James Joyce: Ulysses (unabridged)
Produced by Roger Marsh
Read by Jim Norton and Marcella Riordan
- Release Date: 23rd Apr 2004
- Catalogue No: NAX30912
- Label: Naxos AudioBooks
- Length: 27 hours 14 minutes
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James Joyce: Ulysses
- Recording Venue: The University of York Music Technology Studios, UK
Ulysses: 'Stately plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed...'
Ulysses: 'A bowl of white china had stood beside her deathbed holding the green sluggish bile...'
Ulysses: 'He walked off quickly round the parapet. Stephen stood at his post, gazing over the calm sea towards the headland.'
Ulysses: 'The key scraped round harshly twice and, when the heavy door had been set ajar, welcome light and bright air entered.'
Ulysses: 'He turned to Stephen and said: Seriously Dedalus. I'm stony.'
Ulysses: 'Buck Mulligan at once put on a blithe broadly smiling face.'
Ulysses: 'Two men stood at the verge of the cliff, watching: businessman, boatman.'
Ulysses: 'You, Cochrane, what city sent for him? Tarentum, Sir.'
Ulysses: 'Talbot slid his closed book into his satchel.'
Ulysses: 'A hasty step over the stone porch and in the corridor. Blowing out his rare moustache Mr Deasy halted at the table.'
Ulysses: 'Shouts rang shrill from the boys' playfield and a whirring whistle. Again: a goal.'
Ulysses: 'Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more, thought through my eyes.'
Ulysses: 'Morrow nephew...'
Ulysses: 'You were going to do wonders, what?'
Ulysses: 'A point, live dog, grew into sight...'
Ulysses: 'His lips lipped and mouthed fleshless lips of air...'
Ulysses: 'Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls.'
Ulysses: 'He approached Larry O'Rourkes...'
Ulysses: 'Grey horror seared his flesh.'
Ulysses: 'He felt here and there.'
Ulysses: 'The cat, having cleaned all her fur, returned to the meatstained paper.'
Ulysses: 'By lorries along Sir John Waterson's quay, Mr Bloom walked soberly...'
Ulysses: 'Mr Bloom gazed across the road at the outsider drawn up before the door of the Grosvenor.'
Ulysses: 'Mr Bloom stood at the corner...'
Ulysses: 'An incoming train clanked heavily above his head, coach after coach.'
Ulysses: 'Better be shoving along.'
Ulysses: 'Martin Cunningham, first, poked his silkhatted head into the creaking carriage and, entering deftly, seated himself.'
Ulysses: 'Martin Cunningham began to brush away crustcrumbs from under his thighs.'
Ulysses: 'He clasped his hands between his knees and, satisfied, sent his vacant glance over their faces.'
Ulysses: 'Dead side of the street this.'
Ulysses: 'The carriage galloped round a corner: stopped.'
Ulysses: 'How are you Simon? Ned Lambert said softly, clasping hands.'
Ulysses: 'Corny Kelleher fell into step at their side.'
Ulysses: 'The caretaker put the papers in his pocket.'
Ulysses: 'A seventh gravedigger came beside Mr Bloom to take up an idle spade.'
Ulysses: 'IN THE HEART OF THE HIBERNIAN METROPOLIS'
Ulysses: 'WE SEE THE CANVASSER AT WORK'
Ulysses: 'AND IT WAS THE FEAST OF THE PASSOVER'
Ulysses: 'WHAT WETHERUP SAID'
Ulysses: 'EXIT BLOOM'
Ulysses: 'Lenehan said to all:'
Ulysses: 'YOU CAN DO IT'
Ulysses: 'RHYMES AND REASONS'
Ulysses: 'IMPROMPTU'
Ulysses: 'LET US HOPE'
Ulysses: 'K.M.A.'
Ulysses: 'PINEAPPLE ROCK, LEMON PLATT, BUTTER SCOTCH. A SUGARSTICKY girl shovelling scoopfuls of creams for a Christian brother.'
Ulysses: 'He halted again, and bought from the old applewoman two Banbury cakes for a penny...'
Ulysses: 'Windy night that was I went to fetch her...'
Ulysses: 'A bony form strode along the curbstone from the river...'
Ulysses: 'Before the huge high door of the Irish house of parliament a flock of pigeons flew.'
Ulysses: 'Of the twoheaded octopus, one of whose heads is the head upon which the ends of the world have forgotten to come...'
Ulysses: 'He passed, dallying, the windows of Brown Thomas, silk mercers.'
Ulysses: 'He entered Davy Byrne's. Moral pub. He doesn't chat.'
