WHAT THE SUN DID WITH THE SPANGLES
September 13, 2011
Here we have a crude illustration as to why the sentence closing the Nestor chapter in James Joyce’s ULYSSES is the loon’s favorite sentence ever written. The sentence is the nearly blind Irishman’s way of boasting, “Oh, by the way, I can do this.” Well, what is the sentence? The sentence goes thusly: ‘On his wise shoulders through the checkerwork of leaves the sun flung spangles, dancing coins.” Look at the picture. Add a cup of breeze. See the sun flung spangles turning into dancing coins?
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