Sunday, June 22, 2025

the last book I ever read (Ulysses by James Joyce (The Gabler Edition), excerpt twenty-one)

from Ulysses by James Joyce:

His justifications?

As a physicist he had learned that of the 70 years of complete human life at least 2/ 7ths, viz., 20 years passed in sleep. As a philosopher he knew that at the termination of any allotted life only an infinitesimal part of any person’s desires has been realised. As a physiologist he believed in the artificial placation of malignant agencies chiefly operative during somnolence.



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