Ulysses: 'Mr Bloom, champing, standing, looked upon his sigh. Nosey numskull.'
Ulysses: 'His downcast eyes followed the silent veining of the oaken slab.'
Ulysses: 'Mr Bloom walked towards Dawson Street, his tongue brushing his teeth smooth.'
Ulysses: 'With a gentle finger he felt ever so slowly the hair combed back above his ears.'
Ulysses: 'Urbane, to comfort them, the quaker librarian purred...'
Ulysses: 'Unsheathe your dagger definitions.'
Ulysses: 'How now, sirrah, that pound he lent you when you were hungry?'
Ulysses: 'Young Colum and Starkey. George Roberts is doing the commercial part.'
Ulysses: 'Good Bacon: gone musty. Shakespeare Bacon's wild oats.'
Ulysses: 'I came through the museum, Buck Mulligan said. Was he here?'
Ulysses: 'We want to hear more, John Eglinton decided with Mr Best's approval.'
Ulysses: 'The sense of beauty leads us astray, said beautifulinsadness Best to ugling Eglinton.'
Ulysses: 'What the hell are you driving at? I know. Shut up blast you! I have reasons.'
Ulysses: 'John Eglinton touched the foil. Come, he said. Let us hear what you have to say of Richard and Edmund.'
Ulysses: 'Those who are married, Mr Best, douce herald, said, all save one, shall live.'
Ulysses: 'The superior, the very reverend John Conmee S.J., reset his smooth watch in his interior pocket as he came down the presbytery steps.'
Ulysses: 'It was a peaceful day.'
Ulysses: 'Katey and Boody Dedalus shoved in the door of the closesteaming kitchen.'
Ulysses: 'Miss Dune hid the Capel Street library copy of The Woman in White far back in her drawer...'
Ulysses: 'Tom Rochford took the top disk from the pile he clasped against his claret waistcoat.'
Ulysses: 'Mr Bloom turned over idly pages of The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, then of Aristotle's Masterpiece.'
Ulysses: 'The lacquey by the door of Dillon's auctionrooms shook his handbell twice again and viewed himself in the chalked mirror of the cabinet.'
Ulysses: 'Stephen Dedalus watched through the webbed window the lapidary's fingers prove a timedulled chain.'
Ulysses: 'Hello, Simon, Father Cowley said. How are things?'
Ulysses: 'The youngster will be all right, Martin Cunningham said, as they passed out of the Castleyard gate.'
Ulysses: 'As they trod across the thick carpet Buck Mulligan whispered behind his panama to Haines.'
Ulysses: 'William Humble, earl of Dudley, and Lady Dudley, accompanied by lieutenantcolonel Hesseltine, drove out after luncheon from...'
Ulysses: 'BRONZE BY GOLD HEARD THE HOOFIRONS, STEELYRINGING Impethnthn thnthnthn.'
Ulysses: 'Yes, bronze from anear, by gold from afar, heard steel from anear, hoofs ring from afar, and heard steelhoofs ringhoof ringsteel.'
Ulysses: 'Gaily Miss Douce polished a tumbler, trilling: O, Idolores, queen of the eastern seas!'
Ulysses: 'Blazes Boylan's smart tan shoes creaked on the barfloor where he strode.'
Ulysses: 'Bald Pat in the doorway met tealess gold returning.'
Ulysses: 'Miss Douce, engaging, Lydia Douce, bowed to suave solicitor, George Lidwell, gentleman, entering. Good afternoon.'
Ulysses: 'Through the hush of air a voice sang to them, low, not rain, not leaves in murmur...'
Ulysses: 'Bloom ungyved his crisscrossed hands and with slack fingers plucked the slender catgut thong.'
Ulysses: 'He blotted quick on pad of Pat. Envel. Address. Just copy out of paper.'
Ulysses: 'Jog jig jogged stopped.'
Ulysses: 'Bless me father, Dollard the croppy cried. Bless me and let me go.'
Ulysses: 'Far. Far. Far. Far. Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap.'
Ulysses: 'I WAS JUST PASSING THE TIME OF DAY WITH OLD TROY OF THE DMP at the corner of Arbour Hill there...'
Ulysses: 'So we turned into Barney Kiernan's and there sure enough was the citizen up in the corner...'
Ulysses: 'So anyhow Terry brought the three points Joe was standing...'
Ulysses: 'In the darkness spirit hands were felt to flutter...'
Ulysses: 'So they started talking about capital punishment and of course Bloom comes out with the why and the wherefore and all the codology of...'
Ulysses: 'The last farewell was affecting in the extreme.'
