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She swallowed a draught of tea from her cup held by nothandle
and,
Bloom's thoughts telescope two sentences, producing an
accidental metaphor: To bone acrobats young so they metempsychosis (or metamspychosis) is to
overcome their fear of heights so they can be trained to fly,
an Ovidian transformation of human to bird. It is possible
to force a Wakean reading here, me-tam-spy-chosis
as Joyce's overlay of metam-orphosis upon
metem-psychosis to which has been added Molly's
possible misreading of the silent p in ps
now transposed to sp:
Unfortunately neither of the resulting puns -- tam
for tim and spy or spike for sy -- seems particularly meaningful. [End of message.]
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having wiped her fingertips smartly on the blanket, began to search the text
with the hairpin till she reached the word.
Met him what? he asked.
--Here, she said. What does that mean?
He leaned downward and read near her polished thumbnail.
--Metempsychosis?
--Yes. Who's he when he's at home?
--Metempsychosis, he said, frowning. It's Greek:
from the Greek. That
means the transmigration
of souls.
--O, rocks! she said. Tell us in plain words.
He smiled, glancing askance at her mocking
eyes. The same young
eyes. The first night after the charades.
Dolphin's Barn. He turned over the
smudged pages.
Ruby: the Pride of the Ring.
Hello. Illustration. Fierce
Italian with carriagewhip. Must be Ruby pride of the on the floor naked.
Sheet kindly lent. The monster Maffei desisted and flung his victim from him
with an oath. Cruelty behind it all. Doped animals. Trapeze
at Hengler's.
Had to look the other way. Mob gaping. Break your neck and we'll break
our sides. Families of them. Bone them young so they
metamspychosis.
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metamspychosis: Gabler's restoration of metamspychosis
[1922,1927] as Bloom's possible bridge from metempsychosis
to Molly's pronunciation (remembered afterwards as met
him pike hoses but not given here) presents
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Normal: metempsychosis me tem sye kos is Bloom: metamspychosis me tam spyc kos is Molly: met him pike hos es
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