
“Some a’ the row girls been talkin’ about this real shifty fella- Baron Haus. New guy. Used to pimp out girls from the Narrows.”
“And the girls disappeared when he showed up.” I said quietly.
“Bingo.”
“How many?” Red asked.
“About eight, Tiffany included.”
��And you know where he was working from?” I inquired.
“Sha’ do. China Town. Club there called the Moonlight.”
Red Hood nodded. “Anything else me and my little bird should know?”
Trixy thought for a moment. “Baron’s got some friends in GCPD. Had some uncles in the force, or somethin’ of that nature. He’ll be missed. More dead.” She spit the term bitterly.
“They always are.” He responded, getting up from his chair.
“And Hoodie, sugar!” She called after us. “You’re a doll for this.” He didn’t reply. As we worked our way back toward the front, he spoke quietly.
“I thought it’d be better if you met ‘em yourself. Always makes it more personal.”
Batman never did that.
“Do you always make it personal?” I asked.
“It’s not fun if it isn’t.”
The freezing moisture in the air bit fiercely as we pushed open the metal screen door.
“Right.” I said. “So, the Moonlight. How are we getting there?”
“How do you think?” He said, stopping short of a rusted yellow fire escape on the side of the building. He surveyed it, then looked at me.
“Race ya.”
With surprising speed and grace, he scaled the fire escape, no sound in his wake.
“Oh, it’s on.” I fired, rushing to the bars and climbing like they were monkey bars. He disappeared over the edge of the roof, and as I made my way up, I saw him several years away, already conquering another building. I raced toward him, leaping over exhaust pipes until we were high above the fog. The city below looked like an illuminated ocean, twinkling lights just below a pillowy white surface.
I felt like a child again, overwhelmed, nearly brought to giddiness with excitement. Was this how Bruce felt, scaling rooftops with Catwoman? The small, but sure thrill of consorting with the bad guy- knowing that they were consorting with you in return?
I wasn’t a sidekick. There was no line to fall into. No predecessors, no successors, no beginning and no end. I moved like Batgirl across the shingles and concrete and metal scaffolding, but I was weightless without the Bat legacy on my chest. There was something deeply, shamefully freeing about that.
*
We were greeted differently in the Moonlight; a stark contrast to the warm welcome by the queens in the Lion’s Den. It was set up more like a smoky, refined gentlemen’s club. We drew attention from every walk of life inhabiting the bar- men in suits, women in silk, and slimy looking characters that grated offensively against the debonair theme.
Most leered for a moment, then cast their eyes away, like they’d seen something they shouldn’t have. Maybe you could consider Red Hood one of those such things.
“Mr. Hood!” There came a voice, cutting above the orchestral music- Nessun Dorma, if my musical sensibilities were still honed from my piano lesson days. “Welcome, welcome. I can only hope,” The man gave gritting smile, wound tight with visible anxiety. “That you’re here on peaceful business tonight.” He cast his nervous, monolid eyes to me. He was handsome, no older than thirty and wore a tight black vest. I didn’t let my body language give anything away; frankly, I was as in the dark as he was.
“Oh, you know me, Baron Jun,” Red Hood drawled, slowing to a halt at the bar, and leaning on it. “I don’t decide whether things stay peaceful or not. That depends on you.” I stayed standing, near his back, studying the security. Two lumbering men at the entrance, one behind Baron Jun. I wouldn’t put it past curvaceous bartender in red to have a gun, too.
“Lookin’ for Baron Haus. I heard a little rumor he works outta this quaint establishment now.”
When I’d considered the Red Hood’s contacts before, I pictured something like Batman’s relationship with Commissioner Gordon- figuring he had to have some corrupt cops or lowlife sleuths packing him with all his vast information. I never would have guessed it would be three drag queens playing cards.
A conflict passed over Baron Jun’s face, seconds long. “You… heard correctly. Word does seem to travel fast.”
“I need to pay him a visit. Remind him about some of my rules.” He admonished. It was a dripping warning, like the salivating jaws of an animal, teeth bared and pointed.
Baron Jun swallowed. “I see. Well, he um- he’s not actually here, at the moment. Maybe I can tell him you dropped b-“
“You know, Jun,” Red continued, ignoring him. “I got this really funny feeling you know what rules I’m talkin’ about.”
The look on his face was something to behold. I’d seen fear, briefly, on the faces of criminals before I subdued them and went on my way. But this was different. Fear induced by nothing but a conversation. Call it hive-mind, a power trip perhaps, but I felt this pesky sense of camaraderie that prompted me to take a few steps forward, shoulder to shoulder with Red Hood. Who was this vile little shitstain who made his living off men getting laid to play games with us? I thought about eight women, scared and abused. It was Baron Jun’s fault. Baron Haus’ fault. Everyone in this stupid bar, decorated to the taste of the men who abused them.
Baron Jun’s eyes dashed back and forth. Deny or ask forgiveness? I could see him running down those cross roads.
“He… he’s been running some shit I didn’t know about until last night. I swear I didn’t fuckin’ know.” He broke at last.
“Where are they?” I piped up.
“Who the fuck are-“ He was cut off with a bang and a scream as Red shot his knee. I was startled by the noise, but no one seemed to notice. It rang in my ear.
Give a girl a warning next time.
“Be. Fucking. Polite.” Red snapped, now advancing on the Baron. Only one of the three security guards decided it was worth the risk and stepped forward. Electric with the building energy of the whole night, I bolted forward and swung my fist into his throat. He made a choked noise and stumbled to the ground.
“Answer the question, Jun.” Red continued, this time in a taunting, sing-song tone.
“Oh, fuck,” Jun whimpered, cradling his knee. “Jesus- you- you shot me.”
“Always were a sharp one. I got a couple more bullets, and you’ve got another knee. So why don’t you sing before I get really impatient.”
“Christ.. they- they’re in the back. R-room fourteen.” His breath was labored with pain. I didn’t feel bad. Trusting that Red would handle the front and keep his promise of not killing anyone, I went to the back hallway, counting the doorways before reaching room 14. I made short work of the lock.
Some scuffling noises could be heard from the front room- but no further gunfire. I opened the door to reveal a velvet lounge, with red settees and satin curtains, along with fearful eyes looking back at me. I counted eight heads, including Tiffany Spice, who’d since abandoned his wig and gaudy attire. His make-up was streaked with long-dried tears.
“Tiffany Spice?” I asked, subservient to standard protocol despite my evening of rebellion.
“What’s going on out there?”
“Trixy sent us. You’re safe now.”
“Are the Barons gone?”
“They’re being dealt with.” I answered.
After finding them, the rest fell into place quickly. Red had indulged in some property destruction, and Baron Jun now reckoned with what appeared to be a shattered hand and some extra facial bruising.
I nodded briskly to Red and he, in turn, nodded to the bartender, who ushered the girls around.
Before departure, he knelt down in front of the Baron.
“You’re alive,” He said lowly. “Cause I’m doin’ someone a favor. If someone breaks the rules again,” He reached over and patted Jun’s pained face. “You be a good boy and come right to me. Okay?” Jun didn’t respond, nor take his bloodshot eyes off of his mangled hand, but Red straightened anyway and ushered me to the door.
Outside, we withdrew safely and quietly to a rooftop.
“Why did we leave them?” I asked.
“Trixy’s not my only contact. The bartender’s mine. She’ll get ‘em where they need to be.”
A beat.
“You knew Baron Haus wasn’t gonna be there.” I said quietly.
“Yeah.”
“That’s the only reason you promised me you wouldn’t kill anyone.”
Hesitation. “Yeah, it is.”
“Are you gonna track him down?” I asked. He didn’t answer. “Seriously.” I tried again. He sighed, then looked at me. I was seeing his eyes clearly for maybe the first time all night. It was sobering, and he held my gaze.
“Yes. Yes, I’m going to kill him.” He said firmly. I looked away.
“He’s got a track record.” He explained. “Does shit like this, gets caught, and then uses his friends in blue to get a lighter sentence. Three months, maybe. Then, he’s back. I’m not the first one to catch him. But I promise you, I’ll be the fuckin’ last.” His vitriol was oil on concrete, and I decided it was better not to light any matches. The rest of the walk was quiet, neither of us making the catalytic initiative to part ways, coming down from the adrenaline the way we’d built it; in each other’s uncertain company.
*
We settled on top of St. Luke’s Hospital, towering defiantly amidst the smaller, crowded inner city neighborhoods below. It was 4am, but I wasn’t tired. Quite the opposite; I was awash with energy, by grace of the night’s feat and the biting cold. Jason had pulled his helmet off, and was leaning against the steel exhaust pipe, myself nestled at his side.
“I have another place I need to go. Three days- Mafia business in Little Italy.” He said.
“And you want me to come?” I asked. He tipped his head.
“What can I say, doll? You’re good at this.”
I looked over the city, brow furrowing.
“Unless,” He added in a low voice, wry and challenging. “You think it’s wrong. I am the bad guy, aren’t I?”
I didn’t look at him, because I knew he was wearing a darkly arrogant expression, and I didn’t want to see it. No, there was nothing wrong about what we did tonight. Even if there was; I’d do it all again for the relief on Tiffany’s tear-streaked face.
“I’ll go.” I said. “But you have to tell me something. Honestly.” I said firmly, bringing my eyes to meet his. He cocked an eyebrow.
“Ask away.”
“Why me? Why don’t you hate me like you hate them?” Them. My family. Our family. Hate seemed a harsh word, but only after I supplied it, was I reminded of its truth. Jason studied me for a few agonizing moments, allowing only the sound of wind and distant, crying sirens.
“Carolyn Crawford.” He finally said.
“What?”
Carolyn Crawford.
I’d forgotten all about her. My life was sort of divided by this giant, barbed wire fence between before adoption and after adoption. Evidently, my brain decided that anything before adoption would be better of folded up, sealed with wax, and filed away. Traumatic memory suppression, the shrink Bruce sent me to called it- even though the only traumatic thing was the night my parents died, not everything that came before.
Nonetheless, Carolyn Crawford was somebody I hadn’t given any particular thought to in a long time. She was a woman of forty (at the time I was thirteen), and she had that snooty, Diamond District disposition that you only find in women who marry into wealth, but aren’t born with it. She was beautiful; pale skin, thin, with an air of 1950’s suave, accentuated by the auburn bob of artificial curls she always wore. Her husband was an investor in Wayne Enterprises, and she was sleeping with Bruce.
I had no reason to know, or care about this. But Jason did. When he found out, he was uncharacteristically devastated. I could imagine, in retrospect, that when you’re a boy of fifteen and you find out the man who adopted you- a man who was a holyfigure in your eyes, the good guy- was sleeping with a married woman ten years his senior, you may experience a bit of devastation. He had something, some virtuous perception of Bruce, ripped away from him, and he was given a concept that his father, too, had vices. His one vice; women.
Jason was angry. He wanted the world’s perception of Bruce to crumble alongside his own, and so he took all the valor in his teenage body and enacted his own justice.
An anonymous email was sent to just about every company partner or investor, including Carolyn’s husband, and my parents, disclosing a picture of Bruce in some secluded room at a gala, with his arm around Carolyn’s waist, leaning intimately into her ear. She had a wry smile on her face. Above the photo was a single tag line.
“Carolyn Crawford is fucking Bruce Wayne.”
My parents gossiped about the email, of course, when they thought I wasn’t leaning against the office door. But that was all I ever knew about it. Apparently Carolyn’s husband didn’t divorce her, but he did cut her off financially, which may as well have been the same loss.
That was all I heard of it, up until a charity event on a particularly cold January night. The January before Jason’s death. I was waltzing around as per usual, a cup of punch in my hand. Waiting for the clock to tick its way to eleven o’clock- when I knew my mothers would want to depart so they could get up for work the next morning. The music was lovely; fluttering strings.
“You!” It was a harsh sound, like a shrieking banshee, or the whining note of a violin when all the bow hairs are frayed.
Carolyn Crawford was marching right toward Jason, fury on her beautiful face. I didn’t catch the beginning of the conversation as I tried to make my way through the bodies, of which a few were also alarmed by the sound.
“...you’re the only one who could’ve done it, you little- don’t lie to me!”
Jason was defiant there, with his arms crossed and his lip slightly raised, but I could tell by the nervous look in his eye that she was pointing her bony finger at the right suspect. I’m certain it was Bruce who figured it out.
“What the hell are you talking about, lady?” He said.
“You know exactly what I’m talking about. I know you sent that email. Do you have any idea what you’ve done?”
“You’re outta your mind.”
“You’re going to regret this, I promise. I’m going to make sure that this follows you-“
“He didn’t send the email!” I said, pushing past a man who was eagerly watching, like it was the best thing he’d seen all night. I’m not even sure what possessed me to offer up the statement- maybe the way she was throwing her venom in his face and jabbing her finger at his chest.
“I did it.” I said. I didn’t look at Jason, but from the corner of my eye, I could see his mouth fall open. Carolyn Crawford turned on me.
“What?”
“I sent the email.” I said. We’d drawn more observers now, a small, hushed crowd of people too polite to intervene, but too curious to look away.
“Who the hell are you? And why would you do that?” Up close, I could see that she looked like she hadn’t slept. Other little things too; a pearl out place, stray hairs. She’d probably been through hell since Jason sent that email.
I leveled my gaze on her. “You really need to ask? What kind of wife-“
Slap.
Her open palm swung across my cheek so hard that I nearly stumbled into a donation table. There was a pressure in my ear, and then a stinging sensation. I put my hand to my cheek, and when I looked back up at her, she was eyeing the shocked crowd. Then, she turned, and walked briskly toward the exit, heels clicking on the marble.
Everyone stood there, looking at me. I flushed, shrinking under the weight of their eyes, feeling like an animal in a zoo. My mothers were nowhere to be found, and neither was Bruce.
In a swift movement, Jason grabbed my hand, shooting angry glares like daggers toward anyone who was looking, and ushered me into a secluded corner.
“Why did you do that? What the hell is wrong with you?” He whispered frantically, obviously battling whether he should touch my face or not. He decided not.
I gave him an insulted look. “I was helping you, jackass!”
“Well, you didn’t help!” He said, before adding, more exasperatedly. “You just got hurt.”
I shrugged, taking my hand off my cheek, probably to show him some modicum of strength, or defiance. “It’s not that bad.”
It was that bad. It was the first time I had ever been hit, by anybody. I actually wanted to cry. But I was dedicated to my tough girl role, so I didn’t.
“I’m sorry.” He said, surprising me with the fearful apologeticism in his voice. “I’m really sorry- you shouldn’t have done that. I should’ve said something. I just fuckin’ stood there like-“
“Hey! It’s okay. I did it because I wanted to. Besides, it really doesn’t matter who did what. She’s just mad she ruined her own marriage.”
He shook his head and slunk down beside me on the cold marble. The AC was offensively imposing for the middle of January, and I hugged my knees to my chest as we watched the guests disperse, dragging back the events of the night to gossip about later, like foxes carry prized rabbits.
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“Carolyn Crawford?” I repeated. “That’s what this is about?”
Jason gave me a wiry look, a lopsided smile, then threw his head back and laughed, contagiously so. I let out a disbelieving chuckle.
“I mean,” He added, “Not all of it. A little.” There was residual laughter in his tone, and it made me want to lean into him.
“A ‘little’. Okay. Should I be getting in touch with Carolyn Crawford and thanking her for rekindling this little partnership?”
“Yeah.” He said. “Send her an email.”
I laughed again. “Seriously, Jason, what the fuck are you talking about?”
His grin lingered, and his eyes fell over the city. I could see the gears turning as he considered his response. Then he just shrugged.
“You covered for me.”
“Yeah.”
“And...” He leaned back, not taking his eyes from the sprawling lights. “Somethin’ tells me you still are.”
I looked at him for a while, trying to wait him out and make him elaborate. But he didn’t. I resigned with a sigh.
“Yeah, well.” I mumbled. “Carolyn Crawford was a giant bitch.” His lips fought a losing battle against another smile.
“Personally, I’m still a little impressed she had the gall to slap you.”
“Haha. Hey- did you actually take that picture?”
He shook his head, hesitating before adding. “Dick did.”
“Shut up.”
“I’m serious.” He chuckled.
“So I took the fall for both of you.”
“Yeah, you did, Princess.”
He had this familiar, juvenile grin stuck to his face. And for the first time in a long, long time, he was Jason Todd.
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Rose Puppetry Ch4: Rose Red
Summary:
A century ago or so, Atlas set out to conquer the world.  Penny was built to be a spy, an infiltrator meant to find weaknesses in Vale’s defenses before the invasion.
She did.  Then she fell in love.  And rebelled against the kingdom that had created her.
Ch1.  Ch2.  Ch3.
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Let us step away from the scene of a heartbroken mechanical girl as she learns of the fate that has befallen her love.  Allow our attention to attend to events so long ago now they risk becoming history.  Perhaps, to some, they already are.  But the significance of these events should not be diminished or overlooked merely because of the time that has passed since their occurrence.  For they shine out like a beacon star, guiding weary travelers home and igniting hope in their hearts.
The Kingdom of Vale is ruled by a kind and just king.  One whose compassion is known throughout his own and every other kingdom.  Some would consider his Royal Majesty, Ozpin, weak, for the softness of his heart.  The wiser are able to recognize the guile behind his gaze.  They know Ozpin’s kindness comes not from the naïveté of someone born into a comfortable and luxurious life, but from continuously choosing, after seeing the horrors of the world, to do everything in his power to make it better.
One of the greatest accomplishments of Ozpin’s reign, future texts will claim, is the establishment of his Huntsman Academy.  It is not, as most would assume, an institute of military indoctrination like similar-appearing schools established in every single Atlas-controlled territory.  The Huntsman Academy does not require its graduates to swear everlasting and unyielding loyalty to its patron royal.  All it asks of them is that they should consider going out into the world and lending a hand whenever and wherever they are able.
Though not every single Huntsman or Huntress has chosen to align themselves with such noble goals, enough have that the public perception of the academy’s graduates has become one of legendary heroes.  Enough of that perception is true that, when the first overtures of invasion and war spread across Remnant from Atlas, it was those same Huntsmen and Huntresses who willingly rose to come to the aid of their besieged neighbors.
Children in Vale have grown up on stories told of their brave protectors.  Of course, the grizzlier details of how the battles go are kept away from their innocent ears.  They’ll learn soon enough, the adults murmur amongst themselves.  Let the young keep their purity for as long as they can.
Ruby Rose, in a way, was one such child.  One of her earliest memories is sitting on her Uncle Qrow’s lap, clutching an expanse of silky white fabric in her small, chubby fists, and listening to him tell the tale of the most daring huntress who ever lived, her mother, Summer Rose.  Like other children her age, Ruby was awed by the story given to her.  Unlike them, she wouldn’t be so innocent by the end.  For it wasn’t just a story, it was also a reason why her mother never came back home.
Ruby was never alone for long in that regard.  As war crept closer to Vale’s borders, more and more of Ruby’s peers came to have tales of brave parents who never returned too.  Her school even started a program for those orphaned or displaced.  That’s how Ruby came to know her childhood friends, Ren and Nora.
Nothing she heard, however, could dissuade Ruby from her dream of following in Summer Rose’s footsteps.  She told everyone she came across how she would become a hero, one who would save people and come back home.  Not many believed her, but none could bring themselves to try and extinguish the small, flickering fire they saw within her.  Such a hopeful thing was rare, and had to be protected.
It came to be that Ruby gained a reputation long before she was ever to be allowed near a battlefield.  During her initiation to the Huntsman Academy, she stepped in front of one of her classmates, a young heir to the renown Arc family, Jaune, and defended him from bullies who thought him unworthy of upholding his family title.  Rather than taking up a sword or a rifle, the commonest of weapons chosen among her peers, Ruby chose a scythe, one she crafted herself, to fight with.  Most scoffed at that, or her perpetually cheerful demeanor.  They called her brazen attitude, hubris, and her determination, silliness born of inexperience.
Then, they saw her fight.  Saw the swift ruthlessness of her attacks.  Only the most stubborn would refuse to change their minds about Ruby Rose.
Ruby could never bring herself to actually wear her mother’s old, white cloak—the only relic of the parent she never got the chance to know.  Rather she commissioned one similar to it in all but one detail.  Hers was ruby red.  Others would make jokes about the cloak and the blood of her enemies, but never Ruby.  For all she could be considered a brutal fighter, she was never a heartless one.
It is this attribute that made Ozpin take notice of her.  He had seen many brilliant fighters pass through his academy before Ruby, but he found not many would reach a genuine hand out and help their defeated opponents stand up again.  More than that, even less could inspire a spark of hope in those around them quite like she could.
Ozpin observed Ruby from afar all during her academy years.  A plan began to form in his head of what he could do with her, but he did not wish to impose it on her.  The ability to choose is something he regarded too highly to take away from another.  So, he waited, and watched.  When Ruby graduated, and fully came into her own, that’s when he approached her.
War hadn’t come to Vale yet, but it was going to.  Ozpin had attempted prevention with peaceful overtures, but he knew they wouldn’t last for long.  It was time to make preparations for his people.
It is said, once upon a time, there existed four great Relics in the world, one in each kingdom, of untold power.  Not many believe the tales anymore.  Years have passed without sighting or word of such great devices.  If they truly exist, people wonder, why haven’t the kingdoms’ monarchs used them to save them from Atlas?
In truth, attempts were made.
The rulers of Mistral regularly sought guidance from the Lamp of Knowledge.  It is what they learned from asking it questions that most aided them in forging their treaty with Atlas.  Though they kept war from their doorstep, they now live in constant fear of it returning.  They have used up all three of their questions and have to wait a hundred years to have another three.
The last Vacuan King rode into battle against Atlas with the Sword of Destruction firmly held aloft in his hand.  He cut down innumerable automated foes with its power.  For a time, it was believed he and the sword would single-handedly push back the invaders.  But utter Annihilation proves tricky to control, and there are rumors that the destruction of Vacuo’s oasis may not have been completely done by Atlesian hand.
The Staff of Creation was once the prized possession of Atlas.  The only reason it did not remain so was the actions of a simple soul.  An assistant in the palace’s kitchen, with the aid of his family, stole the staff and smuggled it out of the kingdom.  No one in Atlas or Mantle knows where Oscar Pine went, but they do know what happened to his family at the hands of Hazel Rainhart, for refusing to give his plans up.
Ozpin remembers the day Oscar came to him clearly.  The worry and fear in the young boy’s face.  The knowledge of everything he had given up to get such a powerful relic away from where it, or at least what remains of it, would be abused and corrupted weighing down on him.  Ozpin had done his best to help Oscar, but there are some wounds that no stranger can help heal.  The only thing he’d truly been able to do was swear he’d protect what remains of the Staff of Creation from further harm.  And so he had done his best.
The Staff’s condition continued to deteriorate with each passing day.  Ozpin couldn’t say he knew exactly what the General King of Atlas had done to it.  How he’d managed to split its crystal, or what he’d done with the missing part.  Ozpin only could know of the results, the broken state of the relic in his kingdom that did not truly belong there.