Ulysses: 'So then the citizens begin talking about the Irish language and the corporation meeting and all to that...'
Ulysses: 'So Bon Doran comes lurching around asking Bloom to tell Mrs Dignam he was sorry for her trouble...'
Ulysses: 'Talking about violent exercise, says Alf, were you at the Keogh-Bennett match?'
Ulysses: 'Did you see that bloody lunatic Breen round there, says Alf? U.p: up.'
Ulysses: 'Those are nice things, says the citizen, coming over here to Ireland filing the country with bugs.'
Ulysses: 'As treeless as Portugal we'll be soon, says John Wyse, or Heliogoland with its one tree if something is not done to reaforrest the land.'
Ulysses: 'But, says Bloom, isn't discipline the same everywhere? I mean wouldn't it be the same here if you put force against force?'
Ulysses: 'And I belong to a race too, says Bloom, that is hated and persecuted. Also now. This very moment. This instant.'
Ulysses: 'So anyhow when I got back they were at it dingdong...'
Ulysses: 'And at the sound of the sacring bell, headed by a crucifer with acolytes...'
Ulysses: 'And begob he got as far as the door and they holding him and he bawls out of him: - Three cheers for Israel!'
Ulysses: 'THE SUMMER EVENING HAD BEGUN TO FOLD THE WORLD IN ITS mysterious embrace.'
Ulysses: 'Gerty MacDowell who was seated near her companions, lost in thought, gazing far away into the distance, was in very truth as fair...'
Ulysses: 'Edy Boardman asked Tommy Caffrey was he done and he said yes, so then she buttoned up his little knickerbockers for him and told him to...'
Ulysses: 'The twins were now playing in the most approved brotherly fashion...'
Ulysses: 'The exasperating little brats of twins began to quarrel again and Jacky threw the ball out towards the sea and they both ran after it.'
Ulysses: 'Then they sang the second verse of the Tantum ergo and Canon O'Hanlon got up again and censed the Blessed Sacrament...'
Ulysses: 'Canon O'Hanlon put the Blessed Sacrament back into the tabernacle and the choir sang Laudate Dominum omnes gentes...'
Ulysses: 'Mr Bloom watched her as she limped away. Poor Girl!'
Ulysses: 'There she is with them down there for the fireworks. My fireworks. Up like a rocket, down like a stick.'
Ulysses: 'Wonder how is she feeling in that region. Shame all put on before third person. More put out about a hole in her stocking.'
Ulysses: 'All quiet on Howth now. The distant hills seem. Where we. The rhododendrons. I am a fool perhaps.'
Ulysses: 'Better not stick here all night like a limpet. This weather makes you dull.'
Ulysses: 'Deshil Holles Eamus. Deshil Holles Eamus. Deshil Holles Eamus.'
Ulysses: 'The man that was come into the house then spoke to the nursing-woman and he asked her how it fared with the woman that lay there in...'
Ulysses: 'For they were right witty scholars. And he heard their aresouns each gen other as touching birth and righteousness...'
Ulysses: 'To be short this passage was scarce by when Master Dixon of Mary in Eccles, goodly grinning, asked young Stephen what was the reason...'
Ulysses: 'But was not young Basthard's fear vanquished by Calmer's words?'
Ulysses: 'With this came up Lenehan to the feet of the table to say how the letter was in that night's gazette and he made a show to find it...'
Ulysses: 'Our worthy acquaintance, Mr Malachi Mulligan, now appeared in the doorway as the students were finishing their apologue accompanied...'
Ulysses: 'Here the listener, who was none other than the Scotch students, a little fume of a fellow, blond as tow...'
Ulysses: 'Accordingly he broke his mind to his neighbour, saying that, to express his notion of the thing, his opinion...'
Ulysses: 'But Malachias' tale began to freeze them with horror. He conjured up the scene before them.'
Ulysses: 'The voices blend and fuse in clouded silence: silence that is the infinite of space...'
Ulysses: 'However, as a matter of fact though, the preposterous surmise about him being in some description of a doldrums or other mesmerised...'
Ulysses: 'Meanwhile the skill and patience of the physician had brought about a happy accouchement.'
Ulysses: 'Mark this farther and remember. The end comes suddenly.'
Ulysses: 'Hurroo! Collar the leather, youngun. Roun wi the nappy.'
Ulysses: 'The Mabbot street entrance of nighttown, before which stretches an uncobbled tramsiding set with skeleton tracks, red and green...'
Ulysses: 'BLOOM: Stitch in my side. Why did I run?'
Ulysses: 'MARION: Welly? Mrs Marion from this out, my dear man, when you speak to me.'
