Ulysses by James Joyce Chapter 9 Page 5

world of ideas. All the rest is the speculation of schoolboys for schoolboys.

A. E. has been telling some yankee interviewer. Wall, tarnation strike me!

The schoolmen were schoolboys first, Stephen said superpolitely. Aristotle was once Plato’s schoolboy.

And has remained so, one should hope, John Eglinton sedately said. One can see him, a model schoolboy with his diploma under his arm.

He laughed again at the now smiling bearded face.

Formless spiritual. Father, Word and Holy Breath. Allfather, the heavenly man. Hiesos Kristos, magician of the beautiful, the Logos who suffers in us at every moment. This verily is that.

I am the fire upon the altar. I am the sacrificial butter.