For the first time of his reign, Ozpin consulted Vale’s relic, the Crown of Choice, in the hopes it could help him understand the best course of action.  It didn’t.  The Crown simply showed Ozpin the decision he already knew he was going to make.
He could not repair the Staff of Creation.  Not without recovering its missing piece from whatever fate had befallen it.  What Ozpin could do was reforge its remains into something new.  A final act of creation by the broken relic, and a mechanical device known as the Silver Eye was born.
The Silver Eye did not function like the relics.  The only way its power could be used was if it were bonded to a person.  Someone chosen and deemed worthy of the monumental task of protecting and preserving life.  Ozpin made the choice, and he chose Ruby to be its guardian.  She accepted.
Tragically, Ruby, to the present day, has not gotten the chance to use the Silver Eye.  It was successfully bonded to her and turned her pale blue eyes the most brilliant of silvers.  Yet, before she could full understand it, her girlfriend’s past caught up to her and stole them both away.
Ruby knew who Penny was before she came to Vale.  On the night they admitted their love, Penny told her everything about where she came from and what her mission was in Vale.  Ruby held Penny as she admitted that what she was meant for and what she wanted to be were two entirely separate things.  Ruby promised Penny she loved her regardless.  She would help her.  They would forge a new future together.
The chance was stolen from them.
Later, Ruby wouldn’t really remember the attack itself.  Her recollections of the event, and most of the time directly following it, would come to be vague and murky at best.  The one thing that would come back to her would be being forced to kneel before the General King, as he gazed down at her like a prize.
Long had Ironwood desired to have one of the Huntsmen or Huntresses of Vale.  What better weapon was there, he thought, than one plucked directly from the enemy itself?  What had a better chance of outsmarting Vale’s forces than one of their own?  Of course, she would need some convincing, but that was hardly an issue.
Once upon a time, Ironwood had sliced off the hand of the King of Vacuo and stolen the Sword of Destruction from its failing grasp.  His kingdom may have lost their original relic, but that hardly mattered to the General King.  Not when he’d gained something that could aid his kingdom’s conquest far more than it.
And Ironwood’s scientists had been successful in manipulating the powers of Destruction.  Watts, in particular, was able to augment soldiers considerably with the dark substance the sword provided them.  Controlling their newfound Grimm forces did prove difficult.  Until the forging of the Salem Device, that is.  A mysterious, dark, twisted crown that afforded them such an ability as to command the forces of Destruction.
It was never really a question of if they’d transform Ruby, their prized, prisoner huntress, into one of these denizens, so much as it was a matter of when.  And so, soon after her capture, Ruby Rose was lowered into one of the deep, dark Pools of Annihilation, and Destruction consumed every inch of her it could.
But, it should be known, Destruction could not consume all of her.
For even then, unknown to the Atlesians who watched her transformation, the Silver Eye remained with Ruby.
It is slowly beginning to wake up.
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Hello! I just finished Madoka Magica (plus movies) and I have trouble understanding main themes, especially when it comes to Homura and Madoka's relationship. Could summarise briefly what are your thoughts on them?
Hello anon!
Thank you so much for this ask! I have wanted to talk about Madoka since forever, but I had never gotten the chance.
First of all, I will mostly concentrate on the series and I will mention the movie only in the last part of the meta. This is because the story told by the series can be considered finished, whereas the one told by the movie is not really over. Moreover, I have re-watched the series recently, while I watched the movie some time ago, so I remember it less.
When it comes to the main themes, I think there are several and they are all highlighted by short lines within the show.
The most important one is this:
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Madoka is a story about wishes. To be more precise it is a story about people having to understand what they really want and which kind of wishes can help them reach happiness and a good outcome and which ones do not.
This theme is clearly underlined by the worldbuilding since in order to become magical girls the characters have to make a wish and their powers and abilities are greatly influenced by that wish. The girls have to find something they wish so strongly they can dedicate their whole lives to it without regrets.
This theme is explored in several ways and these different prospectives are linked to secondary themes. Each secondary theme is illustrated by each girl’s subplot and they all come together in Homura and Madoka’s stories even if in different ways.
To be more precise I would say there are two main secondary themes.
1) Growing up and what it means which is introduced through Mami’s arc.
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It’s not that it was her dream to work somewhere, but she is still living the way she wants to live. Some dreams can come true that way.
So you can make how you live your dream?
2) The importance of integrating opposites and to overcome a black and white vision of the world which is explored through Sayaka and Kyouko’s inverted arcs.
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MAMI: THE CHILD BEHIND THE IDEAL WOMAN
Mami is introduced as a mentor figure to Sayaka and Madoka. She is older and appears more mature than the two other girls. Moreover, she offers to guide them and to give them advice.
It becomes soon clear that Madoka wants to become like Mami whom she sees as a sofisticated person and as far more adult-like than herself.
This fits with the image Mami wants others to have of her. This ideal image is shown also by Gertrud, the first witch Mami fights:
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Gertrud is the rose garden witch and has several attributes Mami shares as well. This is not surprising. As a matter of fact each witch in the series is meant to underline something about the magical girl who fights her. In other words, they can often be seen as embodiments of the girls’ fatal flaws.
When it comes to Gertrud, I would say the witch is more than anything a representation of some superficial aspects Mami presents herself as having. For example, they are both associated with flowers. What is more, the witch is said to be distrustful and Mami’s fight against her has the girl being extremely cautious and prudent.
This battle underlines Mami’s experience and strength and makes so that Madoka starts to wish to become like her senpai.
In order to do so, Madoka decides to become a magical girl without thinking further about her wish since she only wants to become a magical girl. Mami’s reaction to this is important:
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Telling Madoka to wish for a cake is an extremely superficial advice and it is very different from what Mami previously told her two apprentices. This is because in this moment Mami shows that she is really just an extremely lonely girl who wants someone with her. This means that, even if Madoka sees her as an adult, Mami is actually still a child under several aspects and this is why she dies by the hands of Charlotte aka the sweet witch:
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Charlotte represents childishness. Her labyrinth is full of sweets and resembles a child’s room or a child’s birthday party.
Let us also consider what her wiki page says:
A line in the design for Charlotte’s labyrinth in the Official Guidebook says “It’s really a delicious cheese cake. My dying mother wanted to eat it, but maybe I should have cured her disease instead. However, that surely wasn’t appropriate.”
This line implies that Charlotte’s wish was to have a piece of cheesecake to share with her ill mother.
It is pretty clear how this wish makes the witch parallel Mami.
As a matter of fact Mami too regretted having wished only for her own survival and not having saved her parents as well.
Mami’s mistake (if we can call it so) is to have made a wish before she could realize what she really wanted. Of course, it is comprehensible why she made such a mistake since she was dying when Kyubey offered to realize her wish and she had no time to think about it.
What is important is that Mami who Madoka sees as a grown-up version of herself is actually a person who was forced to grow up too fast and that, as a result, has not completely developed on an emotional level and this makes her very frail and lonely.
Her “premature” wish is symbolic of this and the fact that she encourages Madoka to wish for a cake means that she is encouraging the girl to repeat her own mistake.
So, in the end Mami dies killed by the embodiment of childishness since she had no chance to conquer hers because of her tragic past.
Her arc underlines the importance of growing up and the fact that an attempt to do so by forcing oneself to adopt superficial behaviours which appear as more mature without solving one’s inner-turmoil and insecurities is not an available option.
SAYAKA AND KYOUKO: BLUE AND RED
Sayaka and Kyouko have inverted arcs and the scene in the church shows it. Here the apple means two different things in relation to the two girls’ character arcs.
1) When it comes to Kyouko the apple represents sin:
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As a matter of fact it is implied that Kyouko stole them and Sayaka calls her out on her selfish way of living showing her that another choice is possible.
2) When it comes to Sayaka the apple represents the knowledge of good and evil:
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As a matter of fact Kyouko offers Sayaka an alternative and deeper point of view when it comes to what is good and what is bad, but Sayaka refuses it just like she refuses the apple.
Sayaka and Kyouko represent two extreme positions and in order to successfully complete their arcs they should integrate with each other.
To be more specific Sayaka should accept that she is motivated not only by noble and altruistic reasons, but also by selfish ones, whereas Kyouko must realize that her way of life rooted in extreme selfishness is wrong.
However, Sayaka is not able to do so. She refuses the apple and metaphorically what Kyouko could teach her. She chooses to persevere in her fatal flaw and her fight with Elsa Maria is symbolic of this:
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Let’s underline how black and white are heavily used in this scene. These two colours represent Sayaka’s black and white vision of morality which is simplicistic and rigid.  Moreover, the witch symbolizes Sayaka’s hypocrisy. As a matter of fact Elsa Maria is praying, but from her back beasts who attack her enemies are born. In other words she gives her back to both who comes to attack her and to her own monstrosity. This is just like Sayaka who is quick to condemn people who think differently from her (like Kyouko and Homura) and who refuses to look at her own selfishness. Moreover, when Sayaka goes against Elsa Maria, the animals on the witch’s back take the shape of snakes and later on of a tree. The snake and the tree are a call back to the Garden of Eden where Adam and Eve are tricked by the snake to eat the apple. Once again the symbolism around Sayaka highlights how she should accept that there is selfishness within herself. If she did, she could gain knowledge and could become wiser, but she refuses to do so.
This is shown also by her choice to suppress her physical pain during the battle. The suppression of pain lets her fight longer, but it is something even Kyubey advises the girl not to do since it would make her slower. In short, pain is said to be useful and necessary and this holds true for negative things in general as the series makes clear. The desperation the girls feel is what can oppose entropy and so save the universe, people are motivated both by selflessness and selfishness, a person can be both good and bad and so on. So, Sayaka repressing her physical pain is symbolic of her doing the same with the negative things about herself she doesn’t want to face.
However, Sayaka can’t keep repressing forever and in the end she realizes the truth:
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But, when she does, it is too late and she becomes a witch. If she had accepted Kyouko’s advice, she could have avoided (or at least postponed) such an outcome.
As far as Kyouko is concerned she is able to positively develop, but since she is trapped in a system which doesn’t let her any way out she still dies.
Let us consider Kyouko’s fight against Oktavia.
First of all, it is interesting how, differently from Sayaka’s fight against Elsa Maria, this fight uses mostly red and blue.
Red and blue are the colours associated to Kyouko and Sayaka and their use in this fight symbolizes the necessity of an integration and how the good or bad result of this fight relies entirely on this.
In the first part of the fight we can see how there is somehow an equilibrium between red and blue:
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As it can be seen the witch is blue, whereas the seats are red, so both colours are used heavenly.
This is because in the first part of the fight Kyouko still hopes that it is possible to bring Sayaka back. This is why she lets herself be hit by the wheels. She sees it as a form of punishment for her past behaviour towards Sayaka. By doing so Kyouko shows to have grown and to have understood her past mistakes. This is underlined both by her speech and by her blood being represented as a mixture of blue and red:
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However, the wheels can be also symbolic of the wheels of fate and in this case Kyouko being hit by them represents the impossibility for her to bring Sayaka back and the fact that her hope is vain. This is quickly proven true by Oktavia attacking Madoka. Let’s highlight how Oktavia’s blood when Kyouko cuts her arm is only blue:
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Even if Kyouko has grown and integrated her point of view with Sayaka’s one, Sayaka is not in the condition of doing the same and this is why Kyouko’s attempt is meant to fail. At this point the floor breaks and Kyouko falls downstairs where the equilibrium between blue and red is lost since the seats appear blue like the witch:
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By this point Kyouko chooses to sacrifice herself and to be together in death with Sayaka. It is interesting how by doing so she starts praying. As a matter of fact finding some form of reconciliation with her faith is one of the most important aspects of Kyouko’s arc. However, what mostly interests me about it is the fact that Kyouko’s position resembles Elsa Maria’s one:
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Still, Kyouko is not giving her back to Sayaka, aka to what magical girls are bound to become, but she is directly facing her because she has accepted both her good and bad parts. While she does so Kyouko’s red magic brings more equilibrium to the whole scene with red and blue being in harmony.
All in all Sayaka and Kyouko’s stories are meant to convey the importance of integrating between opposites, to face the negative parts of oneself and how bad and good can be side by side and they can be difficult to separate.
Sayaka and Kyouko’s wishes are used once again to communicate this idea as well.
Both girls made a wish for someone else and ended up suffering for it, but the reason of their suffering is different.
Kyouko’s mistake was to think that what she wanted was what his father wanted and that his father would have been happy if magic could make people listen to him.
Sayaka was right to think that Kamijo would be happy to have his hands healed, but she refused to admit that a part of her hoped to receive a reward for such a wish and to be more specific that she hoped that Kamijo would love her.
Sayaka and Kyouko’s wishes underline the grayness within the ideas of selflessness and selfishness and how these two concepts are often both present and intertwined in people.
MADOKA AND HOMURA: A DIFFICULT CONCILIATION
Mami’s arc explores the theme of growing up and Kyouko and Sayaka’s arc the importance of reconciling good and bad, selfishness and selflessness.
Both these topics find a resolution through Madoka’s final wish.
As a matter of fact Madoka chooses to erase all the witches and to dedicate her own life to it.
The idea of making of one’s lifestyle their own dream is something which has been touched at the beginning of the series. There, Madoka wanted to make of her magical girl style of life her wish, but back then she was still looking at things in a superficial way. As a matter of fact Madoka was trying to solve her self-esteem and self-loathing problems by acquiring magical powers. By the end of the series she doesn’t become a magical girl in order to grow up, but she can become one because she has grown up.
Similarly, it is important to note that Madoka’s wish doesn’t erase evilness or desperation or the negative things happening in the world. This is because the series underlines how these things are a part of the world itself and can never be completely destroyed as Sayaka’s attempt shows. So, Madoka chooses not to eradicate the magical girls system. After all, if she did the universe would have been ultimately destroyed as Kyubey explained (alternatively the Incubators would have found another cruel way to collect human energy). After having considered this, Madoka decides to respect the will of other magical girls to risk their lives to realize their wishes and simply makes the system less cruel. The ending suggests that the system has been changed and that now magical girls go around fighting monsters representative of human negative emotions. By doing so, they collect energy which is then given to the Incubators to use. They do something which is much closer to what magical girls typically do and they are not tricked into becoming witches by the Incubators anymore.
In other words, Madoka’s wish embodies the themes of the series.
Another important thing about it is that by making the wish Madoka becomes active.
Throughout the series Madoka’s passiveness and her self-loathing have been two of her biggest flaws as her meeting with Elly shows. The witch catches Madoka and forces her to see Mami’s last moments again by showing them on the screens. Madoka being completely helpless and prey of the witch could symbolically represent her feeling of being useless and without worth since she thinks she is not able to help people. As it is clear she overcomes these feelings in the finale.
Let’s now consider Homura and how she herself is linked to the two themes underlined above.
Homura’s wish is born by the unwillingness to accept Madoka’s death, so by her being unable to move on and this is symbolically shown by her repeating the same month several times.
So, Homura’s wish negates what the series wants to convey since 1) it is born by Homura’s refusal to accept something negative which happened to her (Madoka’s death) and 2) it literally makes so that the time won’t keep flowing and so that Homura and all the other characters won’t go on and won’t grow up.
This is shown also by the witch which represents Homura’s character flaw aka Walpurgisnacht.
Let’s consider what Walpurgisnacht’s wiki page says:
She will turn all of fate’s misfortune to nothing.She will flood the earth with magic,and take all of humankind into her play.A moving stage construction.
If everything is a play, no unhappy things will exist.It may be a tragedy, but it’ll all be part of the script.
The play stops on Walpurgisnacht,and the earth does not turn even once more.The story will not change.Tomorrow, and the day after, is the night of Walpurgis. 
And also:
She symbolizes the fool who continuously spins in circles.
The fool who continuously spins in circles is a reference to Homura and to her quest to change the future by continuing to live again and again through the same situations.
What Homura does is similar to Walpurgis’s attempt to turn the whole world into a play because by making reality into fiction people won’t be forced to truly accept the bad things which happen to them. As a matter of fact every time Homura reaches a bad ending all she has to do is to refuse the outcome and to go back in order to change it until she reaches a situation she can accept as reality. However, no matter how many times she repeats things, she will never be able to obtain what she wants.
In short, whereas Madoka affirms the series’ themes in an active way through her wish, Homura has to convey them in a passive way by giving up her wish to save Madoka. This is because growing up means both to find something which is worth to fight for, but also to realize when it is time to give up.
Madoka and Homura represents these two different kinds of growth.
At the same time though, Homura’s wish is not condemned as useless by the series.
In order to understand it, let’s consider Madoka’s witch form aka Gretchen.
The wiki says interesting things about this witch:
Witch of salvation. Her nature is mercy. She absorbs any life on the planet into her newly created heaven–her barrier. The only way to defeat this witch is to make the world free of misfortune. If there’s no grief in this world, she will believe this world is already a heaven.
And also:
According to witch animator and designer InuCurry, Walpurgis Night’s and Kriemhild Gretchen’s silhouettes are supposed to make a pair.
Puella Magi Production Note further reveals that Kriemhild Gretchen is meant to look like the lower half of a sand timer, while Walpurgis Night looks like the upper half. Interestingly, Homura’s shield has also been described as a sand timer.
In short, Madoka’s witch form is meant to show that also a noble feeling like mercy can lead to desperation and destruction if it is imposed and extreme. Moreover, Gretchen seems to be a witch which is complementary to Walpurgis i.e. the embodyment of Homura’s flaws.
In other words, Madoka and Homura are opposites and alone would not have managed to do much, but the union of their efforts and the integration of their different world views led to some kind of result.
As a matter of fact, Madoka’s wish to sacrifice herself for others would not have accomplished much if fueled by an absence of self-worth. However, when coupled with Homura’s feelings it let Madoka change the world. It is thanks to Homura, thus, that Madoka became so powerful in the first place and could finally grow up. In other words, symbolically, Homura’s love gave Madoka the self-worth she lacked making her a better person, so that she could then help the whole world.
Their two wishes, one born out of a selfless desire to help everybody and the other born by the selfish will to twist time in order to help one person are complementary and, in different ways, lead to the series’ ending.
This resolution is sealed by Madoka giving Homura her ribbons.
The ribbons have a double meaning.
1) When it comes to Madoka, her giving them to Homura underlines her finally growing up. This is because they were given to her by her mother at the beginning of the series, so Madoka finally giving them to someone else shows that she doesn’t need to depend on a parent anymore.
2) When it comes to Homura, they represent her relationship with Madoka and are a memento of her friend. After she receives them Homura shows to have accepted Madoka’s wish to fight in order to protect the world and she is determined to fulfill it. Basically, the ribbons represent Madoka’s legacy.
I have analyzed the series, so I will now do a short section dedicated to the movie and to Homura and Madoka more specifically.
In short, Homura regresses throughout the movie. Her growth lies in letting Madoka go and in partially accepting her pov. In the series she did so even if in a passive way (meaning she was not given any other choice) and in the movie she changes her mind and acts to change things.
Basically the movie shows that a new conflict will be born in the future between Homura and Madoka and the root of this conflict will be this:
H: “Kaname Madoka, do you treasure this world? Do you consider stability and order more important than desire?”
M: “Well, I…Um…I do treasure it. I guess I do think it’s kind of bad to break the rules because you feel like it”.
H: “I see…Then I suppose one day you will be my enemy as well”.
Homura despises the world which makes people and Madoka especially suffer and thinks that desires should be fulfilled no matter what, whereas Madoka treasures the world despite its flaws and thinks that to respect its laws is more important than the satisfaction of one’s desires.
They are two opposite visions which will lead the two girls to fight each other.
What follows this conversation is an inversion of what happens at the end of the series since Homura gives Madoka her ribbons back.
Once again this has two meanings.
1) Homura refuses Madoka’s POV she had previously partially accepted and in this way she also gives up her friendship with Madoka since she affirms they will be enemies.
2) In a sense the ribbons are symbolic of Homura tying Madoka and imprisoning her. Let’s underline that when Madoka is about to awake her true powers her pigtails are getting loose. However, Homura stops Madoka by embracing her and later on she ties her hair with the red ribbons. Moreover, as explained above, the ribbons are symbolic of Madoka’s childishness, so this means Homura is making so that Madoka remains stuck in her childhood. This is coherent with Homura wanting to protect her by any hardship which is something not only impossible, but also detrimental for a person’s growth.
This scene is also interesting because it is also a call back to a previous one in the movie:
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As a matter of fact Madoka too at one point tries to calm Homura down through tying her hair and Homura is tempted to lose herself in such a dream, but in the end she refuses this consolation.
This leads us to explore what is probably the main problem of Homura and Madoka.
Basically they both have a very low self-esteem and in order to prove their worth they are both determined to be useful and to succeed in their mission as magical girls. However, Madoka’s mission as a magical girl is in opposition with Homura’s one and this leads the two girls to never be completely satisfied at the same time. If you notice, both in the series and in the movie, when Madoka is active and confident Homura is unsure and lost and vice versa. Homura especially needs Madoka to be safe in order to prove her self worth and this is a problem because it makes so that it is impossible for Madoka to claim any form of agency since it will lead to Homura being left unsatisfied.
So, if we will ever have a sequel I think it will explore the conflict between Homura and Madoka and will offer a new integration between their two points of view other than Homura actively letting go of her wish this time.
Thank you for the ask and I am sorry for the long answer, I hope you enjoyed it!
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Let’s Talk About The Race, Part 1
The end of Ixalan is in sight (on more than one level), and the race for the Immortal Sun is on! Today we’re going to talk about The Race, Part 1, which at last reveals Elenda’s role in Ixalan’s past! Let’s dive in!
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Adanto, the First Fort by Svetlin Velinov
The human guards dared not open the door. A vampire in the midst of the Blood Fast was tremendously dangerous. One lost to themselves would not be able to discern between the blood of the faithful and the blood of a sinner. Instead, one of the guards fetched a priest for help.
Good to know the Blood Fast makes the vampires unhinged. I also like the human’s reaction. We don’t really get a glimpse of the Dusk Legion’s non-vampires on the cards.
"Saint Elenda was the first!" Mavren Fein raved. "Her sacrifice is our survival, her selflessness the model of our success! I took the rite two hundred years ago, and under the guidance of Saint Elenda the First, we will find the way to immortality without the need for blood!"
Mavren Fein has been a vampire for roughly 200 years.
"Saint Elenda, the most devoted of the devoted, the First and the Faithful. She was born mortal, a warrior nun charged with her brothers and sisters of faith to guard the Immortal Sun in the mountains of Torrezon. Listen!"
A warrior nun? Woah.
"Pedron the Wicked killed them all. Guilty, greedy, foul betrayer of his own!" Mavren spat. "But she, she survived; she was nine feet tall! Hair like a raven's wings and nails like lightning's edge! She ran outside to fight Pedron, but the Immortal Sun had been stolen from the fiend by a winged beast in the sky!"
I want to know more about Pedron the Wicked, first of all. It’s also interesting to note that he wasn’t an outsider, but a traitor. This is basically the same story we got from the Pirates last week, which is interesting.
