26 (U643.1601)

yes and all the queer little streets 


26th cast. page 643, line 1601.

 

yes and all the queer little streets and the pink and blue and yellow houses and the rosegardens and the jessamine and geraniums and cactuses and Gibraltar as a girl where I was a Flower of the mountain yes

 

Episode 18. The last episode is the stream of consciousness of Mr. Bloom's wife, Molly.

It is 36 pages long and consists of eight sentences without periods or commas, with commas only at the end of the fourth and eighth sentences.

 

It was past three in the night.  the novel is about to end in ten lines.

 

She recalls Mr. Bloom's proposal of marriage on the hill of Howth, which was triggered by her desire to decorate her room with flowers. She remembers the British Gibraltar where she was born and raised, associating it with the fact that Mr. Bloom said, "You are a flower of the mountain”.

 

The Rose Garden would be in Alameda Park in Gibraltar. (U643.1599)

 

Ulysses is based on a motif from the Odyssey. I think Gibraltar is taken because Odysseus crossed the Strait of Gibraltar to the underworld.

 

The flowers are the flowers in the botanical gardens of Gibraltar, the rhododendrons of the hill of Howth, Molly herself, a mountain flower, and Bloom, whose name means flower.

Statue of Molly Bloom


The statue of Morrie Bloom in Alameda Park. The base is inscribed with just this passage.
 

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