Ulysses: "MRS BREEN: The dear dead days beyond recall. Love's Old Sweet Song.'
Ulysses: '(Bloom passes. Cheap whores, singly, coupled, shawled, dishevelled, call from lanes, doors, corners.)'
Ulysses: 'BLOOM: Gentlement of the jury, let me explain.'
Ulysses: '(The crossexamination proceeds re Bloom and the bucket. A large bucket. Bloom himself.)'
Ulysses: 'MRS BELLINGHAM: Tan his breech well, the upstart! Write the stars and stripes on it!'
Ulysses: '(The portly figure of John O'Connell, caretaker, stands forth, holding a bunch of keys tied with crape.)'
Ulysses: 'LATE LORD MAYOR HARRINGTON: (In scarlet robe with mace, gold mayoral chain and large white silk scaft.)'
Ulysses: 'BLOOM: My beloved subjects, a new era is about to dawn.'
Ulysses: 'O MADDEN BURKE; Free fox in a free henroost'
Ulysses: '(Bloom walks on a net, covers his left eye with his left ear, passes through several walls...)'
Ulysses: 'ZOE: Ladies first, gentlemen after.'
Ulysses: 'THE GRAMOPHONE: Jerusalem! Open your gates and sing. Hosanna...'
Ulysses: '(A skeleton judashand strangles the light. The green light wanes to mauve. The gasjet wails whistling.)'
Ulysses: 'BLOOM: (Absently.) Ocularly woman's bivalve case is worse. Always open sesame.'
Ulysses: 'VIRAG: (Agueshaken, profuse yellow spawn foaming over his bony epileptic lips.) She sold lovephiltres...'
Ulysses: '(The door opens. Bella Cohen, a massive whoremistress enters.)'
Ulysses: 'BELLO: (Coaxingly.) Come, ducky dear. I want a word with you, darling, just to administer correction.'
Ulysses: 'BELLO: (Whistles loudly.) Say! What was the most revolting piece of obscenity in all your career of crime?'
Ulysses: 'A VOICE: Swear! (Bloom clenches his fists and crawls forward, a bowie knife between his teeth.)'
Ulysses: 'THE WATERFALL: Poulaphouca Poulaphouca Phoucaphouca Phoucaphouca.'
Ulysses: '(The figure of Bella Cohen stands before him.) BELLA: You'll know me the next time.'
Ulysses: 'LYNCH: (Embracing Kitty on the sofa, chants deeply.) Dona nobis pacem.'
Ulysses: '(Stephen and Bloom gaze in the mirror. The face of William Shakespeare, beardless, appears there...)'
Ulysses: '(A dark horse, riderless, bolts like a phantom past the winningpost, his mane moonfoaming, his eyeballs stars.)'
Ulysses: 'STEPHEN: Pas Seu! (He wheels Kitty into Lynch's arms...)'
Ulysses: 'THE WHORES: (Jammed in the doorway, pointing.) Down there.'
Ulysses: 'DOLLY GRAY: (From here balcony waves her handkerchief, giving the sign of the heroine of Jericho.)'
Ulysses: 'PRIVATE CARR: Here. What are you saying about my king?'
Ulysses: 'BLOOM: (Runs to Lynch.) Can't you get him away?'
Ulysses: 'THE WATCH: (Saluting together.) Night gentlemen.'
Ulysses: 'Preparatory to anything else Mr Bloom brushed off the greater bulk of the shavings and handed Stephen the hat and ashplant...'
Ulysses: 'Someone saluted you, Mr Bloom said.'
Ulysses: 'The pair parted company and Stephen rejoined Mr Bloom...'
Ulysses: 'Mr Bloom and Stephen entered the cabman's shelter, an unpretentious wooden structure, where, prior to then, he had rarely, if ever,...'
Ulysses: 'A silence ensued till Mr Bloom for agreeableness' sake just felt like asking him whether it was for a marksmanship competition like...'
Ulysses: 'Mr Bloom, without evincing surprise, unostentatiously turned over the card to peruse the partially obliterated address and postmark.'
Ulysses: 'Tired, seemingly, he ceased.'
Ulysses: 'The face of a streetwalker, glazed and haggard under a black straw hat, peered askew round the door of the shelter...'
Ulysses: 'Mind you, I'm not saying that it's all a pure invention, he resumed.'
Ulysses: 'All, meantime, were loudly lamenting the falling off in Irish shipping, coastwise and foreign as well, which was all part and parcel of...'
Ulysses: 'He turned a long you are wrong gaze on Stephen of timorous dark pride at the soft impeachment...'