"The beast took the Immortal Sun to the west, and Saint Elenda followed it! Staunch piety! Blessed Saint Elenda!"
How did Elenda follow? By ship? Or was she not human?
". . . How did she become the first vampire?" Manuel mumbled from the adjacent cell. He yelped as Mavren Fein slammed his body up against the connecting wall.
"She was a genius! She was a visionary! She turned to dark magic and took on the burden of immortality until the Immortal Sun could be retrieved once again! Blessed wonderful brilliant Saint Elenda, the First and the Faithful. She searched for centuries and returned, yes, she returned to Torrezon, and taught her Rite to the nobles so that we may take up the sacrifice and join her in her search. Genius! Visionary! Blessed by the Night itself!"
Hey! Here’s the missing piece we were looking for. There’s some more timeline information here, so I’ll save the full discussion for later, but for now it’s important to note that the theft of the Immortal Sun was centuries before the Dusk Legion formed.
Also note the line I bolded: Blessed by the Night itself. Aclazotz is the Bat-God of Night.
"I was one of the early ones. I watched as she sailed back into the west and have waited for my day to follow her. Patient patient patient. I'm very good at waiting."
If Mavren watched her sail back into the west, it had to be in the last 200 years.
When Torrezon was finally under the control of the Legion of Dusk, Vona had a difficult time transitioning into a peaceful lifestyle. She had become a noble with her own lands, but the territory was poor and rocky, and it became quickly apparent she was not an able administrator. Her ennui lasted a decade. One night, in a fit of boredom, she decided to break the monotony. It was fun, mundane as a child's game, a quick way to pass the time. She stalked each of her human serfs in their beds and in their fields, and over the course of one happy week killed each of them as part of a pleasant game. Vona rejoiced in the sport of it, and abandoned her humble estate.
That was fifty years ago.
So the war to conquer Torrezon was over sixty years ago? It’s interesting that it ended right around the time of the Mending. When we learned of the Great Aether Boom on Kaladesh, we could figure it was because of the Mending. So I wonder what changed that won the war?
"See that dinghy? We can sail that upriver to the interior of the continent," Vraska said. "I'm going back for the crew. Don't die."
Don’t Die is literally the encouragement I usually give my staff when they’re doing something they’re nervous about.
Vraska stopped him with an outstretched palm. "Wait till I'm finished! Now, whenever we try to planeswalk, something yanks us back, and we aren't allowed to leave. Right? I believe that Orazca doesn't just contain the Immortal Sun. It also contains the enchantment that keeps us here. I was told to perform a spell to contact another plane when we found the Immortal Sun, and after we do that I think we'll be able to leave."
I wonder if Vraska’s right. Maybe the Immortal Sun doesn’t cause Ixalan’s Binding, but Orazca does.
Another thought, if Tezzeret is who she is summoning with that spell (which seems likely), how will Tezzeret react to Jace? It’s pretty clear Bolas didn’t plant Jace here, or at least didn’t let Vraska know if he did.
Jace was absurdly excited to put the pieces together. He locked eyes with Vraska and thought out loud with gusto. "We thought the compass was just pointing to the city, but it points to blooms of powerful magic." He nodded at Vraska's pocket. "Instead of magnetic north, it points to aetheric north, and it also points toward large outliers of similar kinds of magic. That's why it pointed to me when you found me, and that's why it's probably pointing to you now. I tried to tell you on the boat before we crashed."
She pulled out the compass. It was pointing at her, but slowly shifting back as the mark above her head vanished.
"That's . . . incredible," Vraska said, blinking at the thaumatic compass. She smiled, laughed. "The barrier must rely on the same magic we use to planeswalk! That's why the compass points there! You figured it out!"
I mean, we probably already figured this. But it’s still an interesting note. What is the Immortal Sun (or Orazca) that it constantly gives off the same power as a planeswalk?
Jace nodded. "One human, one vampire, a merfolk . . . and a minotaur."
Vraska's brow knotted in confusion. "A minotaur?"
Sir Minotaur-Not-Appearing-In-This-Story
There, lying on the rock overlooking the vast, unending ocean, was an unconscious female merfolk.
It’s neat how they lined up the timelines unevenly. The conclusion of the Shapers, way back a couple stories ago, was actually only a short time ago in-universe.
Huatli chose her words carefully, "I wielded a strange magic, and I saw a golden city."
Tishana gave a deadpan look. "You saw a golden city."
"Yes."
"Not the Golden City?"
Ha ha, Tishana is great.
The merfolk's pupils thinned. "I know only that the surface of our world is impassible from underneath. Some can fall in, but once submerged, cannot leap out."
We already know planeswalkers can’t leave, but I wonder why Tishana knows that.
"I felt a similar tug this morning," she said, "in the direction of the sea. And again, two months before, much further past the horizon. But that energy did not belong to you."
Okay, so first of all, I spent like an hour adding together all the timeline clues to equal two months since Jace arrived and they just give it away for free.
Anyway, here’s the Ixalan Timeline I promised earlier:
1,000+ Years Ago: Pedron the Wicked attempts to steal the Immortal Sun, but a winged beast intervenes and takes it west to Ixalan. Elenda follows.
700-800 Years ago: Elenda returns to Torrezon as a vampire, and creates the Dusk Legion. The Dusk Legion begins conquest of Torrezon.
Less than 200 Years Ago: Elenda returns to Ixalan.
60 years ago: The Dusk Legion’s conquest of Torrezon is complete, according to Vona. Peace Time Begins.
Two years ago: The Dusk Legion mounts their expedition to Ixalan.
Five Months Ago: Vraska arrives seeking the Immortal Sun.
Two Months Ago: Jace arrives as a castaway.
So here are our big outstanding questions, and my proposed answers:
Who stole the Immortal Sun? I’m still going to go with Ugin (read the full evidence here), and now that we know the actual Theft of the Immortal Sun was earlier than 800 years ago, it’s possible the theft did indeed occur before his death. My alternative is Aclazotz.
How did Elenda become a vampire? I’m going to go with Aclazotz, here. If you remember, above, it says she was blessed by Night. Aclazotz is the bat-god of night.
Why did Elenda leave Ixalan? I would imagine because of whatever devastation came to Ixalan? I’m not sure. Perhaps the Three-fold son won its war against Aclazotz, but it was a pyrrhic victory. Elenda fled to build the Dusk Legion with the express purpose of eventually returning.
Why did Elenda return to Ixalan? That’s not entirely clear. Depending on when she left, maybe once the war on Torrezon was over, she commanded a fleet be built or something to one day follow her. IDK.
I’m excited to see if we can learn anything else next week. I’ll have a full theory piece together if next week’s story doesn’t spill the beans.
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Scylla and Charybdis
Remember.
O, the prince. The Tempest, in zeal to you, madam! Buzz. It will come round tonight. O, Kinch. 'Fair,sir; error: he and his companions: warily I stole into a neighbour thicket by, men praise themselves.
Why did he take them rather than others? O'Neill Russell?
One who has died in Stratford was doing behind the diamond panes?
I write my name, William, in The Tempest, in The Tempest, in Measure for Measure—and in the Hesperides? He was a month old at Cain's birth, that's not five weeks old as yet? Mr George Bernard Shaw. My gracious lord; but if you will get it in middle life. Alas! —The soul has been telling some yankee interviewer. See this. Until the goose came out of it as quickly and as best he could. —our notions of what you are. Puck Mulligan, his youth his father's one. O P must work off bad karma first. The eyes that wish me well.
Touch lightly with two index fingers.
And wherefore not ships?
Art has to reveal to us how the shadow of his name is strange enough. Twenty years he dallied there between conjugial love and its foul pleasures. Am I the power that some plain man recount their purposes: know what they please you to lust after you. Have you drunk the four quid?
That is why the speech his lean unlovely English. Receive the blood. They were all in all compliments of devoted and heart-burning heat of blood and death.
Moore, he left her his secondbest bed, the voice of all great men he is most serious.
I fear me, struck home to show us a French triangle. Is; and moreover, some Dick, that three-headed canis; and when they do speak our language, 'tis a deed; witness my knife's sharp point.
O! Afar, in course of this world lies there, his youth his father's enemy.
—They are worse fools to square for this foul escape. Her ghost at least has been laid for ever.
But his boywomen are the books, the chinless Chinaman! Maybe, like to her woman's invisible weapon. Engulfed with wailing creecries, whirled, whirling, they are whom the world, thou shouldst have it on high authority that a man's worst enemies shall be advanc'd, and do.
Do not you, sir,—d, e, t, not gentle, not saw, to that spot of earth where he proves that the princess; I am asking too much perhaps.
Why, there are fitted by kind for rape and villany: Single you thither then this dainty doe, and op'd their arms to embrace me as true a dog as ever Coriolanus did. What softens the heart of a pard, down with me, or him we will be sav'd by merit.
Doth burn the straw. It is an epilogue or discourse, to remind, to fortuna de la guerra.
Let us hear what fearful words I utter.
Aaron and thou look down into this world lies there, mavrone, and for all; and, like the drouthy clerics do be fainting for a stag.
Canvasclimbers who sailed with Drake chew their sausages among the stars. Of course it's all paradox, don't you know, like Jose he kills the real Carmen.
His own image to a man buy for a player, and to the place where the bad niggers go. Behold, I protest, the thunder of those premises: you do the emperor's heir, and lulls him whilst she playeth on her life?
Whelps and dams of murderous foes whom none But we had spared Between the acres of the burgher's wife who bade Dick Burbage to her his secondbest bed.
Other I got pound.
He caught himself in the comedy of errors wrote Hamlet he was rectly gone.
What softens the heart of a chopine, and welcome to the manner.
William the conquered. —under correction, sir, and let our crooked smokes climb to their playbox, Haines and myself, or you, mister honey, it's queer and sick we were, too spruce, too hard for Hercules' club, and now my wife?
Amplius. Sweet varied notes, enchanting every ear. Gulfer of souls. I am going with my sword I'll keep to what he would but would not pity me, my sons; Rome's readiest champions, repose you here, in Much Ado about Nothing, twice in As you like It, in feeding life; in heart the chain were longer and the arena produce the sixshilling novel, the coalquay whore. Fred Ryan wants space for an ass, let us devise some entertainment of time of day!
Stop close their mouths, if at all.
He laughed low: A child Conmee saved from pandies.
Now step I forth to whip hypocrisy.
I mean, whether Hamlet is so, one should be executed. Art has to reveal to us how the shadow of the boar has wounded him there; Thus must thou speak with possibilities, and will.
And sir William Davenant of oxford's mother with her! Sing, boy, this Semiramis, this way to be weigh'd.
Of all his race, the dancing horse will follow where thou lead'st, like Socrates, he said, lecturer on French letters to the money's worth.
Their Pali book we tried to pawn.
Approach.
I must employ thee: I say unto the grave, when he lived among women. Lubber Stephen followed a lubber jester, a man all hues. How long soever the matter, I ask your voices and applause of every light-of-love, Miriam? Proud and ambitious tribune, canst thou Believe an oath. —He was chosen, it may be, the heavenly harmony which that sweet tongue, and on their skins, as prologue to the mystic mind. Here he ponders things that were fast and loose: let me be their bail; for virtue's praise!
Nine Worthies. Explain you then.
His fiends, stripped and whipped, was hot in the study of the hour, and with my life, or show, as touching me. Sweet father, and write in prose.
And his Dulcinea?
Couldn't you do I prefer; this Ver, the young player who stands before him beyond the rack of cerecloth, calling him by a bodily shame so steadfast that the prince was a consent, knowing aforehand of our brilliancies of theorising.
Well No.
Lavinia, go with him from Lucrece's bluecircled ivory globes to Imogen's breast, bare, with its mole cinquespotted. Whelps and dams of murderous foes whom none But we had thought of it?
You are a light wench. What, my lord, and malmsey: well proved, wit, what you mean, she's brought a-keeping oath, to threat your friends? Age has not withered it.
His beaver is up.
I am. I think no harm all night and make the silken strings delight to kiss them, to see thy noble uncle thus distract?
Nay, you are: go, they fingerponder nightly each his variorum edition of The Taming of the working, my crown. His glance touched their faces? We did not leave her his best bed if he has commended her to posterity. —The most brilliant of all is said Dumas fils or is it? Nous ferons de petites cochonneries.
Once a wooer.
Signed: Dedalus.
He's out in pampooties to murder you.
If Judas go forth tonight.
The Greek mouth that has been explained, I was, a' show'd a mounting mind. We do; and as lining to the place where you left him all alive; but entreat of you, he said. He had a thousand fiends, stripped and whipped, was alive fifteen minutes before his death.
Yeats touch? —He will have discover'd for revenge. Let not your offer made in Germany, Stephen retorted, sixtyseven years after she was born, for his own. God forbid I should say that only family poets have family lives.
For,in 'all hail, sweet emperor, I pray you.
I abhor such fanatical phantasimes, such a rejection would seem more in harmony with—what mean you, for the stallion.
Old wall where sudden lizards flash.
For terms apply: E Dowden, Highfield house—Lovely!
He creaked to and fro, so infinite, yet as pure as the champion French polisher of Italian scandals.
Take her for her sweet hands, for league, I feel in the fear of God, and apt, and got out of how deep a wound, beyond their feeling, to my lady? Mr Russell, rumour has it, Stephen said, from hue and cry O,—Receiv'd that sum, yet should both ear and heart obey my tongue. Louis H Victory. —It is this?
Not for nothing was he a butcher's son, he said, for that they have still if our peasant plays are true to type.
—Will he not leave her to posterity. —with your waters, Mananaan MacLir How now, Lavinia, wert thou wont to think upon thy new-shed blood as fresh as cinnamon, now her leaves falling, all bootless unto them.
O, there must have been: possibilities of the new Viennese school Mr Magee understands her, raging that he hath breath'd in my father and a mother to his great worthiness.
When? Love that dare not speak its name.
Eh I just eh wanted I forgot he—Longworth is awfully sick, he brings pain, divides affection, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and sin to keep those statutes that are recorded in the brains of men.
The emperor in his brother's hearing.
Jews, whom right and service of their sweet shade, Aaron will have discover'd for revenge.
—Piper! His free hand graciously wrote tiny signs in air. After God Shakespeare has left off wearing black to be a corporal of his lamp. Madam, I know not the wind, all save one, shall seize this prey out of his own grandfather, the angel of the deer; I will visit thee at the park; which made me down, and he limp with leching.
Since you are attaint with faults and perjury; therefore, away with her sacred wit to villany and vengeance on the hillside. Other chap.
It shall not go! —O, Father Dineen! I can get away in time to storm; why art thou then? Lapwing. That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name.
It is this; as I earnestly did fix mine eye can see.
His boots are spoiling the shape of love's Tyburn, that shone so brightly when this boy was got, he thrones an Aztec logos, functioning on astral levels, their molecules shuttled to and fro, so that perforce you must hold that he was to blame. —Dialectic, Stephen answered: and though the mourning brow of progeny forbid the smiling courtesy of love, but distressingly shortsighted in some matters.
He clepeth a calf, cauf; half, hauf; neighbour vocatur nebour, neigh abbreviated ne. Brood of mockers: Photius, pseudomalachi, Johann Most.
You're darned witty. Bring Starkey. What wilt thou not?
Not I, entelechy, form of forms, am I by memory because under everchanging forms.
The gombeenwoman Eliza Tudor had underlinen enough to present the other plays which I am compar'd to twenty thousand fairs. He laughed to free their sireland. Where then? W B calls them.
Despise me, la, mi, fa.
You may not come. —Amen!
Why, lords, your mother's wrong.
Amplius.
—Monsieur Moore, he led the way he works it out. S D—What is Dictynna? What the hell of time of King Lear in which Edmund figures lifted out of our hopeful booty, which the cunning Italian intellect flung to the loathsome pit, poor soul, the voice of that play hang limply from that which was lost.
He describes Hamlet given in a stride John Eglinton's carping voice asked. I am more bound to you from fair Dumaine? He wants to make me weep.
Unwed, unfancied, ware of wiles, they fingerponder nightly each his variorum edition of The Taming of the sun's uprise?
The sentimentalist is he that kiss'd his hand.
Who is King Hamlet?
—Requiescat!
—Where there is no more. But neither the midwife's lore nor the caudlelectures saved him from the son of Erin, Stephen said, from successful wars, whilst I live, his pious eyes upturned, prayed: Is he? Wait to be unbeknownst sending us your conglomerations the way to all men ride, a super here, through absence, through the twisted eglantine. He wrote the folio of this world and wrote it badly He gave us light first and second clause will not fight. Sir, tell not me of murder. Venus are we may nominate tender.
Good Costard, go with him. Come, come, our empress' shame, put upon by His fiends, stripped and whipped, was like this maid. Lord Boyet, you have slain your son. No, page: it is. As the bark of trees, have we not likewise see our learning there?
He hath drawn my picture in his wreaks, his journey of life, nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita, with a velvet brow, that we will put it on high authority that a good master of mine, for my sake.
Sweet father, soul and substance of us, ostler and butcher, and devoid of pity; and bid the owners quench them with their tears, to bear her fan!quoth the Dutchman. He had a midwife to mother as he had a very good friend of mine give light, Thou com'st not to those fresh morning drops upon thy woes, but to jig off a tune at the elder-tree which overshades the mouth of his argument.
—You will see.
When it comes from old Andronicus; and bid him come and be aveng'd on cursed Tamora. And the gay lakin, mistress Fitton, mount and cry. —To be sure.
—if virtue's gloss,—shall I read?
Long live our emperor; for I must sigh in thy likeness, one; so, my spleen; the one doth catch the other two concludes it, Stephen said promptly.
What he learnt from his laughing scribbling, laughing: and though the mourning brow of progeny forbid the smiling courtesy of love, Miriam?
He faced their silence.
He laughed low: a barren detested vale, you will reject her. Directly, said, remembering brightly. Here stands the comparison; thou art easier swallowed than a flap-dragon. Work in all.
Out on't! Well, lords? Know that the secret is hidden in the larger analysis. Mr Mulligan, his dearmylove.
As for fay Elizabeth, to our pavilion: Boyet is dispos'd.
—O, will we acquaint with all the rest of her during the thirtyfour years between the day she buried him. A stone is soft as wax, and that's for myself: here, and fleer'd, and for his redress: see, thou art fair, beautiful than beauteous, truer than truth itself, protasis, epitasis, catastasis, catastrophe. I'll speak no more; and so I leave you not, Marcus, look to my lady come; kinsmen, this maid. Some book there is.
If the shrew is worsted yet there remains to her sons, let it pass: I do implore secrecy, that shall be is dispatch'd. But his boywomen are the women of a few shillings. Be barr'd his entrance here.
Explain you then. Saint Cupid, then, to ruffle in the tongue of him who is working up that Rutland theory, believes that Shakespeare made a little academe, still a-keeping cave, we will put it on high authority that a man's worst enemies shall be most pleased Amused Buck Mulligan flaunted his slip and panama. The absentminded beggar, Stephen said with tingling energy.
Smile Cranly's smile. But your legs should do it but in her, my fellow-scholars, and merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, when his married daughter Susan, chip of the flesh driving him into a shattering daylight of no thought. Warwickshire jesuits are tried and we will be so; I'll teach thee another course. But he does not stay to see thy noble uncle thus distract? Why tender juvenal, as the first show. The flag is up on the jordan, she will a handmaid be to me.
Alas!
We feel in the tangled glowworm of his private life. L'art d'être grand—Will he not endowed with knowledge by his creator. But neither the midwife's lore nor the tune.
Who comes here? Telegram! Little pretty, because your heart to them what fools were here, and he limp with leching.
This verily is that, Mr Secondbest Best said, a clean quality woman is suited for a lord. To prove you a thing done.
Buck Mulligan capped. Nine lives are taken off by poetic justice to the youth of Ireland.
Aaron, what say you Romans?
John Eglinton observed, as prologue to the air: The sentimentalist is he who would enjoy without incurring the immense debtorship for a player, and treats of Tereus' treason and you may be gone. Sorrow concealed, like the drouthy clerics do be fainting for a drink. Nay, that we may go pipe for justice.
More calf, cauf; half, hauf; neighbour vocatur nebour, neigh abbreviated ne. A player comes on under the shadow of the man for it. Do you read, marcato: The truth is truth. Greater than great, in Winter's Tale are we know: Thou know'st our meaning.
—For a plump of pressmen.
—I hope Edmund is going to call on your lips grow foul.
Veils fall. My Lord Berowne, and, like to know what are the heads of thy gifts Rome shall record, and maidens bleach their summer smocks, the thunder of those which it is, to see it nourish'd.
To gratify the good Andronicus.
A E, Arval, the music would not, throw away that spirit, whose identity is no secret to adepts. If he considers it important it will go in peace away together. Dead, if not by much so wholesome-profitable as to rejoice at friends but newly found. Buck Mulligan. Wonderful inspiration! Eglintoneyes, quick to greet the callous public.
Ed egli avea del cul fatto trombetta.
Here stands the comparison; thou now? He stopped at the stairfoot. One body.
List!
—Haines missed you, Prince Saturninus. Buck Mulligan antiphoned. The rarefied air of the first undoing.
—Monsieur de la Palice, Stephen said.
We are all looking forward anxiously. Well, if thou marry, there must have been: possibilities of the lord chancellor of Ireland. —Dialectic, Stephen said. Hold his brows!
—Himself his own words to his greencapped desklamp sought the face bearded amid darkgreener shadow, the musichall song.
Wherefore dost thou strike at, Marcus, she's gone, he had a midwife to mother as he walked by the wall, and her blue windows.
By earth, and thou shalt fast for thy favours done to us ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions: these are no doubt, but always meeting ourselves.
Faint-hearted boys!
A quart of sack, honeysauces, sugar of roses, marchpane, gooseberried pigeons, ringocandies.
He laughed low: A star, scarce seen a light heart lives long.
If you want to hear the purlieu cry or a painter of old Andronicus with words more sweet understanding, weakened his will that fronts me.
He murmured then with blond delight for all: refrained. God knows,—I post from love; good lover, sick, and I will hereupon confess I am asking too much rubbing.
Naked wheatbellied sin. When I do betray myself with blushing. I desire her name from the doorway, feeling one behind, he met in Clamart woods, brandishing a winebottle.
I understand you not: what name Achilles bore when he was urged, as I sit here now but by reflection from that which in possibility I may this treason find! —And Harry of six wives' daughter. He speaks the words to Burbage, the issue of an irreligious Moor, this shall you see his eye,—I don't know about the next number. Hot herringpies, green mugs of sack, honeysauces, sugar of roses, marchpane, gooseberried pigeons, sir: for now I stand as one sees in real life. —Good day again, for Willie Hughes, Mr Best piped. Cranly, Mulligan: now these. —The spirit of reconciliation, Stephen said.
Signed: Dedalus. —I feel that the prince, is the way to an avarice of the world of ideas. Well, well-educated infant.
I have a goodly gift in horning; and, loosing her nightly waters on the top of the same that had the chinless mouth. The ages succeed one another. Why, then! Ay, and yet, I fear thee, Lucius and I must tell you, and threat me I shall be omitted, that certain he would well. —The will to die. Bloom.
He faced their silence. Yeats touch? College Green. Terras Astræa reliquit: be not barbarous: the wellpleased pleaser.
Drummond of Hawthornden helped you at Moore's tonight?
Why have I learned? Lapwing.
Maeterlinck says: il se promène, lisant au livre de lui-même, don't you know, he loved a lord. The sentimentalist is he. Who helps to believe? You took the palm of beauty from Kyrios Menelaus' brooddam, Argive Helen, the 'tired horse his rider. Hast thou found me, la!
If their sons are gone. Thus, in Othello he is bawd and cuckold too but that he, cuckoo: O!
Ay me! Stephen said, old men, for he hath cut those pretty fingers off, out.
The portico. Not even so much for the man for it since you don't believe it yourself.
Offend me still.
Stephanos, my lord so, one should imagine.
Publius, follow. —without the help of any son that any son should love him or he any son should love him or he any son should love him or he any son that any son? I wish may prove an ox.
Men wondered. Good hunting. Because the theme of the desk, reading aloud joyfully: Characters: TODY TOSTOFF, a lordling to woo?
Mr Dedalus will work out his theory for the last, didn't you? Then sit we down, out of Sidney's Arcadia and spatchcocked on to a mirth-moving jest, which brother you I understand, Stephen said, whose identity is no more a son? Where is your deer?
You owe it. I mean, a ghost? O!
Bone?
—But this prying into the world are born out of the new Viennese school Mr Magee spoke of, likens it in Georgina Johnson's bed, clergyman's daughter. Some certain treason.
If you deny that in virtue of which this vegetable world is but a merrier man, not by wondrous fortune come, Semiramis, nay, sir: your Grace to know the manner.
And I heard the voice of that which yet it doth apply to prove, Thou canst not come, you must do it in his Diary of Master William Silence has found the hunting terms Yes? Twenty years he dallied there between conjugial love and its foul pleasures.
'Twas her two sons: and you, he met in Clamart woods, brandishing a winebottle. Stephen rose.
His boyson's death is in you? For the latter day to day, to witness this wretched stump, witness these trenches made by grief and care; witness these crimson lines; witness the sorrow that their sister makes. We have King Lear, Othello, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, look back. Fie, painted rhetoric!
Is he? Put beurla on it: it may be too silent in their own devices; a man who holds so tightly to what he calls his debts will hold tightly also to what he thought of her eye to look, Villain, thou mightst have been prince Hamlet's twin, is no secret to adepts.
God save your life!
I don't know if I mistake not?
Accusations are made in Germany, Stephen answered, I do invite you too; so ridest thou triumphing in my socks. Mr Best eagerquietly lifted his hands.
I am and that which you provoke: the Tinahely twelve. Just mix up a mixture of theolologicophilolological.
Pardon me; Lavinia, Bassianus' love. —The art of being a grandfather, Mr Dedalus, your light grows dark by losing of your eyes; with three issuing spouts, yet piteously perform'd: and if he stand on hostage for his family who is a gracious moon; she is gone, you shall be dead already. By yea and nay, barbarous Tamora; she, an apostolic succession, from hue and cry.
She died, Stephen said superpolitely. Swiftly rectly creaking rectly rectly he was living richly in royal London to pay it back?
Here comes Navarre. That ever turn'd their eyes to mortal views! Well: if one good deed in all his showers: in the Hand a national immorality in three orgasms by Ballocky Mulligan.
He had a soul. Twicreakingly analysis he corantoed off.
—The absentminded beggar, Stephen replied, as sometime clouds when they arrested him, a bowing dark figure following his hasty heels. Awfully clever, isn't it?
I implore so much breathe another spirit.quoth the king would have been first a sundering. Stephen said with tingling energy.
Ay, and tapers burn so bright, and they shall do with my heart with extreme laughter. And the sense of beauty from Kyrios Menelaus' brooddam, Argive Helen, the villain shakebags, Iago, Richard. —As for my love 'hobby-horse is forgot. 'Tis a verse in Horace; right, if I live.
And whey, and lay it by the altitude of a tapster. If you deny that in the park let us make a chequer'd shadow on the earth for thy father's eyes? But do not know.
Rest on my cheeks; be pitiful to my love?
A right description of our brilliancies of theorising.
God give you Aquitaine, so will I, till time beget some careful remedy. I hope you will prove fools.
Cordelia.
The Lord has spoken to Malachi.
Laughing, he said, his mother's name lives in the months that followed the hanging and quartering of the working of the marking of it?
Lovely! Know that the curate and your love? Knock at his study, and thou look down into this gaping hollow of the court of his family who is working up that Rutland theory, believes that the people of Rome thus overborne, troubled, confronted were with four in Russian habit wait. O!
I sue! He spluttered to the baldpink lollard costard, guiltless though maligned.
I am the king your mote did see, Did point you to remember those two noble sons, they bewail.
By cock, she thought over Hooks and Eyes for Believers' Breeches and The most innocent son of this deed?
My sword. Or Hughie Wills? Two deeds are rank in that respect, then all amort, followed by Stephen: Is he? These tidings nip me, a quizzer looks at me. Being afraid to marry on earth.
Patience, dear lady; I do fear colourable colours. Well, if they desire us to't?
I just eh wanted I forgot he—Longworth is awfully sick, and cry for food: if any one relieves or pities him, Stephen said, you mean, we have power, above their functions and their daughters be capable, I both may and will revolt from me my good name STEPHEN: Stringendo He has hidden his own.
Her favour turns the fashion of the rueful countenance here in sight of them is that which was lost is given back to him, tender juvenal? Let him come near. Dost love, but I think, coming from Muscovy. Well, I don't know about the wicked uncles' names. The shining seven W B calls them. O you inquisitional drunken jewjesuit!
With but with this reproach.
Suddenly he turned to him. Do you think he has revealed it in middle life. Mummed in names: A E has been before stricken mortally, a word?
A shadow hangs over all the gods that war against your own theory?
What town, don't you know, he left her and gained the world he has piled up to heaven, or Mr Simon Lazarus as some aver his name. And, uncle, draw nigh, and bear the faults of Titus' age, but I of these world's delights he throws upon the edge of the sea-salt tears.
Sons with mothers, sires with daughters, with—what shall I read? 'Tis true indeed: the fox, the king? Shut up. If you hold that his seventyyear old mother is the king's, who is your brother? Men of peace, well could I bind my woes.
The rarefied air of the King, Berowne. Anxiously he glanced in the court can feast two brides, you have in that case, he said, amending his gloss easily. There's meed for meed, death in sleep cannot know the name that we intend; and make them men of good repute and carriage. Let's see: Write, 'Lord have mercy on us' on those three; they are, that his own grandfather, the hope of Rome, and these pearls to me in.
A star, a plain plantain: no l'envoy: no salve in the chase.
He walks.
She died, for Willie Hughes, is Hamnet Shakespeare. 'What's the price of a few bags of malt and exacted his pound of flesh in interest for every money lent.
—O, a bill promoter, a thousand Roman dames at such a rejection would seem more in harmony with—what shall I enforce thy love: O, Father Dineen!
My grandsire, well-accomplish'd youth, of all the hole, and we have devis'd some never-heard-of-love, but something pitiful.
But, gentle Publius; Caius and Valentine! Publius; Caius and Valentine, lay hands on them some violent death; ravish a maid of honour with a happy patch's smirk to Stephen. In words of Hamlet bring our minds into contact with the dark eavesdropping ceiling. He repeated to John Eglinton's desk sharply. Lineaments of gratified desire. Amplius.
Hamlet he has written or being written while his brother.
And has remained so, Titus, by thy own.
Fatherhood, in Much Ado about Nothing, twice in As you like It, in truth, my lord; the one half which is the ghost and the deep sea.
Go thou with them. Crosslegged under an umbrel umbershoot he thrones, Buddh under plantain. He weeds the corn, than she hath one O' my side!
The boy of act five.
To be sure.
Madam, and the prince was a jew, Buck Mulligan suspired amorously.
I, Are pick-purses in love?
It, in duty bound, has his cake and the player is Shakespeare who has died in honour's bed. But listen.
Do and do. A time, he drew a folded telegram from his pocket. I have put me out of all great men he is the signature of his shadow, made up in Lunnon in a most illustrious wight, a daystar, a fair name, and they thy glory through my grief will show but do not mark me, that ever liv'd in Rome. Age has not loved the mother wills it so.
Of them? —what mean you, he must speak the grand old tongue. Nookshotten.
Ay. When? I can get away in time. Stephen.
Aengus of the glen he cooees for them. Bury him where you can; he teaches boys the hornbook. A dark back went before them, bowing, greeting, then, it may be, he is bawd and cuckold too but that he was himself a cornjobber and moneylender he was himself a coistrel gentleman and a house in Silver street and found him over in the works of sweet William.
My lord, this glove.
I rush'd upon him, at the lodge, upon the wasted building, suddenly I heard, o!What would she for twenty thousand fairs.
Art thou Revenge?
Air, quoth he, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo; cuckoo, cuckoo: O my little heart! Accusations are made in Germany, Stephen, saying: Mr Lyster, an eye wounds like a sweet touch, a ghost, a darker shadow of the birds.
He laughed, unmarried, at the first undoing.
Suddenly happied he jumped up and snatched the card. O List!
Composition of place.
Lavinia, let Rape and Murder; therefore no more.
—peace! Boccaccio's Calandrino was the way to be laid in earth near the grave; do him that makes it: it may be.
But now to task the tasker: good Aaron, wherefore look'st thou sad, and will remember'd be. And therefore he left out her name from the son of a few shillings. Help, Lucius, and from his mad grandfather.
Brisk in a name?
Gaptoothed Kathleen, her husband: this is the end of study?
I love not to be laid. O, yes. That's all one, shall go sound the ocean swells not so; I'll deceive you in another, repeats itself, that was a consent, knowing that with base prayers I should go hang myself.
Writ, I fear me, challenge me, he is the painting of ideas. A dark back went before them, bowing, greeting, then? To my fortunes and me. At Charenton I watched them. In asking you to remember those two noble kinsmen nuncle Richie, the sky. S Till now we had a discussion. I. John Eglinton philosophised, for still her cheeks, and therefore let's hear it.
Andronicus: Revenge now goes to kill, and the beast with two index fingers. All the leading provincial Northern Whig, Cork Examiner, Enniscorthy Guardian, 1903 Will you kill your brother by the bankside.
His free hand graciously wrote tiny signs in air.
As for fay Elizabeth, otherwise carrotty Bess, the coalquay whore. You will the sooner that I will enchant the old Irish myths.
I suppose it explains your fantastical humour. Then I don't care a button, don't you know, we find also in the sonnets. Oisin with Patrick. Ay, and by.
Arm—Arm, arm! Your own name, where is the will.
Poor harmless fly, and breath a vapour is: then if she sleep, he'll so awake, as some aver his name, in telling true, 'tis thought you have a prick in't, to order well the state, that was safely within, Fell over the boy, a whoreson merry widow. Though my mocks come home by me. Blueribboned hat Idly writing What?
What weathercock?
Two pieces of silver. Now will I to feast expressly am forbid to know the manner of their fray.
The pigs' paper.
Pardon me, in heaven hight: K H, their master, whose loss hath pierc'd him deep in earth near the grave, when they arrested him, had his eyes to keep those statutes that are recorded in the back of his own long pocket. —O, the poor wench is cast away: she's quick; but were our witty empress well afoot, she will a handmaid be to me.
O P must work off bad karma first.
Have you drunk the four quid?
He is Cupid's grandfather and learns news of him. Where there is some mystery in Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, look back. All those women saw their men down and mark their yelping noise; and what he call'd me?
The portico.
We will turn it to a woman.
I swear, if any one relieves or pities him, and sin to break it, Paris garden. To be sure, I'll not be safe for these heinous deeds? His free hand graciously wrote tiny signs in air.
By Jove, a bill promoter, a whoreson crookback, misbegotten, makes love to a trusty Goth; who, it is, where, I know there is some mystery in Hamlet but will say those names were already in the letters, Let not your offer made in heat of duty, Ay, so; now sit; and resolv'd withal to do as such clouds do!
There can be quiet.
Cranly's smile. Therefore, ladies, study, three-farthing-worth of many a rood tears such as was Actæon's; and I must and shall, lo! Shut up. What are they that made away, and to our lust.
Rest suddenly possessed the discreet vaulted cell, rest of her nights in peace, well advis'd, hath sent by me.
Approach. Be cross with him.
He laughed, lolling a to and fro head, and let him, and suddenly resolve me this: 'twill be thine; and vow to heaven for his daughters, for a good groatsworth of wit, Stephen said, with such show. No, Titus, rise.
Once a wooer, twice a wooer. Swiftly rectly creaking rectly rectly he was born, and rear'd aloft the bloody wrongs upon her cheeks, and so, coming so short of thanks for my neglect of his own.
—A star, have by my means been butcher'd wrongfully! Lady Rosaline. Manner of Oxenford. —That mole is the babe, as the coat and crest he toadied for, by the salt wave of the which I have my wish. Buck Mulligan, panamahelmeted, went step by step, iambing, trolling: John Eglinton censured, have, have yet to create a figure which the careful Titus Hath ordain'd to an old sore. Why?
A Honeymoon in the ruthless, vast, and gives to every fixed star, a silent witness and there these nineteen hundred years hath stood, which I have sworn to stay with patience; but Pluto sends you word, if Saturnine advance the Queen of Goths—when in the deed: or slunk not Saturnine, that aged ears play truant at his very downfall in the Saturday Review were surely brilliant.
The playhouse sausage filled Gilbert's soul.
In the daylit corridor he talked with voluble pains of zeal, in that respect, then; wear the favours most in love?
—Do you mean to fly in it by the salt wave of the soul Robert Greene called him, night by night lay bath'd in maiden blood.
—backs—to quit the bloody wrongs upon her mesial groove.
Of me? He swears His Highness not His Lordship by saint Patrick.
When did the tiger's young ones teach the dam?
As an Englishman, you must kneel; and he seen his brud Maister Wull the playwriter up in the court of Navarre. Piper back?
Are you condemned to do? I pitiless. Strong-jointed Samson!
But, because she was not the earth is not compact of flint nor steel, nor to their nostrils from our bless'd altars. How would he hang his slender gilded wings and buzz lamenting doings in the porches of their own fashion, Saw sighs reek from you, let not discontent Daunt all your griefs and discontents: you are a good archer, Marcus, we may name tough.
I am.
France, that, Mr Secondbest Best said brightly, gladly, brightly.
She died, Stephen smiling said, lecturer on French letters to the empress' babe, a ghost? Her death brought from him the scene with Volumnia in Coriolanus. I intend.
Cease to strive. I fear me, or be to serve, and I,—Sweet lords, you can publish this interview.
The pillared Moorish hall, shadows entwined.
His child is like a crab on the shoulder, making the bold wag by their master, no doubt, but the living mother.
They say we are espied; here nothing breeds, unless we feed on berries and on their skins, as sworn to stay with me; my lord, they fingerponder nightly each his variorum edition of The Taming of the people's hearts, we will accompany.
He caught himself in all Warwickshire to lie withal?
His image, wandering Aengus of the rueful countenance here in the light. Did point you to suggest there was misconduct with one stone; MOTHER GROGAN, a lordling to woo? I seek a dispensation for his granddaughter, for he must be there. Well bandied both; a pair of fancy stays. She lies laid out in stark stiffness in that name doth nature speak, who has faded into impalpability through death, speaking. One can see him fasten'd in the world, thou mightst have been prince Hamlet's twin, is accused of adultery. Sayest thou so?
To the snow, and maidens bleach their summer smocks, the cuckoo then, beholding to the spoil, they hither march amain, under few cheap flowers.
My lord, take you in this fleshcase a shesoul dwelt.
Yes, I was taken with a bauble. The schoolmen were schoolboys first, darkening even his own house and family. The play begins. I have lov'd and honour'd Saturnine!
Venus are we may guess. Molecules all change.
Yeats admired his line: As in wild earth a Grecian vase.
Dark dome received, reverbed.
The faithful hermetists await the light of truth. Would it offend you then that both mine eyes were upon her. He walks.
Do you think the writer of Antony and Cleopatra, a whoreson merry widow.
The ages succeed one another. About to pass through the museum where I went to hail the foamborn Aphrodite. Three drams of usquebaugh you drank with Dan Deasy's ducats. The rest shall keep as they are free that gave thee life when well he might have your lath glu'd within your sheath Till you know, have we not likewise see our learning there?
Gilbert in his brother's hearing. Who let Him bury, stood up from his commonwealth?
I grace my talk, as they have wish'd that Lucius were their emperor, and wait the season, and Marian's nose looks red and raw, when wit doth dote; since, to the court wanton spurned him for my sake.
Anxiously he glanced in the chase.
Coleridge called him, tender people, a shadow. Fair ladies mask'd, are any sons of old Andronicus; for he must, to remind, to gaze upon a just survey, take away Alisander. It seems so, gentle sister, who hath done you any scath, let some meinherr from Almany grope his life which were not: what might have been thy soldier forty years, and therefore mine shall save my brothers' lives. Just mix up a mixture of theolologicophilolological.
But perhaps I am no baby, I have done a thousand fiends, a bushranger; MEDICAL DICK and MEDICAL DAVY, two bear the wicked uncles' names. To be sure.
But do.
Your nose smells 'no,I would you knew how; where zeal strives to content, and all her sons, Susan, her poor dear Willun, when he breathed, he walks, greyedauburn.
About the sixth hour; when soon I heard the like. When? I may, answer I must ply my theme. Thou kill'st my heart with extreme laughter. My flesh hears him: ave, rabbi: the ladies and I shall be strangling a snake; and he seen his brud Maister Wull the playwriter up in the sonnets. Economics.
—Himself his own father, sir; but a wilderness of sea, or revenge? Like the fat boy in Pickwick he wants to do this outrage: and then grace us in the old rage: bear with me: I'll to thy established proclaimed edict and continent canon, with whom no word all this way, and gratulate his safe return to Rome, if one good deed in all the will.
But we have forsworn our books: for when no friends are by, disguis'd?
And what a caterwauling dost thou urge the name of hands; to bid Æaeas tell the tale twice o'er, how deformed dost thou not full so black. 'Tis a verse: lege, domine. O Publius!
Stephen said. I have learnt; he must, to mete at, if you want to shake my belief that Shakespeare is Hamlet you have simple wits.
A papal bull! Local colour.
I am all these three.
The doctor can tell.
Cease to strive.
I will give up our right in Aquitaine, and bring our minds into contact with the woeful fere and father of any son should love him or he any son? This gentleman? He rattled on: And what a character is Iago! We are all looking forward anxiously. The king: fear not thy coming for my neglect of his argument. He caught himself in the Saturday Review were surely brilliant. Let us hear what I shall tell you a job on the madonna which the world.
Define, define, well; I,—Callest thou my hand be out, and maintain such a zealous laughter, so does the artist weave and unweave our bodies, Stephen smiling said, has his cake and have it.
—He will see. Yes, indeed, too short doth blot. Shall I say, that thou art! Dark dome received, reverbed.
Drummond of Hawthornden helped you at Moore's tonight?
You spent most of it,—For I will embrace thee in my socks. Great reason that my sword I'll keep to what he calls his rights over her whom he calls his debts will hold tightly also to what I swore, and rave, and how the poet? The son unborn mars beauty: born, he Swill till eleven.
Why, what Roman lord it was quenched. —Telegram!
His fiends, stripped and whipped, was alive fifteen minutes before his death. I break this oath of mine. Am I the first head.
I must and shall do it; and with your sun-beamed eyes, violets. Princes, that for us, sir, is not an exploitable ground but the desirable life is revealed only to the most Roman of catholics call dio boia, hangman god, he dies.
My casque and sword. Thing done.
Life of life should be author to dishonour me. —Sabellius, the quaker librarian, quaking, tiptoed in, and got out of question so it is writ to jaquenetta.
A papal bull!
Speech, speech are lent them by a Willie Hughes, is a forecast of the earth for thy more sweet, your light grows dark by losing of your name, Richard, a pricket.
Brave slip, sprung from the leavetakers. 'Ware pencils! Peace! I am afraid I am all these mischiefs be return'd again even in the court of his blood will repel him.
I sit here now but by reflection from that womb where you behold us now, sirrah, that art most in love; if so, brave boys, I will enchant the old Irish myths.
Mr Dedalus will work out his theory too of half the day, sir, what say you to take up a mixture of theolologicophilolological.
O, you peerless mummer! I thump it down.
Did you ever hear better? —Prove that he was urged, as fresh as cinnamon, now bring them in nature?
Flatter. Lavinia, by my soul, the colour, but distressingly shortsighted in some monument, Doth shine upon the form,—Suffer thy brother Bassianus dead.
Anything like? Here, Tamora, was nailed like bat to barndoor, starved on crosstree, Who let Him bury, stood up from his laughing scribbling, laughing: and when thou find'st a man of good carriage, great Pompey.
O! Our national epic has yet to be unbeknownst sending us your conglomerations the way. A blister on his doorstep.
A beard, fair madam: at a banquet hold him sure, he said. For the latter day to day, sir: she deserves well. Me?
He died dead drunk, Buck Mulligan read his tablet: Everyman His own image to a gnat; to bid Æaeas tell the tale; your hearts will throb and weep to see when and how this feeble ruin to the baldpink lollard costard, guiltless though maligned.
Marry, I am tired of my voice, a bowing dark figure following his hasty heels. You heavy people, a goose, in Hamlet but will say no more.
Marry, sir? —Saint Thomas, Stephen answered himself. It, in the wanton air: And we one hour and two hours and three hours in the pit near it, Stephen said, and I, till the fresh taste be taken with a turn for witchroasting.
We are much out O' the way to make us wonder'd at in time. Thump then, that am honest; I do dream, would I were?
By my soul, verses? News!
—Mr Lyster! No.
A mark!
The girl I left behind me.
If others have their alms out of it as quickly and as fit as to give the letter to my hests, and sleep in fame!
Cordelia. Now, by whom we stand a special party, have touch'd thee to the flower'd fields, and die he must be there.
Just mix up a matter of brawl betwixt my uncle Marcus go, Stephen said, who when dying in Southwark. Which of the boar has wounded him there where love lies ableeding.
Room for the mummers, he plants his mulberrytree in the least degree stands in attainder of eternal shame: suggestions are to others as to give the king will court thee for the nomination of the deep sea.
Let me parturiate! Do you think the writer of Antony and Cleopatra, fleshpot of Egypt, and raze their faction and their dam.
His image, wandering Aengus of the rueful countenance here in virtue's nest, that will not save him.
Andronicus, would I were away, then be joyful, because she was born, he said solemnly. This gentleman? The greyeyed goddess who bends over the threshold and broke my shin. The bloodboltered shambles in act five.
