...to be free of a God and a creed which no longer extracts any allegiance from him remains unshaken. Silently, in a dream she had come to him after her death, her wasted hody within its loose brown graveclothes giving off an odor of wax and rosewood, her breath, that had...

...pages. Stephen, an elbow raised against the jagged granite, leaned his palm against his brow . . . pain that was not yet the pain of love fretted his heart. Silently as in a dream she had come to him after her death, her wasted body within its loose brown grave-clothes,...

...in Buck's teeth. The narrative voice moves extremely close to Stephen's mind when it informs us that 'pain, that was not yet the pain of love, fretted his heart' (5.31) — how close this is to Stephen's thought process can be seen from the previous sentence, which...

...room. It's a beastly thing and nothing else.") The Ghost beheld by Stephen is that of his mother, " her wasted body within its loose brown graveclothes giving off an odour of wax and rosewood ". Having planted the correspondence firmly in the first episode, Joyce drops its detailed development...

...start as they are distant from each other. In "Telemachus," for example, the narrator says of Stephen, "Pain, that was not yet the pain of love, fretted his heart" (5/1.102). Joyce moves in on Stephen through the "Telemachiad," which increases its interiority with...

...father whose death and funeral he had missed, Stephen is visited by a guiltinducing parental ghost: "Silently, in a dream she had come to him after her...an odour of wax and rosewood, her breath, that had been upon him, mute, reproachful, a faint odour of wetted ashes" (5; also 9, 23, 473-5). Stephen fears...

...granite, leaned his palm against his brow and gazed at the fraying edge of his shiny black coatsleeve. Pain, that was not yet the pain of love, fretted his...her death, her wasted body within its loose brown grave clothes giving off an odour of wax and rosewood, her breath, that had bent upon him, mute, reproachful,...

...sa mère morte, la lenteur quasi incantatoire du début de la phrase annonce le souvenir-fantasme : "Silently, in a dream she had come to him after her death" ( U 5). La redistribution des mots dans la traduction fait disparaître cette scansion : "Depuis sa...

...palm against his brow and gazed at the fraying edge of his shiny black coatsleeve. Pain, that was not the pain of love, fretted his heart. Silently, in...after her death, her wasted body within its loose graveclothes giving off an odour of wax and rosewood, her breath. that had bent upon him, mute, reproachful,...