Ulysses: 'At this pertinent suggestion, Mr Bloom, to change the subject, looked down...'
Ulysses: 'While the other was reading it on page two Bloom (to give him for the nonce his new misnomer) whiled away a few odd leisure moments...'
Ulysses: 'Just bears out what I was saying, he with glowing bosom said to Stephen. And, if I don't greatly mistake, whe was Spanish too.'
Ulysses: 'On the other hand what incensed him more inwardly was the blatant jokes of the cabmen and so on...'
Ulysses: 'Anyhow, upon weighing the pros and cons, getting on for one as it was, it was high time to be retiring for the night.'
Ulysses: 'Accordingly he passed his left arm in Stephen's right and led him on accordingly.'
Ulysses: 'These opening bars he sang and translated extempore.'
Ulysses: 'What Parallel courses did Bloom and Stephen follow returning?'
Ulysses: 'What discrete succession of images did Stephen meanwhile perceive?'
Ulysses: 'Having set the half filled kettle on the now burning coals, why did he return to the stillflowing tap?'
Ulysses: 'What attracted his attention lying on the apron of the dresser?'
Ulysses: 'What acrostic upon the abbreviation of his first name had he (kinetic poet) sent to Miss Marion Tweedy on the 14 February 1888?'
Ulysses: 'Were there no means still remaining to him to achieve the rejuvenation which these reminiscences divulged to a younger companion...'
Ulysses: 'What suggested scene was then constructed by Stephen?'
Ulysses: 'What system had proved more effective?'
Ulysses: 'In what common study did their mutual reflections merge?'
Ulysses: 'How did the father of Millicent receive this second part?'
Ulysses: 'What proposal did Bloom, diambulist, father of Milly, somnambulist, make to Stephen, noctambulist?'
Ulysses: 'In what order of precedence, with what attendant ceremony was the exodus from the house of bondage to the wilderness of inhabitation...?'
Ulysses: 'His (Bloom's) logical conclusion, having weighed the matter and allowing for possible error?'
Ulysses: 'What sound accompanied the union of their tangent, the disunion of their (respectively) centrifugal and centripetal hands?'
Ulysses: 'With what sensations did Bloom contemplate in rotation these objects?'
Ulysses: 'What among other data did the second volume of the work in question contain?'
Ulysses: 'What additional attractions might the grounds contain?'
Ulysses: 'Prove that he had loved rectitude from his earliest youth.'
Ulysses: 'Positing what protasis would the contraction for such several schemes become a natural and necessary apodosis?'
Ulysses: 'Quote the textual terms in which the prospectus claimed advantages for this thaumaturgic remedy.'
Ulysses: 'What did the 2nd drawer contain?'
Ulysses: 'What object offered partial consolation for these reminiscences?'
Ulysses: 'What advantages were possessed by an occupied, as distinct from an unoccupied bed?'
Ulysses: 'What did his limbs, when gradually extended, encounter?'
Ulysses: 'In what final satisfaction did these antagonistic sentiments and reflections, reduced to their simplest forms, converge?'
Ulysses: 'YES BECAUSE HE NEVER DID A THING LIKE THAT BEFORE AS ASK TO get his breakfast in bed with a couple of eggs...'
Ulysses: 'why can't you kiss a man without going and marrying him...'
Ulysses: 'they're all so different Boylan talking about the shape of my foot...'
Ulysses: 'I hate people who come at all hous answer the door you think it's the vegetables then it's somebody...'
Ulysses: 'yes and half the girls in Gibraltar never wore them either naked as God made them...'
Ulysses: 'sure you can't get in this world without style all going in food and rent...'
Ulysses: 'frseeeeeeeefronnnng train somewhere whistling the strength those engines have in them like big giants...'
Ulysses: 'the days like years not a letter from a living soul except the odd few I posted to myself...'
Ulysses: 'he was looking at me I had that white blouse on open at the front to encourage him as much as I could without too openly...'
Ulysses: 'that was a relief wherever you be let your wind go free...'
Ulysses: 'I'm too honest as a matter of fact I suppose he thinks I'm finished out and laid on the shelf...'
Ulysses: 'who knows is there something the matter with my insides or have I something growing in me...'
Ulysses: 'wait there's Georges church bells wait 3 quarters the hour wait...'
Ulysses: 'wait by god yes wait yes hold on he was on the cards this morning when I laid out the deck...'
Ulysses: 'no that's no way for him he no manners nor no refinement nor no nothing...'
Ulysses: 'O I'm not going to think myself into the glooms about that any more...'
Ulysses: 'God of heaven there's nothing like nature the wild mountains then the sea and the waves rushing...'