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6. Endnotes
Continuing with the paternitity motif of Ulysses and reaffirming the consubstantiation
of Stephen and Bloom, Bloom has also left his "father's house," as the ghostly apparition
of his father accuses him in "Circe": "Are you not my dear son Leopold who left the
house of his father and left the god of his fathers Abraham and Jacob?" (15.261-2).
2 The term "pandies" is derived from "pandy bat," a leather-covered whale bone used for
corporal punishment.
3 Joyce was also elected to this position while a student at Belvedere (Sullivan 116-8).
4 Kevin Sullivan describes this regimentation process: "At Clongowes, a boarding school,
Joyce had been under the constant daily supervision of Jesuit masters and prefects. He
arose in the morning to their salutation, "Laudetur Jesus Christus," and went to bed at
night to their benediction, "Deo Gratias." In between he prayed, studied, played,
walked, talked and ate always in the company of Jesuits" (Sullivan 93).
5
Perhaps, as Kevin Sullivan suggests, Rimbaud, who envisioned the poet as a "Hermetic
priest," is the model for the poet-priest identity adopted by both Joyce and Stephen, or,
as proposed by Richard Cross, the model is Flaubert (Sullivan 145).
6 In a conversation with his brother, Stanislaus, Joyce describes his aesthetic theory
similarly:
Don't you think . . . there is a certain resemblance between the mystery of
the Mass and what I am trying to do? I mean trying to give people some
kind of intellectual pleasure or spiritual enjoyment by converting the
bread of everyday life into something that has a permanent artistic life of
its own . . . for their mental, moral, and spiritual uplift. (My Brother's
103-4)
Stanislaus Joyce describes how neither he nor his brother James would kneel to pray
for their dying mother. James, unlike Stanislaus, demonstrated the same guilt which
Stephen displays. As Stanislaus relates: "the scene seems to have burnt itself into my
brother's soul" (234).
8
As a youth, Stephen was accused of heresy by Mr. Tate, one of his teachers: "Here.
It's about the Creator and the soul. . without a possibility of ever approaching nearer.
That's heresy" (A Portrait 78).
9 As Thornton notes, this is an allusion to a remark by John Dryden about Jonathan
Swift: "Cousin Swift, you will never be a poet" (49).
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