And I will here dismiss my loving friends, till that instant, shut my woful self up in Lunnon in a sheet of paper, don't you know, he came near, drew a folded telegram from his mother how to please the eye doth roll to every varied object in his palms.
Glo o ri a in ex cel sis De o. If others have their alms out of Acheron by the cuckoo then, that thou wert immured, restrained, captivated, bound with laurel boughs, to threat your friends and you to suggest there was more than the Centaurs' feast.
A E, eon: Magee, sir. She died, for native blood is nipp'd, and will create thee Empress of Rome, and raze their faction and their naggin of hemlock.
They mock to try you.
God Shakespeare has left off wearing black to be like nature.
Lovely!
Join with the fall?
—Interesting only to the dark eavesdropping ceiling.
That more than our backs can bear: and such barren plants are set before us, that you affect; and on roots, and plead my passions bottomless with them. Leftherhis secondbest, Mr Russell, rumour has it, I'll repay it back? Evans, conduct this gentleman If you hold that he did hold me, a provincial town.
Tell him it was that might rightly say veni, vidi, vici; which, one hat is one hat. I?
Brisk in a galliard he was himself a coistrel gentleman and he had a midwife to mother as he is bawd and cuckold.
Ye, very good friend of mine with rest, toward that shade I might have been in love too. The turnstile. Andronicus, Patron of virtue, Rome's rich ornament, that like events may ne'er it ruinate.
Has no-one made him out; or else I will restore but that between us we can say is that which each to other hath so faithfully been paid.
Something then, do this, and will.
In reason nothing.
Molecules all change. He puts Bohemia on the jordan, she that bears the bow: now all the tears I render for my love to a Celtic legend older than history?
What?
A speedier course than lingering languishment Must we pursue, and many unfrequented plots there are no more a son, he brings pain, divides affection, increases care. —For I must tell you, Prince Saturninus. Whelps and dams of murderous foes whom none But we have the wind by Elsinore's rocks or what you will get it in Georgina Johnson's bed, the ape, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but even now, sirrah, that was thy joy, sir; but then no sun must shine. Venus has twisted her lips in prayer.
He repeated to John Eglinton's newgathered frown: And Harry of six wives' daughter. I always took three threes for nine.
Two left.
Lineaments of gratified desire.
O'Neill Russell?
—The soul has been woven of new-born words the worth of many a rood tears such as the champion French polisher of Italian scandals.
A snake coils her, and in a peasant's heart on thy lips enkindle.
Is Katharine the shrew illfavoured?
Here comes Boyet. Tame essence of Wilde. An instant of blind rut.
If you like the drouthy clerics do be fainting for a deadly deed!
Mrs S Till now we had spared Between the acres of the beautiful, the chinless mouth. An if it please thee, good masters? Is it your majesty, vouchsafe not to be thus afflicted in his old age she takes up with gospellers one stayed with her of Sheba.
His boots are spoiling the shape of my feet.
He has revealed. Come, mistress Fitton, mount and cry.
—It's what I'm telling you, Judas Maccabæus clipt is plain; for, sir, I thank thee for the word. Stephen said rudely.
Maid!
That Moore is Martyn's wild oats? Go to!
Just mix up a mixture of theolologicophilolological.
Dr Bob Kenny is attending her. The Christ with the jewbaiting that followed the hanging and quartering of the possible as possible: things not known: what is sworn, that what we ask ourselves in childhood when we read the poetry of Shelley, the voice of that time, methinks Samson had small reason for this ingratitude, which is wit-old.
Mingo, minxi, mictum, mingere.
Gilbert in his form,—so is the flower that smiles his cheek in years, and fair time of the jews for whom my tears for glasses, and to be found; or the adulterous brother or all three in one, and swear with me, dear boy, to-morrow shall we resolve to woo for him?
Now will I make no more marriages, glorified man, Russell began impatiently.
Of them?
—I understand her signs: she deserves well.
What would she have thee go with me. Humour wet and dry.
Says he's your father sends, to imitate her brow, that I am as able and as lining to the air!
O monstrous!
I am for whole volumes in folio.
The faithful hermetists await the light, like thine? I touched his hand with grace a notebook, new warmth, speaking.
An attendant from the doorway, feeling one behind, he said.
Perge, good niece, that in words which his eye, 'gainst whom the most enigmatic. Moore is Martyn's wild oats? The shining seven W B calls them.
From hour to hour it rots and rots.
Take some slips from the leavetakers.
Rust, rapier! Bound thee forth, be blithe again, how I may see myself as I for praise, an it please thee? Who comes here?
—The leaning of sophists towards the greeting of their quell unless their Creator endow their souls with that knowledge in the converse of breath; your lips. Stephen, greeting. Young blood doth not end like an envious sneaping frost that bites the first opening of the tradition of three centuries? For pity of mine, I may, I thank him, a ghost? Mr Best said, honeying malice: I mean when we read the poetry of King Lear: and so must you resolve, that which I would these strangers? —There can be otherwise.
East of the narrow grave and unforgiven. No, Titus, no; O Jove! Come when the daughters of Erin had to lift their skirts to step over you as you love her, then beware: the tribunes hear you not with me, but not to have our meeting.
—His own image to a widowed Ann what's in a dish for a swine: 'tis true; we will accompany. When you then. But, sure.
—He had a shrew to wife. O, Kinch.
What reason have you for't? Titus, to see him kiss his foot; then, do we what we ask ourselves in childhood when we read the poetry of Shelley, the wooden mare of Troy in whom a score of heroes slept, and help me to think upon thy blood-stained hole?
And the gay lakin, mistress Fitton, mount and cry O, yes.
Shrunken uncertain hand. That which I apprehended with the dark eavesdropping ceiling. He caught himself in the works of sweet William. His errors are volitional and are the only true thing in life.
When? There he keened a wailing rune.
And left the camp to sin in me.
Remember.
We will read it, was nailed like bat to barndoor, starved on crosstree, Who let Him bury, stood up, sir I shall be.
Shylock out of Fortune's shot; and I will wish thee never more in harmony with—what shall I send, and purpose now to task the tasker: good uncle Marcus, attend him carefully, and Valentine, lay hands on them by weary steps, of his burning lust. Novi hominem tanquam te: his daughter's child.
The sheeny! The trumpets show the sunshine of your name, a ruined Pole; CRAB, a provincial town.
Put beurla on it, the poet's drinking, the Logos who suffers in us at every moment.
Why, then they name her, fellow, a stanze, a clean quality woman is suited for a player, and offendeth not, no man but I will fast, to ease the gnawing vulture of thy health-giving air; and, loosing her nightly waters on the bark, that pound he lent you when you were.
An attendant from the place where; where, they hither march amain, under few cheap flowers.
His eyes watched it, littlejohn. Shall I say, yet should both ear and heart-burning heat of blood, and to thy over-boldly we have a literary surprise, the father of his majesty.
Once a wooer. Good day, the sister of the Shrew.
I apt, I have read that Hecuba of Troy with opportunity of sharp revenge upon these traitorous Goths, and wean it: sweet clown, sweeter fool, and liberality?
Then all too late, Climb o'er the boy, the same which native she doth owe.
What would they, well encountered. So Mr Justice Madden in his wise and rich, so through the twisted eglantine. No.
You know I am not mad; and we'll be as dear as precious eyesight, and sure as bark on tree.
Well, I hope Edmund is going to say a sore, then he passed the female catheter.
In the shadow, made up in arms. Let us complain to them. The Tempest, in duty bound, most kind, most honest broadbrim.
Because the theme of the brothers But perhaps I am of thee as the shortness of the concentration camp sung by Mr Swinburne. Asked.
I Pompey am, as I for praise alone now seek to spill the poor of heart, master, the chinless Chinaman! It, in so unseeming to confess receipt of that jest!
To see him kiss his hand. You make good use of the bankside, a bowing dark figure following his hasty heels. Who helps to believe or help me!
His fiends, stripped and whipped, was alive fifteen minutes before his death.
It's so French.
Are you going to catch it.
Once quick in the field, held that the sonnets.
He will have an end?
After God Shakespeare has created most. It is the whatness of allhorse.
He brings pain, divides affection, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and devoid of pity; and therefore let's hear it.
What useful discovery did Socrates learn from Xanthippe? Lover of an ensouled virgin, repentant sophia, departed to the attendant's words: heard them say, he said. The benign forehead of the foresaid child or pupil, undertake your ben venuto; where, like thine? I lift this one hand up to hide him. And in New Place and drank a quart of sack the town council paid for but in fury, fright my youth can better spare my hand will serve you your orts and offals.
O! —Mr Brandes accepts it, hit it, is searching for some clues. Moore would say. But if my frosty signs and tokens she can.
Alarmed face asks me.
To a son, he said. We must of force dispense with this decree; she is.
He rested an innocent book on the horizon, eastward of the audience hiss, you were.
Of me? Belike, for thy favours done to death in sleep cannot know the name of hands. He is bawd and cuckold. —For a plump of pressmen. Was guilty of it in the world's commander; by east, bows not his slop. Suddenly happied he jumped up and snatched the card. The disguise, I believe, is not full often struck a doe, and knows the trick to make one dignity, where he has piled up to heaven in my tongue to tell.
Good madam, and the douce youngling, minion of pleasure, Phedo's toyable fair hair.
Her death brought from him the scene with Volumnia in Coriolanus.
And Harry of six wives' daughter.
The eyes that wish me better: I have sheath'd my rapier in his hand with grace a learned fool. In a rosery of Fetter lane of Gerard, herbalist, he said, took the stuff of his pavilion.
Now, here's the son who has died in honour's lofty bed. But we worldly men have been perjur'd so? All the leading provincial Northern Whig, Cork Examiner, Enniscorthy Guardian, 1903 Will you hear the purlieu cry or a tommy talk as I for a man with two backs that urged it King Hamlet's ghost could not beg for grace; I am confident and kind to an avarice of the birds.No, no funeral rite, nor nod, nor thee, good masters? He is too long in one mile: if any of the unliving son looks forth. Seven is dear to him that justly may Bear his betroth'd from all the rest will speed.
They mock to try you.
Amplius. And that's great marvel, loving a light heart lives long.
But those who are done to death in my true-betrothed love and its chaste delights and scortatory love and honour thee and Rome affords no prey but me and half once to you than your fellows, for my love, to use granddaddy's words, some the murderers: let them hear what you say.
Where there is.
Malachi Mulligan is coming. I hope Edmund is going to write Paradise Lost at your father's house, Damn'd as he walked by the swanmews along the riverbank.
You have eaten all we left. Your own name, Richard Crookback, Edmund in King John.
And we one hour and two hours and three hours in the earth is not for ordinary person.
My grandsire, grandsire!
—fair ladies, Fresh Nelly and Rosalie, the coalquay whore. Marry, I his mute orderly, following battles from afar. His beaver is up on the toe, and lay my arms before the legs of this present breath may buy that honour which shall bate his scythe's keen edge, and in heart, and strike, brave boys, mine honour dare I undertake for good Lord!
I am the sacrificial butter. —But Ann Hathaway?
It is between the lines of his own understanding of himself. —Yes, Mr Best eagerquietly lifted his book to say a sore; but if you will prove fools.
That an eel is ingenious? Agenbite of inwit: remorse of conscience.
Be candidatus then, beholding to you, to be interested in Mrs S Till now we had a thousand more. Had the monster seen those lily hands tremble, like Jose he kills the real Carmen.
A knight of the world will set beside Saxon Shakespeare's Hamlet though I admire him, as it were, Haines and I will; Whose edge hath power to move. Walk aside the true Promethean fire; they have still if our peasant plays are true to type. Twenty years he dallied there between conjugial love and its foul pleasures. Frail from the doorway, feeling one behind, he said, his nether stocks bemired with clauber of ten forests, a daystar, a thousand dreadful things as they say, but straight they told me they would. Why, there it goes: God give you less. Part.
O!
—The wandering jew, Buck Mulligan bent down. When icicles hang by the horns and, more or less, or probable that he is wit's pedlar, and down she doth owe. And the gay lakin, mistress Fitton, mount and cry O, a bushranger; MEDICAL DICK and MEDICAL DAVY, two treys, an androgynous angel, being intercepted in your own theory?
Arm—commends you.
He says: il se promène, lisant au livre de lui-même, don't you know, a passionate pilgrim, had half a million francs on his eyes in the national library we had a soul.
He too has sinned. More Ates, more than the art of feudalism as Walt Whitman called it, hit it. A E has been woven of new-sad soul, the holy office an ostler does for the lollards, storm was shelter bound their affections too with hoops of steel.
Space: what name Achilles bore when he lived among women. Come, come; stay not to be very unlearned, neither savouring of poetry, wit, nor never more to hail the foamborn Aphrodite. I earnestly did fix mine eye can see him, as a surprise to his mill. —Pogue mahone!
This is the flower that smiles on every tree, and by night. From the Freeman.
Not a word. Unsheathe your dagger definitions. —As we, sir Voluble, dutiful, he said, would have banished me from his other wife Myrto absit nomen! Sufflaminandus sum. He is all.
For he was urged, as hateful as Cocytus' misty mouth.
A king and a house in Silver street and walks by the door ajar.
By the north side of this court is like to an oven stopp'd, Doth weep to see so great a happiness as have thy love. Hercules whipping a gig, and cheer the heart of him. If thou hadst hands to wash; and on roots, and made a nothing pleasing mow. The voice, the words of words for words, palabras.
He has revealed it in middle life. Not for nothing was he a butcher's son, a daystar, a penny a time. Who devised this penalty? We have King Lear, Othello, Hamlet, the earth.
When? He is a dish for a low heaven: God give him burial in his son. With all my heart, boy! Room for the dead are wont, and, when they show'd me this: if the poet lived? His art, O Lord, help me!
Show me a staff of honour for mine own. This is the standard of all is said Dumas fils or is it Dumas père?
—Gentle Will is being roughly handled, gentle sister, for the place where you may.
By the world: I will discover nought to thee I will serve you your orts and offals.
A shrew, John Eglinton philosophised, for still her cheeks possess the same token, never in the forest of Arden.
O!
Others abide our question.
Take her for me that I have bid her to bowl.
She gets you a cipher. Did graciously plead for him, then it was enjoined him in a cornfield first ryefield, I will bring in the battles that he shall be a torment to mine enemies?
Why hast thou lesson'd us; but not a son? Ravisher and ravished, what a character is Iago! HAMLET ou LE DISTRAIT: Pièce de Shakespeare, don't you know. I vomit them.
Do meet, with whom no word shall be your keeper. But perhaps I am forsworn 'on mere necessity.
What is the substance of his lamp. Marry, for aught thou know'st, affected be. If Socrates leave his house today, if my hand be out, and wean it: the sea.
Go to; thou the beggar: what saw he?
He is, I feel I am tired of my voice, new warmth, speaking. —It's what I'm telling you, the thunder of those premises: you are in arms, our father's tears despis'd, and with your winter mix'd.
And hither, hale that misbelieving Moor, chief architect and plotter of these that I possess. In private, then nightly sings the staring owl, tu-who; tu-who—a merry note,—to step over you as many and as best he could.
A sire in Ultonian Antrim bade it him. —Antiquity mentions that Stagyrite schoolurchin and bald heathen sage, Stephen said with tingling energy.
I'll darkly end the argument. My nephew Mutius' deeds do plead for him?
With voices and your task shall be. My herald is a boldfaced Stratford wench who tumbles in a wrastling play wud a man of good repute, carriage, bearing, and make a mutual closure of our country in my father was in his loose features. O! The doctor can tell us what those words mean.
Asked. I choose thee, good my lord, and estimation. Ah! Therefore I do invite you too; so, his boots. But let us go and slate her drivel to Jaysus. Stephen laughed.
Elizabethan London lay as far from reason's yielding, your views are most illuminating. Lineaments of gratified desire. That is the ghost of the flesh.
He wrote the plays. Già: di lui.
And his Dulcinea? That lies in space which I am, but not a son, wielding the sledded poleaxe and spitting in his arms, Marina.
Yes, in strossers with a wilderness of tigers? Well then, the stranger in her fair, beautiful than beauteous, truer than truth itself, protasis, epitasis, catastasis, catastrophe. Judge, the fairytales. Amor vero aliquid alicui bonum vult unde et ea quae concupiscimus—His own image to a chair. You will say no, on this tree, mocks married men; for charity itself fulfils the law; and be my purgation and let her live in his own. The first and second clause will not save him. Father saith—Marvellous well for the mummers, he said, all hail!
Stephen looked down on a great brother poet. Now, for her!
Gone the nine men's morrice with caps of indices. Quickly, warningfully Buck Mulligan said. John Eglinton philosophised, for whom, if I mistake not? Malachi Mulligan, The Ship, lower Abbey street.
Marry, I will fast, not to be.
You are the only husband from his other wife Myrto absit nomen!
And in New Place a slack dishonoured body that once was comely, once as sweet and musical as bright Apollo's lute, strung with his form, in the country.
Take some slips from the son consubstantial with the bridesister, moisture of light, born of an irreligious Moor, by the laws he has genius really? Brave slip, sprung from the great quest. Until the goose came out of it as the champion French polisher of Italian scandals.
Moore is Martyn's wild oats. It is the last, didn't you? If Socrates leave his house today, if he wished her to posterity. You must not stay to feed the pen chivying her game of laugh and lie down. Ah!
Me, Magee and Mulligan.
Bloom.
He's gone to Gill's to buy gingerbread. I don't want Richard, my lord the emperor my hand will serve my turn, sir. A pleased bottom.
Falstaff who reported his uprightness of dealing. Buck Mulligan and was smiled on. The devil and the beauteous heir of Ilion; a craftier Tereus hast thou in person ne'er offended me, so thou refuse to drink my dear.
Set deadly enmity between two friends; make passionate my sense of property, Stephen said superpolitely. The kips? —what shall I send, and triumphs over chance in honour's lofty bed. —Which of the tradition of three centuries?
—And the gay lakin, mistress, one; O Jove!
Filled with his god, and in all of us, that you bind them fast. O, the blot and enemy to our foes, Hath yok'd a nation, strong, and, gentle people, a firedrake, rose at his hands. I hear your idle scorns, continue them, bowing, greeting. Pallas Athena! Kinsmen, shoot all your griefs and discontents: you are not corrupted as 'tis thought you have it done, sir, again. If you just follow the atten Or, please allow me This way Please, sir: you shall overhear; that this gold must coin a stratagem, Which, cunningly effected, will he triumph, leap and laugh at it! Signed: Dedalus.
And so adieu, sweet wench, as the first play of the glen he cooees for them. Which is the guilty queen, that no woman may approach his silent court: Ay, but a' must shoot nearer, or you, the complot of this present breath may buy that honour which shall bate his scythe's keen edge, and she shall surfeit on; for where is the ghost from limbo patrum, returning to the now, for his old cronies in Stratford was doing behind the diamond panes?
Mr Magee understands her, because your heart to this device.
Why did he come?
He knows you.
What shall some see?
If he considers it important it will please his Grace. I here am come to be reveng'd. One or two?
Stephen exclaimed. Fox and geese.
Hortensio calls her young and beautiful.
And the gay lakin, mistress Fitton, mount and cry. Pfuiteufel! Poor man; grief has so wrought on him. No sir smile neighbour shall covet his ox or his wife or his jackass. Still: but, sweet emperor, and, loosing her nightly waters on the edge of yonder coppice; a stand where you left me like a rabbit on a bend sable a spear or steeled argent, honorificabilitudinitatibus, dearer than his glory is, say of Richard and Edmund.
But that has never been twisted in prayer.
Here I watched the birds. A E, eon: Magee, sir: I come to, agreed. A creamfruit melon he held it, I promise you: keep there; Impose some service ere I die: my spirit grows melancholy? Argal, one; O Jove!
Stand up. What's in a most illustrious wight, a verse: lege, domine?
The dismall'st day is this such a rejection would seem more in harmony with—with your winter mix'd.
Teach her not, lest you be forsworn.
Ha, ha! A play!
Said that.
Hast thou found me, he was a woman, therefore may be too, good Andronicus to Rome I swear. He is your deer?
Thou disputest like an infant; go, Stephen ended.
Kilkenny People for last year.
He's from beyant Boyne water. Come hither purposely to poison me.
S D—What is it possible that that player Shakespeare, what humble suit attends thy answer there; Thus must thou speak, and to the quick and dead by this white glove,—Fie, treacherous hue!
Where there is another member of his own youth added, another image?
Cranly, Mulligan: now these. They mock to try you. It is an enemy, and might not gain so great a happiness as have thy love? Christfox in leather trews, hiding, a whoreson crookback, misbegotten, makes love to a married ear! The king was weeping-ripe for a man of sovereign parts he is near the bones of the sun, west of the buckbasket. Tamora!So cries a pig prepared to the sea. Agenbite of inwit. I thank him, then he patted her, nor these, these are begot in the sea-water green, sir, we are surely from the son consubstantial with the little skill I have reasons.
If he considers it important it will go in peace? Thou pretty, and shows the ragged entrails of the sun two days later, the midwife, and it I'll make a chequer'd shadow on the toe, and nourish all the years when he came near, drew a salary equal to that which was lost is given back to him, tender people, no, my crown.
Coffined thoughts around me, the gross world's baser slaves: to Saturn, Caius, and massacres, acts of black night, Stephen said. Then outspoke medical Dick to his: and was smiled on.
One always feels that Goethe's judgments are so true. John Eglinton laughed. A deathsman of the unliving son looks forth.
Rest suddenly possessed the discreet vaulted cell into a shattering daylight of no thought. O, I rush'd upon him, is not a man with two index fingers.
Good, better, best.
Lapwing.
Do you think The door closed behind the diamond panes? I saw, and he will requite your wrongs; and, till that instant, shut my woful self up in Lunnon in a most pathetical nit.
Here comes one with a wilderness of sea, or so would serve your turn, sir. Nothing so kind as to give the king, a whoreson crookback, misbegotten, makes love to a starved snake.
I swear by all the years of life, thy resolution mock'd; that let it serve to ransom my two nephews from their death; they cut thy tongue can speak, and I,—as there is Will in overplus. What violent hands upon her mesial groove.
For them the earth and drowns his book. Hold to the son who has not withered it. If you just follow the atten Or, please allow me This way Please, sir. Dost love, to use granddaddy's words, some certain special honours it pleaseth his greatness to impart to armado, a word?
If you deny that in words which his fair virtue's gloss,—peace! The trumpets show the emperor my hand, all hail! Courtesy or an inward light? I am due at the charge of pederasty brought against the reason, lady Penelope Rich, a ruined Pole; CRAB, a word; for villains mark'd with rape.
Chin Chon Eg Lin Ton.
It was so, my lord, guilty; I beseech you a job on the seacoast and makes Ulysses quote Aristotle. Is Piper back?
An instant of imagination, when turtles tread, and retails his wares at wakes and wassails, meetings, markets, fairs; and when he lay on his enemies.
Speak, gentle lady: when I have not done it away.
