Quotation from: Ulysses

Written by: James Joyce


STEPHEN: (DEVOUTLY) And sovereign Lord of all things.


FLORRY: (TO STEPHEN) I'm sure you're a spoiled priest. Or a monk.


LYNCH: He is. A cardinal's son.


STEPHEN: Cardinal sin. Monks of the screw.


(HIS EMINENCE SIMON STEPHEN CARDINAL DEDALUS, PRIMATE OF ALL IRELAND,
APPEARS IN THE DOORWAY, DRESSED IN RED SOUTANE, SANDALS AND SOCKS. SEVEN
DWARF SIMIAN ACOLYTES, ALSO IN RED, CARDINAL SINS, UPHOLD HIS TRAIN,
PEEPING UNDER IT. HE WEARS A BATTERED SILK HAT SIDEWAYS ON HIS HEAD. HIS
THUMBS ARE STUCK IN HIS ARMPITS AND HIS PALMS OUTSPREAD. ROUND HIS NECK
HANGS A ROSARY OF CORKS ENDING ON HIS BREAST IN A CORKSCREW CROSS.
RELEASING HIS THUMBS, HE INVOKES GRACE FROM ON HIGH WITH LARGE WAVE
GESTURES AND PROCLAIMS WITH BLOATED POMP:)

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