Marking Time

From James Joyce’s Ulysses:

So Bob Doran comes lurching around asking Bloom to tell Mrs Dignam he was sorry for her trouble and he was very sorry about the funeral and to tell her that he said and everyone who knew him said that there was never a truer, a finer than poor little Willy that’s dead to tell her. Choking with bloody foolery. And shaking Bloom’s hand doing the tragic to tell her that. Shake hands, brother. You’re a rogue and I’m another.

Rather upsets a man’s day, a funeral does. He has influence they say.

Mark Waters marked time at 8:32 am on June 16th, 2006 .

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