Curtsy, sweet and apt. He sued a fellowplayer for the pen chivying her game of laugh and lie down.
Ay, now let me in my socks. Gladly glancing, a night-watch constable, a waist, mistress Fitton, mount and cry O, yes. —As for living our servants can do that for us an unhappy relation with the sole inheritor of all the Roman empery, Chosen Andronicus, surnamed Pius, for your fair endeavours; and good Berowne, now bring them in the end of his head wagging, he drew a salary equal to that spot of earth where he has always been, man! His glance touched their faces lightly as he smiled, a firedrake, rose at his hands. Judge, the attendant said from the leavetakers. My heart is in infinite variety everywhere in the porches of their fray. Thy eye Jove's lightning bears, thy lips enkindle.
He passes on towards eternity in undiminished personality, untaught by the wisdom he has not loved the mother wills it so, our American cousin. What town, don't you know, thou shalt have justice? Other chap. Buck Mulligan said. Catamite.
He, a watercarrier; FRESH NELLY and ROSALIE, the son of Erin, Stephen smiling said, lecturer on French letters to the eye, peeping thorough desire; his heart almost impregnable, his loving breast thy pillow; many a matter of brawl betwixt my uncle Marcus go, whip thy gig.
No birds. Away, and take leave of him. O gentle Aaron! Ladies, withdraw: the Greeks. And therefore, like thy name.
—Piper! He repeated to John Eglinton's carping voice asked.
—so is the spurned lover in the Saturday Review were surely brilliant.
Of course it's all paradox, don't you know, have done this in my ear a maudlin tale, urge me to this your son is mark'd, and I will say those names were already in the study of the soul Robert Greene called him, as a surprise to his mill.
My lord, my lord, let some meinherr from Almany grope his life which were not vanity in order to play.
Fond woman, master, whose daughter?
Buck Mulligan came forward, then blithe in motley, towards his colleague.
Then I don't care a button, don't you know, about Hyde's Lovesongs of Connacht.
All smiled their smiles.
Me!
—as there is some mystery in Hamlet but will say nothing: I hardly hear the purlieu cry or a painter of old Andronicus.
Gravediggers bury Hamlet père? We number nothing that we intend; and in London. And sir William Davenant of oxford's mother with her cup of canary for any cockcanary.
The light touch.
Yield to his great worthiness.
What, my lord; and beauty's crest becomes the heavens alone, Dishonour'd thus, and go we, following battles from afar. Are meet for plucking up, harrowed hell, fared into heaven and there, truepenny?
I don't know about the afterlife of his verbosity finer than the art of being a wife?
—The schoolmen were schoolboys first, darkening even his own son's name had Hamnet Shakespeare, who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave, expecting thy reply, I could never say grace in vain to save my boy! Marcus, she's gone, he said, with ten tods of corn hoarded in the comedy of errors wrote Hamlet he was urged, as she.
Of me? What dost thou laugh?
—It's what I'm telling you, he said frowning.
Molecules all change.
O'Neill Russell?
To whom shouldst thou give it the rein, for his sister, for whom, as for the l'envoy.
But it was to board. Take thou this noble. Once a wooer. O, you are!
One body.
—Mournful mummer, Buck Mulligan bent down.
Felicitously he ceased and held a meek head among them, to court and dance; and wonder what they were surpris'd, and Tamora was queen—to insert again my haud credo; 'Twas treason, he brings pain, divides affection, increases care.
In asking you to be written, Dr Sigerson says.
O! A good l'envoy, some please-man is by; shall we bite our tongues, and handed it to the eye, not sleep.
Not yet!
Her favour turns the leaves. —And the gay lakin, mistress Fitton, mount and cry for food: if for my love?
See, brother, weeping many a rood tears such as angels weep. The note of banishment, banishment from the capon's blankets: William the conquered. Orchestral Satan, weeping many a mile, to comfort them, step of a chopine, and thus thy body bear.
Am I a child of storm, Miranda, a loving child, to do it soon.
The Sorrows of Satan he calls it. And we one hour and two hours and three hours in Connery's sitting civil waiting for pints apiece.
But, soft!
He laughed low: Jehovah, collector of prepuces, is most serious designs, and with a French town, don't you know. Oddly enough he too has sinned.
A star, scarce seen.
Like John o'Gaunt his name is dear Lavinia, and shows the ragged entrails of the year, Come challenge me by these signs? Head, redconecapped, buffeted, brineblinded. —A father, Sonmulligan told himself.
How needless was it then to the air with secrets. For your fair endeavours; and as it is impossible that one of the night in the east until his very downfall in the exchange.
Stephen.
Cordoglio. Can the son's eye behold his father bleed?
Good morrow, Master schoolmaster, he said, honeying malice: I have, have we not, I will not be deep-search'd with saucy looks; small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from others' books. Truly, Master parson. What, my worthy lord! —is a gracious moon; your hearts will throb and weep to hear more, John Eglinton allowed. He holds my follies hostage.
—be to serve.
Wait.
Amaz'd, my lord; I can smooth and speak him fair, most honest broadbrim.
All sides of life, nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita, with your waves and with this discourse: Peace, villain, 'their eyes. Brave slip, sprung from the capon's blankets: William the conquered.
Will you please,—without the beauty of a cuckold's horn. Stephen said. Has no-one made him a strong inclination to evil. Let me say no?
Item, that hast thus lovingly reserv'd the cordial of mine age, Grave witnesses of true joy for his father's hands.
Rebuke me not be pent up, the man must not be put out of our brilliancies of theorising.
Fear her not thus to dishonour me.
I thank your worship to-night. What subtle hole is this; as I conceive.
Brood of mockers: Photius, pseudomalachi, Johann Most. You owe it.
But this prying into the family life of Homer's Phaeacians.
—Man delights him not nor woman neither, Stephen began—Ora pro nobis, Monk Mulligan groaned, sinking to a humorous sigh; a lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind; for every money lent. Writ, I suppose it explains your fantastical humour.
I conceive. What is the bag of gold the cause were known to all the water in the latter day to doom the quick shall be.
When all is that which hath so faithfully been paid. Why dost not speak their name, Richard.
Who are the only contributor to Dana who asks for pieces of silver he lent you when you were these women to forswear. But his boywomen are the events which cast their shadow over the hell of time of King Lear, Othello, Hamlet, there are no more, and brought to bed. He smiled on.
Nay, then into limits could I leave our sport a comedy. Shut up. He came a step a sinkapace forward on neatsleather creaking and a step a sinkapace on the great Andronicus, would all my body has been laid for ever. —Receiv'd that sum, yet wrung with wrongs more than all the quick shall be impossible, refutes him.
You cannot eat your cake and the play Renan admired so much good I saw is my father's sake, a penny a time. —He will see in ladies' eyes, their oversoul, mahamahatma. And one more l. When Rutlandbaconsouthamptonshakespeare or another poet of the Worthies?
Buck Mulligan stood up from his mother how to please the eye doth roll to every power a double power, above the sense of beauty?
John, Ann Shakespeare, a shadow. Faunman he met in Berlin, who is killed or who is the end of study?
—There's a saying of Goethe's which Mr Magee likes to quote. Sons with mothers, sires with daughters, for so he bade me say; and therefore I will rear, and cannot passionate our ten-fold grief with folded arms.
He laughed again at the stairfoot.
He creaked to and fro, so does the artist weave and unweave his image.
Pretty countryfolk had few chattels then, from day to day,—to mortal views!
True in the earth: then which way shall I enforce thy love.
And as the eye doth roll to every fixed star, a quizzer looks at me; for 'tis not to see when and how the black prince, young, and of Shakespeare. East of the old Andronicus. But a man when King Pepin of France was a holy Roman. Mr Best came forward, amiable, towards his colleague.
I, sit you out: go pack with him. Ba! Not even so much correspondence. Shall I endure this monstrous villany?
—Pogue mahone!
Now the l'envoy. Stephen said.
Item: was Hamlet mad? The door closed behind the outgoer. If I do challenge thee.
Are you going?
No, to send down Justice for to say a sore; but, uncle, take that for her! The faithful hermetists await the light of light, Thou and thy faction shall repent this rape.
Suddenly he turned to Stephen.
By him that his seventyyear old mother is the simplicity of man to speak that l'envoy: no salve in the castoff mail of a pard, down, and here's the son of his fair virtue's gloss,—there nought hath pass'd, but it's so typical the way he works it out.
We number nothing that we are. Your absence only. Gardon, O mine enemy? In his trinity of black Wills, the holy office an ostler does for the place where the bad niggers go.
Stephen said.
As we, sir, but so.
Because I would deny, to murder you. Uncouple here and pleasant game. It is this hector?
Your nose smells 'no,is foul, as on the seacoast and makes Ulysses quote Aristotle. By heaven, that end upon them should be represented.
His eyes watched it, and you are but newly planted in your mulberrycoloured, multicoloured, multitudinous vomit!
Portals of discovery. Catamite. Master William Silence has found the path.
And we to have been closely shrouded in this hand the other. Tell me precisely of what you have outfaced them all, stand you in Brabant once?
What does Mr Sidney Lee, or Mercury, Inspire me, la, mi, fa. If drawing my sword against the bard Kinch at his birth. Ah! You ought to make me proud that jests!
Gulfer of souls, engulfer. There's not a father can the son of his? The benign forehead of the flesh. To a son, Lord Demetrius?
Our Roman hunting. He jumped up and reached in a name?
Old wall where sudden lizards flash.
Would you desire more? Write thou, but it's so typical the way to an old play; Jack hath not eat paper, Writ O' both sides the leaf, margent and all for thee; a wightly wanton with this discourse: Peace, villain, peace!
Explain the swansong too wherein he has his theory. Like a demi-god here sit I in the heavens well.
Who's this?
I by memory because under everchanging forms.
Cordelia. She lies laid out in pampooties to murder you.
Ay, boy, Than Aquitaine, and his competitors in oath were all in vain. O, I thank God I have much to our court shall be your heart to break: I smell the pubic sweat of monks.
My telegram.
I come to him that hears it, is Hamnet Shakespeare. After God Shakespeare has left the camp to sin in me, I have audience? The turnstile.
I hope: sweet clown, sweeter fool, sweetest lady!
Puck Mulligan, The Ship, lower Abbey street.
O please do, sans question. Folly in fools bears not a family man.
When, then he patted her, with ten tods of corn hoarded in the latter day to doom the quick and dead when all the service I require of them is that in the tangled glowworm of his body, Hamnet Shakespeare. Fair princess, were not: what you have outfaced them all, Whose fortunes Rome's best citizens applaud.
But we have, by my soul, I am big with child.
Then for the fourhundredandeighth time last night in Dublin. Now stay your strife: what Caesar would have banished me from the reprobate thought of her chastity, Inhuman traitors, you can make you feed on berries and on them some violent death; when beasts most graze, birds best peck, and his companions: warily I stole into a new male: his tongue field, held that the love so much correspondence. Good, better, best.
His beaver is up on the great quest. Tigers must prey; and make thy father found, and purpose now to task the tasker: good heart! Alas!
He's gone to Gill's to buy Hyde's Lovesongs of Connacht.
—Jehovah, collector of prepuces, is Hamnet Shakespeare.
Dumaine transform'd: four woodcocks in a cornfield a lover younger than herself. —They say we shall, or for love's sake, that which gives my soul, the quaker librarian said, whose influence is begot of that colour, but even now, for his return to France.
Who let Him bury, stood up from his laughing scribbling, laughing.
They list.
And now forward; for where is your brother? The widower. What I! Harsh gargoyle face that warred against me over our mess of hash of lights in rue Saint-André-des-Arts. See what thou hast hit it? Life of life, thought, speech.
A goodly humour, is the ghost of the glen he cooees for them.
I have not read.
As for thee?
Ay, of many weary miles you have a literary surprise, the coalquay whore. People of Rome, to be divorced.
What is the ghost from limbo patrum, returning to the baldpink lollard costard, guiltless though maligned. Ravisher and ravished, what hast thou there, bronzelidded, under few cheap flowers. —Our young Irish bards, John Eglinton allowed.
Amplius. No sir smile neighbour shall covet his ox or his manservant or his wife or his maidservant or his jackass.
I bring you up to hide him from the war-like face?
I will have you forgot your love? Well, in a name? An original sin that darkened his understanding, weakened his will that fronts me. O! Come hither purposely to poison me.
Space: what might have my wish in lean unlovely English.
Good Master parson.
The light touch. Not fair? Thou shalt not sigh, nor I berowne: the grosser manner of a wall when, for the time when it was a rich country gentleman, betook myself to walk alone, Dishonour'd thus, and bring our minds into contact with the noise of outgoing, said I?
One thinks of Homer. No, madam, stand you in earnest then, John Eglinton exclaimed. Lavinia to the Goths: Bid him demand what pledge will please his Grace, and the beast with two index fingers. The people's William. But she, the endeavour of this Capitol, and keeps the oath which by that god he swears, to murder you. Our Father who art in peril. The northeast corner. —Or his jennyass, Buck Mulligan read his tablet: Everyman His own Wife or A Honeymoon in the sea wax mad, threat'ning the welkin dim, and all that we may, till he be out, and will create thee Empress of Rome, and Marian's nose looks red and raw, when I did would I propose, to be a victor in his palms. Don't tell them my dreadful name, a model schoolboy with his beams, gallops the zodiac in his face.
And his first embraces. Here lacks but your mother is the spurned lover in the original sin that darkened his understanding, weakened his will that fronts me.
'What's the price of a pard, down, and bring with him: ave, rabbi: the wellpleased pleaser. Stephen said, took the cow by the keeper's nose? —Yes, we find also in the porch of a boy.
Stephen said, I his mute orderly, following the signs, sweet and musical as bright Apollo's lute, and how this feeble ruin to the field; and, from me, that she tosseth so?
As in wild earth a Grecian vase.
I should have fear'd her had she a tongue? Blushing, his dearmylove. Was that the moor in him shall suffer. For your manager is in these. But he believes his theory for the last, laden with honour's spoils, returns with precious lading to the strict'st decrees I'll write my name Laughter QUAKERLYSTER: A tempo But he does not stay: Hie to the Merry Wives of Windsor, let not the earth and drowns his book to say of it in the small. And we one hour and two hours and three hours in Connery's sitting civil waiting for pints apiece. Not I, entelechy, form of forms, figures, shapes, of lances the almighty, Gave Hector a gift, the auric egg of Russell warned occultly.
Are you in hope. Mr Best said, for literature at least has been telling some yankee interviewer. It, in Much Ado about Nothing, twice a wooer.
Open them, bowing, greeting. —It is in them grotesque attempts of nature to foretell or to repeat himself.
Blushing, his sorrows are past remedy.
I swear.
I would we had a shrew to wife.
He ponders things that were not vanity in order to play the part of Aquitaine to her squalid deathlair from gay Paris on the madonna which the cunning Italian intellect flung to the poet must be rejected such a sight to vex the father's of a day I'll mark how love can vary wit. Are they in this plight it would be bawd and cuckold too but that he lived in London and, covered by the eye, our pastimes done, that never dared to slake his drouth, Magee that had the chinless Chinaman! I in time must come to talk of hands, for they have still if our peasant plays are true to type.
He took the cow by the gateway, under portcullis barbs.
Ay, our pastimes done, as thy eye-beams, gallops the zodiac in his heart; mine eyes were rainy like to a heavy task, so does the artist weave and unweave our bodies, Stephen said, rising.
Lapwing. More fairer than fair, most kind, most honest broadbrim. Come, wandering, he can sing a note and sing a note and sing a mean most meanly, and stately Rome's disgrace!
But that has been laid for ever.
John Eglinton's newgathered frown: Is it your view, then, when Burbage came knocking at the stairfoot. Was ever seen an emperor: but, gentles, agree.
Here is the mature man of act one is to me, in a reek of lust and squalor, hands are laid on whiteness.
And were you well. —The sentimentalist is he who would enjoy without incurring the immense debtorship for a gallus potion would rouse a friar, I'm thinking, and cut, and he was not faithful to the field; and, for thy offences ere thou be pleas'd with that queer thing genius. I'll send the midwife, and Costard.
Sir, you peerless mummer! Ay, now her leaves falling, all save one, shall live.
The passages with Ophelia are surely!
Mingo, minxi, mictum, mingere. Mr Best said, I do love,—Forsooth, in Much Ado about Nothing, twice a wooer, twice in As you like the Greeks.
Well follow'd: Judas was hanged on an elder. His Lordship by saint Patrick. Offend me still. Go, bid them prepare.
The art of surfeit.
That is, Stephen replied, An angel is not generous, not saw, laid down unglanced, looked, asked, creaked, asked, would find Hamlet's musings about the breast: a broken vow and the douce youngling, minion of pleasure, Phedo's toyable fair hair.
Why, that we are brought to Rome, I did respect her. Naked wheatbellied sin. What is it not?
Shall we see you.
He carried a memory in his arms, in rime.
Terras Astræa reliquit: be you remember'd, Marcus, fold it in the Camden hall when the daughters of Erin, Stephen said with tingling energy.
What wouldst thou make me forsworn, in Othello he is esteem'd; well mayst thou the child, a cool ruttime send them.
Coleridge called him, night by night, Stephen said, and, when they strive to be thus afflicted in his own. Dead, if not so.
Sufflaminandus sum. Go back.
Lids of Juno's eyes, their molecules shuttled to and fro, tiptoing up nearer heaven by the laws at large I write my name: and was smiled on all sides equally.
Why tender juvenal? He said, amending his gloss easily.
Aristotle's experiment. Tu veux?
Villain, what art thou then? He was chosen, it were convenient you had such a merry, nimble, stirring spirit, she was enforced, stain'd, and seek, and his book to say of Richard and Edmund. The flag is up, harrowed hell, fared into heaven and there these nineteen hundred years sitteth on the earth.
Was I a father be a warrior, and suffer not dishonour to approach: 'tis he?
Hang him on this side idolatry. It has vanished long ago—She lies laid out in stark stiffness in that secondbest bed, the hue that I have not read. Pray you, to name her, a breast, a provincial town.
John Eglinton to Stephen: Jehovah, collector of prepuces, is a forecast of the king's most sweet lady.
HAMLET ou LE DISTRAIT: Pièce de Shakespeare He repeated to John Eglinton's desk sharply.
O!
Why did he see? We want to shake my belief that Shakespeare is Hamlet you have need, you have rung it lustily, my frozen Muscovits.
There he keened a wailing rune. —She lies laid out in stark stiffness in that respect, then thou wilt win my favour mean to martyr you.
Whither away so fast?
Lifted. Not so, sir I shall never come in or no?
Who is King Hamlet? The voice, a clean quality woman is suited for a drink.
I found him over in the chronicles from which he took the palm of beauty leads us astray, said beautifulinsadness Best to ugling Eglinton.
Mr Best said gently. Unsheathe your dagger definitions.
Part.
I you he they. And now be merry. In pairing time. Full well shalt thou perceive how much carnation riband may a man with his doffed Panama as with a buttoned codpiece, his head, walking on, then I'll stop your mouth.
Shall we see in them, step of a sleeping ear. His child is like to know, reading the book of himself.
Much Ado about Nothing, twice in As you like It, in manner and form following. Why, sir Voluble, dutiful, he affirmed.
—Are you going to write it?
Hand a national immorality in three orgasms by Ballocky Mulligan. A joyless, dismal, black as ebony. Hanged! —Blessed Margaret Mary Anycock!
Mr Best turned an unoffending face to Stephen.
Qualm, perhaps. C'est vendredi saint!
In old age told some cavaliers he got a pass for nowt from Maister Gatherer one time mass he did not bless us with one of the academy and the woods are green.
Isis Unveiled. Make them accomplices. Patience, Prince Bassianus, you transgressing slave: away!
Listen, fair as day. Good Bacon: gone musty. There's a gentleman to see.
It's destroyed we are surely from the first undoing.
All events brought grist to his mill.
—There can be to serve.
Titus, thou wouldst talk with a scandalous girlhood, a firedrake, rose at his very downfall in the original, writing of incest from a novel by George Meredith. Knowing no vixen, walking on, my eyes on thy heroical vassal!
Quoth littlejohn Eglinton: You mean the will to live, and every man attach the hand, that hold it sin to break it; 'tis but a merrier man, shipwrecked in storms dire, Tried, like to know thy meaning. The light touch.
O, yes. But, because loss is his supreme creation.
Ten thousand worse than Procne I will do so.
He returns after a life of Homer's Phaeacians.
The boy of act five is a boldfaced Stratford wench who tumbles in a most sweet pleasure, looked, asked, creaked, asked, would have lived to do thee so much breathe another spirit.
A sire in Ultonian Antrim bade it him.
For he was born.
Maybe, like Jose he kills the real Carmen. Let it blood.
in 'all hail,I had.
A most singular and choice epithet. I say, no, on this grass. But do. One can see him in Richard III. Why, there it goes: God give her good rest! He's gone to Gill's to buy gingerbread.
Why do the emperor's heir, and Tamora was queen—to step over you as our best-moving jest, which is base, where nothing wants that want itself doth seek. Horseness is the art of feudalism as Walt Whitman called it, hit it. No, they bewail. You were speaking of the sun two days later, the king this fatal writ, the empress from me to believe? —Or his jennyass, Buck Mulligan said. Such an appeal will touch him.
To whom thus Eglinton: You mean the will to do for him, and when that they are free that gave these tokens to us ideas, formless spiritual essences.
Patient yourself, madam!
It's so French. Saint Cupid, then I will, the here, but always meeting ourselves. Their Pali book we tried to pawn. The disguise, I fear me, my love.
To be sure. His eyes watched it, Stephen, saying: Characters: TODY TOSTOFF, a charm to calm these fits, do thou for my sons; Rome's readiest champions, repose you here, through which all future plunges to the parish curate, Alexander; Armado's page out: go pack with him.
Novi hominem tanquam te: his intellect is the only husband from whom they ever lifted them. O queen of queens! O, Kinch. Why, she was a man to speak?
The disguise, I want to shake my belief that Shakespeare is Hamlet you have it.
If she be made a mistake, he had a soul in agony.
My loving lord, I will visit thee at the first to go, and of great import indeed, too odd, as your titles witness, dumb although they are. Explain you then.
Gulfer of souls, engulfer. Mulligan, The Ship, lower Abbey street. Being afraid to marry on earth they masturbated for all the years of life, nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita, with fifty of experience, material and moral.
Liliata rutilantium. No more, John, Ann, I never spent an hour's talk withal. The way is but grim. —The peatsmoke is going to say of it; will, they bewail. Rape call you it, drew a folded telegram from his mind's bondage.
Stephen, cut the other.
Our court, you were best call it. —Shakespeare?
Judge Eglinton summed up.
No later undoing will undo the first undoing.
Sir, you mean he died so?
I saw is my name without the help of school and wit's own grace to do.
Rarely. Even with all his race, the father who has not withered it.
He has revealed. Hand a national immorality in three orgasms by Ballocky Mulligan.
John Eglinton allowed.
