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Sunday, November 2, 2014

Page 245 (11.1-28) "Bronze by gold heard... Clappyclap."

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Bronze by gold heard the hoofirons, steelyringing.

cymbals:

Imperthnthn thnthnthn.

could this suggest a kazoo?

comb-and-tissue-paper goes back at least to 1869

(but why give it such prominence?)

Chips, picking chips off rocky thumbnail, chips.

(?Budgen says Joyce found this image hardest to choose)

snare drum:

Horrid! And gold flushed more.

A husky fifenote blew.

train-whistle:

flute:

Blew. Blue bloom is on the.

mp3:

'Bloom is on the rye'

french horn:

Gold pinnacled hair.

A jumping rose on satiny breast of satin, rose of Castile.

viola:

Trilling, trilling: Idolores.

mp3:

flute:

"Idolores"

Peep! Who's in the... peepofgold?

flute:

Tink cried to bronze in pity.

And a call, pure, long and throbbing. Longindying call.

tuning fork:

cello:

Decoy. Soft word. But look! The bright stars fade. Notes chirruping answer. O rose! Castile. The morn is breaking.

the word "Decoy" needs better explication

mp3:

The bright stars fade

Jingle jingle jaunted jingling.

sleigh bells:

Boylan arrives and leaves by jaunting car with jingling springs

Coin rang. Clock clacked.

coin:

clock:

Avowal. Sonnez. I could. Rebound of garter. Not leave thee. Smack. La cloche! Thigh smack. Avowal. Warm. Sweetheart, goodbye!

elastic:

mp3:

Jingle. Bloo.

Boomed crashing chords. When love absorbs. War! War! The tympanum.

midi:

sheetmusic

bass drum:

A sail! A veil awave upon the waves.

'Last farewell' sheetmusic

cliche

Lost. Throstle fluted. All is lost now.

mp3:

Tutto e sciolto

cf p90: "Beautiful on that tre her voice is: weeping tone. A thrust. A throstle. There is a word throstle that expresses that."

Horn. Hawhorn.

braying trumpet: