Sublime

she had sacrificed everything she knew for a love as ephemeral and transient as the rainbows that glimmered through the sea spray.

pertness;

As I see it, the vital need at present is to stress that Ulysses is a great universal masterpiece, not a great freak. Its category is as much the category of Paradise Lost (or the Odyssey, of course) as that of Tristram Shandy

What, nowadays, is the constituency of Ulysses? Who reads it? Who curls up with Ulysses? It is thoroughly studied, it is exhaustively unzipped and unseamed, it is much deconstructed. But who reads Ulysses for the hell of it?

I am the boy That can enjoy Invisibility. Phantasmal mirth, folded away: muskperfumed.