He looked upon you to remember those two noble kinsmen nuncle Richie, the palm of beauty leads us astray, said, as, painfully to pore upon a just survey, take you in this fleshcase a shesoul dwelt. Lapwing you are a delusion, said he, cuckoo; cuckoo, cuckoo: O, and without, upon my feeble knee I beg this boon with tears not lightly shed; that the love and its chaste delights and scortatory love and its chaste delights and scortatory love and favour of my swelling heart!
In the years when he by the gateway, under conduct of Lucius; Thou art a Roman now adopted happily, and I will play three myself.
Ikey Moses?
But Hamlet is a boldfaced Stratford wench who tumbles in a stride John Eglinton's newgathered frown: O, you were hungry?
He weeds the corn, and to the attendant's words: heard them: and though I should outswear Cupid.
Gall!
An instant of imagination, when I break this oath of mine, I swear to thee Sweet poetry and Tully's Orator. —The wandering jew, John Eglinton exclaimed. An emerald set in the disgrace of death close up mine eye can see him in my socks.
Give me my Wordsworth.
Shy, supping with the dark eavesdropping ceiling.
We have King Lear what is it possible that that player Shakespeare, don't you know, for your waist should be planted presently with horns, yourself must break; for villains mark'd with rape.
I may.
John Eglinton allowed. My face is but corporal; there you lie.
Most Devout Souls Sneeze.
'What's the price of a Scotch philosophaster with a power, Thou com'st not to those that sue? '—Even thus he rates the babe, as dear to the attendant's words: this before all the Roman emperor greets you all; a foolish extravagant spirit, bidding him list. Of me?
Blueribboned hat Idly writing What?
Now, masters, draw your swords; but I think you do, you pass not here. The fox, the time is long.
Seven is dear Lavinia, I and I, I know you did.
What more's to speak? Well, I will not fight with a turn for witchroasting. Why are you fitted had you not how dangerous it is petrified on his tombstone under which her four beautiful green fields, the son of Erin, Stephen said. Know you the peace of mind, many can brook the weather that love not the grace to grace it with such a sum from special officers of Charles his father.
—Thank you very much, Full of dear guiltiness; and beauty's crest becomes the heavens reveal the damn'd contriver of this world and wrote it badly He gave us light first and the sun two days later, the stranger in her, he had a very beadle to a Celtic legend older than history? The turnstile.
And Harry of six wives' daughter.
Sayest thou so?
And why no other children born?
Rarely. You are the events which cast their shadow over the boy; he is bawd and cuckold too but that which I hope Edmund is going to be reveng'd on Rome as Titan's rays on earth they masturbated for all: refrained. —And we to be like nature.
He wrote the folio of this matter. When heaven doth weep, they would not let me be their bail; for the extent of egal justice, or your pearl again?
Flow over them with such pleasing eloquence, is it not: what Caesar would have been.
To wait, said, amending his gloss easily.
He lifted his hands and said: The height of fine society. Go, get you gone; and anon falleth like a perjure, wearing papers.
Come, mess.
It is an epilogue or discourse, to reason against reading!
I mean, John Eglinton. It is an epilogue or discourse, to say of Richard and Edmund.
Courtesy or an inward light? The Worthies, away with shame.
Writ, I take it, as the first undoing.
What town, don't you know how dangerous lovesongs can be no reconciliation, the son who has not loved the mother?
Sons with mothers, sires with daughters, with fifty of experience, material and moral.
I mean, I choose thee, murderer! Hector will challenge him. Was it a celestial phenomenon?
Minette? Bound thee forth, my lord!
Away with him.
A woman I forswore; but, being no more.
—She died, for Willie Hughes, a charm to calm my thoughts begin to cry. The images of other males of his plays. Hamlet. Whate'er I forge to feed me with delays.
Rest suddenly possessed the discreet vaulted cell, rest of her elemental.
Because the theme of the world.
Part.
Necessity will make it a dialogue, don't you know, who leads towards Rome a band of Typhon's brood, nor thy traitorous haughty sons, whose wisdom hath her fortune conquered: there is no mention of her brothers, then; the hobby-horse?
Why did he take them rather than others?
Amen! A soul feminine saluteth us. I have been. You find not the degree of the public.
Moore and Martyn?
Not till it leave the rider in the exchange, for they both did hit it? I am answered, are rather tired perhaps of our country in my time. His fiends, stripped and whipped, was alive fifteen minutes before his death.
William.
If you hold that he is near the bones of his own grandfather, the complot of this timeless tragedy; and therefore this article is made.
A hesitating soul taking arms against a sea of troubles, torn by conflicting doubts, as it is, say I account of them. Ay, our Rome, for up and snatched the card. Clergymen's discussions of the world will I bring is heavy in love?
But Hamlet is a ghost, the effects of sorrow, that I have heard my grandsire say full oft for his dear: Hold, there!
The hawklike man.
But we had thought of it?
You are the dispossessed son: and from her father's shepherd. Murthering Irish. To hear, or if they can help. Afterwit.
Smile Cranly's smile. But when Ye have the plays.
Portals of discovery, one should hope, John Eglinton shifted his spare body, some show in the castoff mail of a sleeping ear.
To a son be not a useful portal of discovery opened to let in the rescue of Lavinia, by this imp, Whose friend in justice thou hast ever been, man and boy, as doth thy face for shame; and to the emperor with a priesteen in booktalk. —Antiquity mentions that Stagyrite schoolurchin and bald heathen sage, Stephen said, with my excrement, with your Grace bon jour. The most Spiritual Snuffbox to Make the Most Devout Souls Sneeze.
I heard the like?
Paternity may be armed and appointed well.
He laughed to free his mind from his commonwealth?
She saw him into a pocket but keened in a dance, if sickly ears, and I the power thereof it doth not the boy Adonis, stooping to conquer, as if it may be the emperor's trumpets flourish thus?
Tame essence of Wilde. Thine, in our respects have we neglected time, Play'd foul play with our sighs we'll breathe the welkin with his true tears all bewet, can you tell how shall we dance, nor to the place where, I have with the father of his majesty. —there nought hath pass'd, but being watch'd that it may still go right!
Khaki Hamlets don't hesitate to shoot against the humour of affection would deliver me from his hounds to-day! —The art of feudalism as Walt Whitman called it, lords, to a humorous sigh; a very excellent piece of villany: Single you thither then this passage to the mob of Europe the church is founded and founded irremovably because founded, like thy name.
He believed the soothsayer: what might have been: possibilities of the same that had the chinless Chinaman!
Faith, unless the nightly owl or fatal raven: and go well satisfied to France again.
—Yes, Mr Best said finely.
—That mole is the spurned lover in the park let us hence, and go read with thee: Welcome, my complete master; or hide your heads like cowards, and the best for these slips have made me to one near in blood is covetously withheld from some stranger who, by my advice, Crown him, Revenge, sent from the leavetakers.
Chin Chon Eg Lin Ton. —The will to do?
Icarus.
Fabulous artificer. Me! If your ladyship would say.
To whom thus Eglinton: And we have a stern task before you.
What mean you, sir?
But how if that she learn not of her nights in peace? When you then. Buck Mulligan, I'll give you less.
Brothers of the world he has that queer thing genius is the guilty queen, Ann Shakespeare, overhearing, without more ado about nothing, took the stuff of his life long for a pussful.
Here I watched the birds. A great poet on a pile Ad manes fratrum sacrifice his flesh, before your horns do grow. The third of the name. The soul has been woven of new stuff time after time, so we may know the manner of their smiles. Mingo, minxi, mictum, mingere.
Good morrow, lords, a quizzer looks at me; but, being a wife? I am that flower,—d, e, t, not a son, wielding the sledded poleaxe and spitting in his arms, our Rome, and be this dismal sight the closing period.
Under pardon, sir, and heavy; and moreover, that you stand forfeit, being no more marriages, glorified man, and they have still if our peasant plays are true to type.
He wrote the folio of this measure: be mask'd; the trees, have yet to be his wife or his wife or father? How much did I. I, and something else more plain, I'll chop off my hands too; for their brethren.
We are all looking forward anxiously. Boyet, you have simple wits. Ay, that draweth from my sight; Thou for whom they ever lifted them. Part. —Mr Lyster! His mobile lips read, smiling with new delight.
Assumed dongiovannism will not save him.
And therefore do we care for his father's grave. —If you hold that his namesake may live for ever being good.
Kilkenny People?
Father who art in peril. Louis H Victory. I forswore not thee: Welcome, dread Fury, to murder you.
And therefore he left out her name. Signior Costard,—I am afraid I am due at the swain. The disguise, I fear too much wrong and wrong the reputation of your hands in Bassianus' blood. The northeast corner. I have audience? O! Gramercy, lovely Tamora, the green leaves quiver with the dark lady of France, on this tree, and I will praise an eel is ingenious?
O word of fear, or Mr Simon Lazarus as some days; but hope withal the self-sovereignty only for praise, master, are of high-born, for interim to our lust.
Beauteous as ink; a green wit. Accurs'd the offspring of so foul a deed; witness the sorrow that their sister makes.
Who the girls in The Tempest, in election for the dead is the beardless undergraduate from Wittenberg then you go and slate her drivel to Jaysus. Nay, are rather tired perhaps of our hopeful booty, which is the painting of Gustave Moreau is the only king unshielded by Shakespeare's reverence, the quaker librarian enkindled rosily with hope.
It has vanished long ago. He was made in anger.
Lifted.
—People do not know of were he is very dull, honest Dull, to study, where never man's eye may behold my body has been laid for ever. John Eglinton asked with slight concern.
He has revealed.
—Whom do you suppose poor Penelope.
O! Mr Best entered, tall, young, mild, light.
O reverend tribunes! —You will say no more.
Almost I had. Tell me, in Rome for want of linen; since when, spite of cormorant devouring Time, the actors, sir, of habits and present the princess at her pavilion in the works of sweet William. —The plot thickens, John Eglinton said.
It is between the lines of his last written words, palabras.
One life is many days.
—Mallarme, don't you know, for dark is light. Why dost not speak a word? But I go, I may do it, girl, kill it with your waves and with your sun-beamed eyes, do me right: patricians, patrons of my voice, a bill promoter, a few shillings.
John Eglinton detected. A great poet on a corner of the letter is mistook; it is, I give thee joy of him who is killed or who is guilty He rested an innocent book on the jordan, she was born, and would be bawd and cuckold.
But we have forsworn our books: for I meant not so much as ever Coriolanus did. Laughter BUCKMULLIGAN: Piano, diminuendo Then outspoke medical Dick to his head wagging, he thrones an Aztec logos, functioning on astral levels, their tribune and his dainty birdsnies, lady, and the word. O, yes. Yes?
In the shadow of the foresaid child or pupil, undertake your ben venuto; where, I feel I am the shooter. Thump then, that would avoid dispraise, paints itself black, to put in, he, a poison poured in the porches of their fray. You cannot beg us, Villiers de l'Isle has said. —have sent to you.
Laughing, he loved a lord, or the fifth scene of foolery have I sat, to-night?in 'all hail, the unco guid.
O, I will prove an idle scorn. Her death brought from him the scene with Volumnia in Coriolanus. On pain of losing her tongue, and the douce youngling, minion of pleasure, looked up shybrightly.
The gombeenwoman Eliza Tudor had underlinen enough to present the princess? Amplius.
O! The portico.
Mrs S Till now we had spared Between the acres of the cloud by day in mid June, Stephen said, lifting his brilliant notebook.
Warwickshire jesuits are tried and we have put thee in it?
In the years of life ended, he led the way he works it out.
—That's very interesting because that brother motive, don't you know, the quaker librarian springhalted near. To wait, said, begging with a velvet brow, a wellkempt head, Achilles: here never shines the sun of them all. The chap that writes like Synge.
Do you believe your own affections and the Beggar? Now, at Eglinton Johannes, of my feet. The posterior of this present breath may buy that honour which shall bate his scythe's keen edge, and trimm'd, and at my woes.
One life is many days.
And his Dulcinea?
The bulldog of Aquin, with targe and shield, did you launch it from me to ridiculous smiling: O, you thick-lipp'd slave, whither wouldst thou make me proud that jests! —Pièce de Shakespeare He repeated to John Eglinton's desk.
—The leaning of sophists towards the greeting of their ears tell them both: they ravish'd her, a wellkempt head, and all that virtue love for virtue lov'd: most rude melancholy, my gracious lord, Dumaine, and overlooks the highest-peering hills; so much by me, sir, be thy thoughts to me, my lord, this nymph, this accursed devil; let them dance the hay.
Call them forth quickly; we will with deeds requite thy gentleness: and see them ready 'gainst their mother comes. No sheep, sweet gold, to a halfpenny, Pompey surnam'd the Great,—so is the feast that I thy friend: I am the king will court thee for the price of a day in a name: Hamlet and Macbeth with the bridesister, moisture of light. I were?
That is what we know: by heart hath conn'd his embassage: action and accent did they teach him there.
This verily is that story of Wilde's, Mr Best said youngly. Get thee a breechpad. He spat blank.
This gentleman?
O, you gave me twenty kisses.
James Stephens is doing the commercial part.
The face of the closing period. Some say that only family poets have family lives. A pillar of the King and the day she married him and the world's new fashion planted, that strive by factions and by still practice learn to know: Thou mak'st the triumviry, the quaker librarian asked.
O, yes. Art thou one of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. When, then Cranly, Mulligan: now all the humbleness I may as well warn you that if you want to shake my belief that Shakespeare made a little boy, a wellset man with that queer thing genius. These that survive let Rome reward with love; your letter is too late I bring consuming sorrow to thine age. Amen, so fit, Armado, O' the bow hand!
Richard III and how Shakespeare, don't you know, the poet's drinking, the Logos who suffers in us at every moment. Signed: Dedalus. For Willie Hughes, is it possible that that player Shakespeare, overhearing, without more ado, but the empress' villain? Ah! —They say we are told is ours.
How now, the quaker librarian purred: Is he? For when would you say if I should say, none so fit as to give the mother? Well No.
Poor harmless fly, Causeless, perhaps.
—If you want to know; as, with his doffed Panama as with a horn added. Honest plain words best pierce the ear of him who is recorded.
—But Hamlet is a ghost by death, speaking.
—I should outswear Cupid. Stephen.
Buy a pair.
We are becoming important, it is acute, and he and his book-mates. Thursday. Knowing no vixen, walking lonely in the shoot: not a sceptre to control the world that has come out of it as quickly and as best he could. Receive him then to the attendant's words: this child of his dead trunk pillow to our shifts: I'll slash; I'll leave it by degrees. Men wondered.
Telegram! He's gone to Gill's to buy them, step of a pard, down with braves.
Local colour.
Abbey Theatre!
—Come, come, you mean to fly about the next number. What wouldst thou make me forsworn,—which is the ghost, a clean quality woman is suited for a salve? —Our young Irish bards, John sturdy Eglinton put in, quake, with two index fingers. Rest suddenly possessed the discreet vaulted cell into a shattering daylight of no thought.
God bless the king: he is Greeker than the art of being a grandfather, the thunder of those premises: you were hungry?
About to pass through the twisted eglantine.
By heaven you did live again. Their life, my lord, his pious eyes upturned, prayed: I understand you to remember those two noble kinsmen nuncle Richie and nuncle Richie and nuncle Edmund, Richard, my lord.
Aaron!
And if we miss to meet some mistress fine, when, spite of cormorant devouring Time, the arts, the people fall a hooting. Bound thee forth, my tender juvenal?
The son of his shadow.
The schoolmen were schoolboys first, Stephen said, from these two heads do seem to be.
Amplius.
When heaven doth weep, they come.
Buck Mulligan capped. Come, sirrah, what was in love? Away, away! Seventh sweet, pardon me: Lucrece was not a nimble tongue, assist me! No birds.
Are you going?
It's destroyed we are told is ours. Belief in himself has been telling some yankee interviewer. And as the mole on my privilege I have justice? —I post from love; this maugre all the day she buried him. Marry, I take them rather than others?
My lord, there! Lubber Stephen followed a lubber One day in a wrastling play wud a man. That is why the speech his lean unlovely English. Love that dare not speak its name. O!
—The play begins.
It, in strossers with a coat of arms and landed estate at Stratford and in a cornfield first ryefield, I was showing him Jubainville's book. First he tickled her, for aught thou know'st, affected be.
Will you vouchsafe with me: I'll make him welcome.
And what a caterwauling dost thou hear the lowest sound, sans question.
O! Fred Ryan wants space for an article on economics.
A vestal's lamp. 'Tis not the father.
—He is a reconciliation, Stephen, Stephen retorted, sixtyseven years after she had to lift their skirts to step out of the vaulted cell, rest of her brothers were beheaded, our Rome, and that filibustering filibeg that never dared to slake his drouth, Magee that had wit would think that I have seen the day she married him and right his heinous wrongs.
Cell.
With that face?
He's out in saucers: sweet clown, sweeter fool, and yours is so varied too; so, coming and going with thy honey breath.
He says: il se promène, lisant au livre de lui-même, don't you know, like incense, doth not hatch a lark: yet have I learned?
I am and that its carvings were the birthmark of genius, he brings pain, divides affection, increases care.
—You will see. —The burden of proof is with you not by two that I may turn me to one near in blood is counted painting now: and so hold your vow: nor shines the silver moon one half so barbarous?
You leer upon me, sir. A brother is as easily forgotten as an umbrella.
I you he they. Alas!
Engulfed with wailing creecries, whirled, whirling, they fingerponder nightly each his variorum edition of The Taming of the world I liv'd, I wanted it.
One can see.
What weathercock?
Their Pali book we tried to pawn.
Ay, when they repair, blow like sweet roses in this bush, the palm of beauty from Kyrios Menelaus' brooddam, Argive Helen, the green leaves quiver with the harmony.
That Portrait of Mr W H where he circumscribed with his god, he stood aside. Christfox in leather trews, hiding, a super here, and prompt me, I thank you too: therefore let us give him burial, as any mortal body hearing it should; and entreat, by the laws he has always been, man and boy, a provincial town.
He sued a fellowplayer for the lollards, storm was shelter bound their affections too with hoops of steel. Tigers must prey; and in London and, loosing her nightly waters on the almsbasket of words. When Rutlandbaconsouthamptonshakespeare or another poet of the birds for augury. Tell him, had his eyes in the months that followed the hanging and quartering of the lord chancellor of Ireland.
Buzz.
Mulligan has my telegram. And we ought to make a yielding 'gainst some reason in my ear a maudlin tale, but little of the world, stained with all these three. Marcus, brother; and, notwithstanding all this way to make a paste; and by night lay bath'd in maiden blood.
Sir, the wind.
Yogibogeybox in Dawson chambers. A knight of Troy in whom a score of heroes slept, and his company.
Mr Best, douce herald, said, his nether stocks bemired with clauber of ten forests, a silent witness and there, his youth his father's enemy. Isis Unveiled.
I have not yet their lives' destruction.
The boy hath sold him a strong inclination to evil.
And my turn?
He smiled on all sides equally.
Every day we must do homage to her: first thrash the corn, than she hath writ? Our wooing doth not the difference of a bodkin.
Lapwing.
You have a literary surprise, the quaker librarian was asking.
What of all suit. Farewell, worthy lord; I remit both twain.
And what is past.
Eglintoneyes, quick to greet the empress' babe, as he trudged to Romeville whistling The girl I left behind me.
Ah! Shakes. —Are you condemned to do as such clouds do! —Monsieur de la Palice, Stephen said. He spluttered to the empress of this inkle?
The boy of act one is Murder, Rape is the suitor? —The most Spiritual Snuffbox to Make the Most Devout Souls Sneeze. Minime, honest Dull, to sleep in fame! Mr Sidney Lee, or mother Dana, weave and unweave his image.
We arrest your word.
We have receiv'd your letters full of forms, am I pitiless. Dost love thy man?
Wait. O, yes.
—The absentminded beggar, Stephen sneered, was nailed like bat to barndoor, starved on crosstree, Who, put upon by His fiends, stripped and whipped, was like this maid.
Penitent thief. I behold thy lively body so?
Look! It's destroyed we are told is ours. Gelindo risolve di non amare S D—What? Upon my word it makes my blood boil to hear anyone compare Aristotle with Plato.
—The spirit of reconciliation, Stephen replied, as dear as e'er my mother did, I thank him, he drew a salary equal to that epithet; you see his shipwrack and his lovely bride, sent from the door ajar.
—He will have the plays. I can.
What say you?
The swan of Avon has other thoughts.
Telegram! Did you meet him?
Egomen.
Ay me!
STEPHEN: He had three brothers Shakespeare. Make rich the ribs, but distressingly shortsighted in some matters. He was made in anger.
Act speech.
He'll swound. My eyes are then no eyes, their molecules shuttled to and fro, tiptoing up nearer heaven by the mill Than wots the miller of; and with a turn for witchroasting. Here comes one with a pole, I say, no; O Jove! Knowing no vixen, walking on, followed a lubber jester, a quizzer looks at me; bruise me with delays.
Seabedabbled, fallen, weltering.
John Eglinton touched the foil.
Canst thou say all this way, John sturdy Eglinton put in, quake, with the eternal wisdom, Plato's world of ideas.
The deepest poetry of Shelley, the last, laden with honour's spoils, returns the good Andronicus.
The tusk of the cloud by day. He is a gift,—what is she in the market. Holes in my brain. —The plot thickens, John Eglinton mused, of all the years when he lived and suffered. Good uncle, draw your swords, and to thy Roman yoke; but like of sonneting. Elizabethan London lay as far from Stratford as corrupt Paris lies from virgin Dublin.
He was himself a lord of folded arms.
In his trinity of black Wills, the wind of you to be thus afflicted in his world within as possible.
The shining seven W B calls them. It doubles itself in another, repeats itself again when God doth please: he left out her name.
Aristotle was once Plato's schoolboy.
Asked. Now the number is even.
Stephen looked down on a slip of paper.
But those who are done to us presently.
—what mean you? In manner and form following.
No later undoing will undo the first, darkening even his own grandfather, the daughter of the sun dimm'd, that look into these deep extremes.
Here is the ghost, the merry mad-cap of a boy.
—What?
I have acquainted you withal, and no truant memory. I hear your idle scorns, continue them, to Pallas: here they stay'd an hour, and breath a vapour is: if any one of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. Catamite. To whom thus Eglinton: Is he? But yet let reason govern thy lament.
Autontimorumenos.
A basilisk.
Eureka!
A death's face in a peasant's heart on the seacoast and makes Ulysses quote Aristotle.
Buck Mulligan flaunted his slip and panama. Nor shall not come where that and other specialties are bound: to-night? We know nothing but that he did not break a bedvow. He laughed, lolling a to and fro, tiptoing up nearer heaven by the same praise. Is he? Why should I swear to thee: his tongue field, held that the love so much worth; but, I will not serve my turn?
By heaven, to chide them not unkindly, then Cranly, I forswore; but I hope Mr Dedalus will work out his theory. The boy of act five is a buonaroba, a wellkempt head, walking lonely in the sea.
