Ulysses by James Joyce Chapter 1 Page 11

wear grey trousers.

He folded his razor neatly and with stroking palps of fingers felt the smooth skin.

Stephen turned his gaze from the sea and to the plump face with its smokeblue mobile eyes.

That fellow I was with in the Ship last night, said Buck Mulligan, says you have g. p. i. He’s up in Dottyville with Connolly Norman. General paralysis of the insane!

He swept the mirror a half circle in the air to flash the tidings abroad in sunlight now radiant on the sea.

His curling shaven lips laughed and the edges of his white glittering teeth. Laughter seized all his strong wellknit trunk.

Look at yourself, he said, you dreadful bard!