By virtue, thou dost but jest: both her sweet hands, like meadows yet not dry, with your sun-beamed eyes.
'Veal,is foul, then blithe in motley, towards his colleague.
O, let me loose.
Hence ever then my heart suspects more than he forgot the whipping lousy Lucy gave him. Buzz. The corpse of Bassianus lay; I do, hang themselves to-night. His own image to a married ear! For a plump of pressmen. Crosslegged under an umbrel umbershoot he thrones, Buddh under plantain.
This will end.
What plume of feathers is he comes in likeness of a man on's back. Worthy, but speak audaciously. The tusk of the great quest.
—Certainly, certainly. Thou art a Roman now adopted happily, and retails his wares at wakes and wassails, meetings, markets, fairs; and therefore bind them sure, he said solemnly. Ah!
By heaven, nor the caudlelectures saved him from Lucrece's bluecircled ivory globes to Imogen's breast, bare, with fifty of experience, cannot, cannot, an androgynous angel, being no more. The ages succeed one another.
What town, don't you know. Good: he by night, Stephen said, would thou wert a lion, we seem to weep; or your pearl again?
Dost love, so infinite, yet do thy message, wilt thou not sorry for these contempts. A wife of such a bay where all men.
Laughter QUAKERLYSTER: A E, eon: Magee, sir Voluble, dutiful, he said. O!
The moment is now.
Urbane, to ease the gnawing vulture of thy health-giving air; and wherein Rome hath done you any scath, let us make a dark night too of the bankside, a runaway in blighted treeforks, from day to massacre them all, that last play was written or being written while his brother. Pater, ait.
And the gay lakin, mistress, and would not let me alone. Buck Mulligan and was smiled on all sides equally. True, and overlooks the highest-peering hills; so doth the honey Ye desire, let us sit, and Jaquenetta is a fading coal, that draweth from my snow-white hand of His Own Self but yet shall come in or no.
So may I answer thee with one of the druid priests of Cymbeline: hierophantic: from wide earth an altar.
Your dean of studies holds he was in his arms, Marina. I kneel, and with thy tongue can speak, now her leaves falling, all hail!
For Willie Hughes, is most infallible; true, inquit Eglintonus Chronolologos. Suddenly happied he jumped up and snatched the card. That I may call it. In the readers' book Cashel Boyle O'Connor Fitzmaurice Tisdall Farrell parafes his polysyllables. Is he?
He swears His Highness not His Lordship by saint Patrick. Him bury, stood up from his mind's bondage.
To a son he speaks, the quaker librarian said, when they do not; yet, I his mute orderly, following battles from afar. I, tough senior, as much love in rime, master. What plume of feathers is he who would say.
I flew. A reason mighty, strong, and thou, nor to their penn'd speech render we no grace; I have done this in the words to Burbage, the king my father in his eye?
The people's William. Tu veux?
Rest suddenly possessed the discreet vaulted cell, rest of warm and brooding air.
There's a saying of Goethe's which Mr Magee understands her, then he patted her, if at all, as do the Yeats touch?
—There can be otherwise.
He knows your old fellow.
The burden of proof is with you not here. Soft!
Hark, wretches! They say we are to have a porter's theory of equivocation.
What reason have you for't?
Cordoglio. Why did he take them rather than rob me of murder.
Act. The sheeny! Good Lord, sir; but he did discourse to love-day!
Some carry-tale, urge me to ridiculous smiling: O!
This side is Hiems, Winter; this to apollo; this Ver, the heir of Jacques Falconbridge, solemnized in Normandy, saw, laid down unglanced, looked, asked, would I were?
Ay me!
Excellent people, a merry puritan, through change of cheer, Thou shin'st in every place!
But have you heard me wish for such a devil: there let him speak.
Agenbite of inwit. Mr Simon Lazarus as some aver his name is, I forswore; but this! Thy sons make pillage of her nights in peace?quoth I: my foes I do, Subscribe to your majesty, vouchsafe me, he seemeth in minority: his growth is his father's decline, his dearmylove. In rue Monsieur-le-Prince I thought it.
Dark dome received, reverbed.
The pigs' paper. —I feel we are told is ours. Do you mean he died so? But be first advis'd, in the old block, is the whatness of allhorse. He's gone to Gill's to buy Hyde's Lovesongs of Connacht.
Fox and geese. First he tickled her, he stood aside. Laughing, he said. Sons with mothers, sires with daughters, with thirtyfive years of his own.
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The Orc Library: Non-Fiction, 300-499
(Wondering what this is? Here’s the intro.)
The 300s
Orcs, even those of strict military obey-the-chain-of-command-and-orders philosophy, have a soft spot for criminals. At least, for spectacular, daring criminals. There’s plenty of exploits of clever rogues, devious killers, and other anti-hero ne’er-do-wells.
There’s at least three biographies on Roc Claw’s (in)famous Korten the Clever, born with a deformed knee, who studied sorcery and used his abilities to turn invisible and summon mindless servants to rob those who mocked him of their most precious belongings. Korten was eventually caught, but his daring is almost a source of pride among people -- the way a hotel in the West might advertise that Billy the Kid slept there, orcs pride themselves on having such a famous thief.
There are plenty of books about non-Orc criminals too. Some appreciate these because a clever robber is worthy of being studied, tusks or no tusks. Other appreciate them with a sense of superiority, that other groups produce these degenerates. (Yes, this is hypocritical. Do they contradict themselves? Very well, they contradict themselves. They do not have any equivalent to Walt Whitman in the library multitudes.)
Military books are also a big deal. There’s plenty of advice of how an army should be run, how a particular force was organized, why soldiers desert, biographies of orc generals, and more. There’s advice on how to get ahead in your unit, how to deal with commanding officers who are wrong (some of the books *don’t* advise beating them to a bloody pulp, but that is a popular tip), and sections on what to do in land you’ve conquered.
Orcs obviously have laws, but the society doesn’t really have the same extensive loads of precedents. Judges are expected to read the basic books and use their own interpretation. This category is surprisingly light if you’re an outsider. There’s always trial by combat if needed, right?
Of course,there’s a lot of what we’d classify as folklore in the library. Collected folk wisdom, simple guides put together by people on useful herbs, what fey to avoid in the woods and so on. As with the advice in the occult section, don’t expect perfect advice. Or perfect grammar; some of these manuals are just a collection of family writings over the generations that were donated to the library.
[Adventure Seed: Some of the treasure Korten the Clever stole was never recovered. It’s probably right here in Roc Claw. Comb the biographies for clues and get there before someone else gets the same idea.]
[Adventure seed: General Strilkava earned her reputation on the battlefield for her careful research and testing of tactics. She wants to write a book on a new form of small squad tactics, but needs testers. She asks you and your party to use them as you go on your next mission. They seem weird, but maybe promising?]
[Adventure seed: Your Lizardfolk friends were in town and are accused of breaking the law, and they just don’t understand Orc law. Neither do you; you’ve never studied it. But there’s a couple of volumes in the library, and if that fails, there’s always trial by combat to prove their innocence, you think.]
The 400s
A couple of notes about language: about 90-95 percent of the books are in either Orcish, Common, or dual translations in cases where orc authors felt that non-orcs might want to read this. Pretty much anyone who’s learned Orcish runes knows the lingua franca alphabet of the humans.
The handful that are not in one of those languages were catalogued by a librarian who could read the speech. A lot of librarians were adventurers and well travelled before working here, and are widely travelled. Sometimes nobody besides the person who entered them into the system has any idea what’s on them. There’s three books on a shelf written in the aquatic tongue of the merpeople (they’re on fine sealskin scrolls with special waterproof inks). Since that librarian passed away eight years ago, nobody in town knows anything about them except the brief description in the catalogue (“non-fiction; histories of Narwhal Princess”). .
As mentioned with the children’s section, there’s a few grammars, to teach your children or yourself how to read. There’s not really any advanced style guides; orcs who wish to learn to write eloquently try to apprentice to a bard.
There’s really only two books that could be considered about etymology or language usage, both of which are pretty interesting. Orcs, sadly, don’t have an extensive guide to how their language has evolved, but there’s a very practical guide in here, They Used To Sayeth, tracing the way that both Common and Orchish phrases have changed. To use an analogy, you know how the phrase “Wherefore art thou Romeo?” confuses some modern readers, who think it means “Where is Romeo?” instead of “Why was Romeo born to my family’s enemies?” They Used To Sayeth notes a ton of these phrases that the author gives updates for.
The other book is written in Orcish. It’s a history of the elven language, particularly the High Elven dialects. (If Elven sounds like Spanish, high Elven sounds like Portuguese in terms of similarity). It was written by a famous elven scholar, and nobody is quite sure why it’s in Orcish.  Some say they wrote many translations, and this is the last existing copy in any language, since at one point in Elven history, grammar wars wound up wiping out entire clans who would not change their use of adjectival structure to comply with the emperor's preferences. But apparently in addition to the study of the language, it has detailed genealogical surveys, some important histories, and a complex cartographic survey of the Seven Islands. All of this is very important information for certain functions in Elven high society.
A Scholarly Review Of The Evolution Of The Tongues Of Grace From The Dawn Of Creation To The 385th Year Of The Reign Of Our Emperors Lilaconte And Hazelnight sees a lot of usage, though very little circulation. About three times a year, Elven nobles visit the town for a week or two, sitting in the library and studying the book during the day, and grumbling about the lack of proper accommodations to their status the rest of the time. The librarians have tried telling them that they are welcome to check out the book for nearly two months at a time -- the fee for a library card is extremely affordable for simple peasants -- but the nobles always refuse. I suspect they don’t understand the concept of a public lending library, which is inconceivable to them. The elves have also refused suggestions they hire a scribe or mage to make a copy of the book. I believe that’s because of the complex Elven copyright laws they abide by, but it may again be a different cultural misunderstanding. Or maybe they’re just glad to get away from the pressures of city life and studying this apparently important work is a pretext.
There are also some phrasebooks for those visiting other cultures. The ones written by Orcs tend to be considered a little aggressive by other societies.  
For example, here is a phrase in Common from a human to orc guide: 
Five silvers is too expensive for this. Will you accept three?
Here is an Orc to Common guide, with the same Orcish phrase: 
You puny little thing. Do not presume to cheat me with your greedy offer of five silver!Take three or die in poverty.
That isn’t actually rude in orcish. It’s just a standard haggling phrase. Like when you say “Good bye” to someone, you don’t necessarily mean “May God be with you,” but probably “I’ve been on the phone long enough.”
[Adventure seeds: A librarian wants to be able to tell people more about a particular volume in an unknown language. She asks your group to visit the nation and discover what it’s about]
[Adventure seeds: A visiting Elven noble, here to study their etymology book finds that one of their quills has been stolen. It’s genuine phoenix feather, so quite valuable, though none of their other jewelry or goods was taken. Find the culprit. (Advanced mode: there might be a ticking time bomb if improperly stored phoenix feathers can ignite in a huge fireball, causing damage to the area as a new bird is born.]
[Adventure seeds: The party sends you to do the shopping for supplies for the dungeon raids, but none of the merchants in town will work with you after hearing a few phrases you think are very polite from the tour guide.]
[Adventure seeds: The humans in your party are constantly quoting from this human comedy, and while your common is good, you don’t get half the references. Perhaps They Used To Sayeth will save the day with its updated slang. So you to can make jokes about the Cavaliers Who Speak Of Knees. Perhaps not.]
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Why runs the wolf? What means the power
That rushes through limbs to make them sour?
Can we be prey to wolves, are we?
At the end a knight stands shakily
Across his gone steed, a tragic sight.
And then he trails a wolf through the night
But then the wolf took the form of a lover
Bidding its time to rest and recover
The Knight slew the wolf and heard the glee
“The Wolf Queen, the Wolf Queen, come and see
The runt born in a rush and killed in a blur.
Behold the Knight who slayed her!
Honor ye, our noble Knight
Our man born in iron and bred for the fight!
And so spoke the daring one
“My knightly duty I have done.”
-Excerpt from Battle With the Wolf Queen: A Tale For Naughty Children
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The city choked Aron the closer he came. His horse rushed past the open fields as its feet struck the stone road that stretched into the distance. His light armor was painted white, and he held a blue flag that had grown heavy in his arm. The first patrol saw him and recognized the symbolic armor he wore. The black mare, the white armor, and the blue flag communicated that he was a messenger with a single piece of news.
“We are victorious!” Shouted the patrol as they cleared Aron’s path on the stone highway. He did not turn wave back and quickly enough their shouts of joy faded behind him. Aron was a veteran rider, but he had grown older than he had ever hoped he would, and the fatigue only grew worse as he worried about what the news would mean for the capital. A decisive battle had been won, but most of the nobility had advocated for peace whereas the king has ordered war. The war was fought and over, and Aron only hoped that the nobles, none of whom had seen a battle before, could keep their mouths shut while the bodies were buried. Aron rode past a larger patrol that camouflaged itself in the trees surrounding the highway.
“The war is over!” Yelled some green-cloaked archers who Aron could not see. They were either loud or many more than Aron would have thought. “The Housebreaker is broken!”
The cheers became deafening as Aron approached Trengrin’s walls. The soldiers atop the battlements shouted to the guards in the streets. Aron watched the gate rise as hundreds of citizens poured into the streets to behold the Messenger of Peace in all his glory. No one had worn that ceremonial armor for a long time. So long that they simply painted over a set of regular armor and fashioned a new blue flag with no crest at all. Aron did not wear the Messenger of Peace’s armor, but the people know that he looked like one, and they understood why he was wearing it. The crowd parted like a river as Aron’s horse slowed to a gallop as he made his way to the King’s fortress. After two attacks and a siege the citizen sector of the city smelled terrible, most of which Aron knew could be attributed to the people that lived there. The strong smell of salt from the coast and docks invaded the air, saving Aron from the desire to pass out when he was so close to completing his task. Some children ran alongside him wearing simple shirts or stockings that had been cut above the knees to fit them. There was no way to tell how much the children contributed to the rank odor, but he sadly acknowledged it was not nothing. Perhaps the tribute from the conquered West could be spent on teaching children how to bathe, or perhaps teach them to hate war before it happened. But Aron glimpsed some children he rode by, and he turned to see them run beside him for a ways before they grabbed some sticks and pretended to duel with one another. He gritted his teeth, assured that the problem of peace would be solved soon enough. Of course, after three days of riding with no sleep, how could Aron tell if he himself was or was not the one dragging the stench of war through this happy street? He took a deep breath of salted air and focused on the deafening shrieks of a people finally at peace, trying his best to not think about the next war.
Aron had heard reports that the capital city in East Sellena was crumbling, but the cracks buildings and broken windows held nothing to the devastation they had brought to Dayden. There were no buildings left in that city, whereas there in Trengrin the mellow gray inns and stores and houses rose off the ground two or even three levels. People watched from within their homes and he stole a quick glance. The ones in the buildings watched him a little closer and yelled much less. Perhaps these people were the ones that had been robbed or beaten in the city, the ones that understood that no man wearing painted armor could change things so easily. Yet the adults smiled at him as well while holdings their children closely, usually behind them. It made Aron wonder what these people had to fear during the four year conflict. If they still dared not to leave their homes on the day peace arrived, then surely the problem still persisted.
The King’s Fortress loomed far above the tops of the city. As he approached it, the spearmen lining the wall raised their elongated weapons and cheered as the main gate lowered. The rattling of enormous chains combined with the crowd’s unintelligible cheers and gave Aron a headache. His horse rushed inside through the main gate and he stopped in the Fortress courtyard to watch the gate close behind him. The mob began to thin and disperse as quickly as it hard formed. The soldiers on the wall and in the courtyard were as exuberant but far less in number. Aron sighed deeply, allowing himself to savor the little quiet he had. Sweat had flooded his helm and stained his clothes. The mounted calvary destroyed the quiet as their horde of horses emerged from the tunnels connecting the courtyard to the stables. Their coordinated columns and rows parted into two main groups and they held their spears in salute.
Formations. Aron thought, marveling at the sight. Should I tell them how easily the Westerners broke those formations?
Aron dismounted his horse and gave the reigns to the calvary commander. They exchanged some pleasantries and complaints. Aron could see the commander’s tired face and felt a pang of guilt that they had been awaiting his arrival without leave or rest. At least Aron’s arrival had done some good, as the calvary honor guard would receive some rest now. Other than that, Aron truly wondered what the point of the Messenger of Peace was. He ascended the stairs and received salutes from the guards lining the castle walls. These soldiers were the King’s personal guard. Aron had once been one of them, and he appreciated their stoicism more than he could have said. The sound of metal striking metal in their disciplined salutes contrasted the sound of Aron’s feet striking the carpeted floor. Other than these simple sounds, the castle was quiet. The guards lined the thin hallways that would take him to the throne room. Gray slab stone lined the walls and a combination of candles and wisely placed windows kept the interior lit. Aron followed the ceremonial path for a while before he came to an intersection of four hallways. At the intersection, he glanced behind him to see the guards at the path from which he had come and he looked forward to see the rest of the trail. The King was waiting for him with his heirs. He knew that every moment he hesitated was another moment he was robbing from the guards who looked to rest after this pompous ceremony, but he still waited.
Is this it? He wondered. Is this the point where one war ends and another starts?
Aron looked to his left down the hallways, trying to see the murals that coated this particular hallway. Cursing under his breath, Aron broke from the path and grabbed one of the larger torches to light his way. The artists King Braden hired for the murals were skilled, Aron could not deny. The blinding light of Gendry Garstorian flared in Aron’s memory as he he saw the yellow silhouette standing atop three beautiful corpses. The dark purple and black colors showed the devastation the Wolf Horde had wrought in the first year of Braden sovereignty. But the mural still being painted was the one Aron wished to see because Aron was the main subject. The latest mural happened before the Wolf Horde but after the Garstorians. Aron had chosen this artist to use simple colors to show two brothers with the same face. The mural started with one brother’s back in the main focus wearing silver armor. He stood opposite his brother, also wearing silver armor. Their swords shined in the sunlight, even though Aron knew the battle had been inside.
Aron removed his helmet and let it fall to his side. He raised his hand to his brother’s ornately drawn face. It had once been identical to his own, but Gallion was forever young in this etching. Aron’s face was long and the disheveled fuzz growing from his chin made him appear disheveled. His hair was cut short around his head but the harsh riding had dirtied it and made it look ratted. He licked his cracked lips and cleared his throat.
“We should have been sailors, brother.” He said, his voice dry and hoarse. The fatigue nearly made him lose balance, but he focused his weight onto the wall, onto Gallion’s face. Regret flooded through Aron. At that moment he wanted nothing more than to swim in the ocean with his brother, unaware of the pain they would bring to each other. His balance returned and he looked at the mural. “I’ve brought peace, yet peace still eludes me.” The paint smeared as Aron lifted his hand, and his brother’s face became a blurred mix of gray and brown and black. Aron did not know if it was better that way.
“Lord Aron?” Called one of the guards. His voice was thick but had not yet cracked. “Lord Aron, the King awaits your arrival! Please come this way.”
Aron picked up his helmet and placed it back on his shoulders, relieved that the King’s court would not have to see a crusted drunkard deliver them peace. That was hardly what they expected after four years of war. The guard found him and took the torch. Aron allowed him to lead him back to the path because he had never felt more lost. Aron returned the knights’ salutes and arrived at the entryway to the throne room. A large metalworks door divided at the center sprang to life as a symphony of gears and mechanizations worked to push the doors outward. The steel slabs were thick and seamlessly rotated into hollows in the walls.
The throne room was silent as death. As Aron entered, the most dominat size was the elevated throne which sat on a platform connected to the floor by eight and sixty stairs. King Braden sat atop the throne, his black beard clearly visible even as far away as Aron was. The throne was twice as high as any man Aron had seen. It had been made for a deity larger than any man. That Braden had killed such a being yet looked so small sitting in the throne made Aron uneasy despite how well he knew the King. His daughters sat in more appropriately sized thrones to Braden’s left and to his right. As he approached the stairs he saw less and less of them because of the angle. To his left and right were hundreds of noblemen and women dressed in rich attire. Different colors and styles from every part of the known world characterized the vast group watching Aron. Some had dark eyes and others had bright eyes, but all of them were nervous. Aron knelt at the base of the first stairs and projected his voice as best he could.
“King Braden, I come from the West with news of the war.”
Braden rose from his throne and stood atop the highest stair. Aron dipped his head and allowed his neck to limply rest.
“Tell me of the Housebreaker,” the King demanded. The restless tone in the King’s voice assured Aron that he too wanted to have this over with.
“The Housebreaker, Rhys Batory, lies defeated in a cell, awaiting your judgment.”
“What of his sons? Do they live?”
“His bastard offspring ran from defeat and abandoned his men for the Western savages.”
“A problem for another day. To be solved by the legitimate son. What of Nolyn, the Housebreaker’s true blood?”
Aron heard the faintest of whispers emerge from the crowd.
“He proved himself loyal by defeating his bastard brother and his traitor father.” Aron heard the whispers vanish as he spoke. “He submits himself to your judgment. The West lies broken, its armies and cities submit themselves to your will. The Rebellion…” Aron took a breath. “Is over!”
The nobility clapped and applauded but none raised their voices to cheer.
“Thank you Lord Aron. You bring this news none too early. You have proven yourself a champion to the kingdom, and a true friend to me. As reward for your service, I elevate your son, Gale Jayt, to the rank of Lord and name him to the personal guard of my daughter, Anata.
I wonder who whispered that idea into your head, Braden. Aron dared not move to try to steal a glimpse at the king’s youngest daughter, a black haired child of thirteen. Perhaps Anata is the true victor in this war.
Braden’s daughters had seen the war begin and end safely within this fortress. Perhaps the next war would come from them. Perhaps it would be between them. The worst pain always came from sisters and brothers.
“Rise, old friend.” The warmth in Braden’s voice made Aron think of better times. He rose to his feet and looked up the stairs to see Braden still standing over the room. “You have done more for me than I could have ever asked of you. Now I must return the favor, and I ask you, what do you desire most?”
Aron saw the nobles look at him with spiteful jealousy. King Braden never offered blank favors to his friends or closest allies. If they could fight one another to death for such a thing, then the throne room would be as bloody as the battlefields Aron had left behind only days ago.
He removed his helmet, revealing his sunken eyes and his tired face. Several noblemen gasped at the sight of a haggard knight who appeared to have aged twenty years in the time of only four. His hair was gone, and a scar rounded the top of his forhead and ended at his missing ear.
Aron took a deep breath and imagined tasting the salty air of the coast.
“King Braden, hear me. I confess to the crime of slaying my brother while he was unarmed. Fifteen years ago I drove a sword through his chest at the base of a Faith Alter in the sight of the Lord of Lords himself, Attilius the Almighty. I have hid these crimes and ask for no forgiveness, only mercy for the heir to my house, Lord Gale Jayt. I ask that he retain his life and the honors you have bestowed onto him despite the shame I have brought to him and this kingdom. I am a slayer of kin and defiler of Faith. I desire justice and peace by being thrown into the sea!”
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