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cuttergauthier · 1 year
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Stay With Me
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Female reader x Cutter Gauthier
Warning: against, Abusive Ex-boyfriend, Toxic ex-boyfriend, fluff Cutter
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let me know what you guys think🤍
Today was a long day, I had an exam to do that I’m pretty sure I failed, I had to study for another one next week, so when my best friend asked me if I wanted to go to a party tonight that the hockey team was throwing, I agreed immediately.
I live alone in an apartment that’s five minutes from campus, my best friend Julia came over so we could get ready together.
“What are you going to wear?” she asked me as she was looking in my closet for something she could borrow.
“Probably my light mom jeans and a long sleeve satin white top” I said as I was curling my hair in loose waves.
“Oh that’s going to look good.” She said smirking
“what’s that look for?”
“oh nothing, I just think it’s time for you to get back out there”
“seriously Julia”
“Hon it’s been 2 months, it’s time, not every guy you meet is going to be like him. I mean there’s a bunch of single guys on the hockey team, plus you’re already friends with them” she said encouraging me
“we’ll see”
She let the conversation go and we finished getting ready before going to the senior’s house where the party was held.
When we got there, we went our separate ways. Julia went to find her boyfriend, he was supposed to meet her here. I went to see if I could find one of the boys.
I saw Will and Ryan talking, so I made my way over to them.
“Hey boys” I said smiling at them
“Y/n” Ryan exclaimed giving me a hug, making me laugh
Will hugged me next.
“We missed you, haven’t see you around this week” Will said
“I know sorry, been busy with exams”
“Well you’re here now, that’s all that matters” Ryan said making me smile
“come on let’s go get you something to drink” Will said as him and Ryan dragged me into the kitchen.
“you guys just want to get me drunk”
“What no” Will said
“Maybe” Ryan said with no shame, making me laugh at him while Will shook his head at his teammate.
We made our way in the kitchen, Ryan grabbed a cherry white claw and give it to me.
“Here you go, drink up”
“Thank you”
“So how have you been?” Will asked
“Pretty good, haven’t done much except for studying lately but I only have one exam left before the semester ends which is good, what about you guys how’s classes and hockey been”
“pretty good” Will said, Ryan agreeing with him.
I stayed talking with them until I finished my drink, once I was done, I got myself another one saying bye to the boys in going to the living room hoping I’ll find some of the others.
I was walking around when someone grabbed my wrist tightly making me turn around and look who it was. I saw it was my abusive ex-boyfriend Mason. My eyes widened. I looked around hoping to see one of the guys, but I didn’t.
“The boys aren’t going to protect you this time y/n, I think it’s time we have a little chat” he slurred trying to drag me away, I was fighting back frightened. I could tell he was drunk. The boys knew what happened between us, I just hope one of them saw, because I didn’t want to go anywhere with him. I was surprised he even got into the house since it belonged to the seniors on the hockey team.
He dragged me up the stairs when Cutter saw what was happening. Cutter and I don’t get along one bit, he always gets snarky with me and makes fun of me.
“What the hell do you think you’re doing” he said to my ex-boyfriend
“Nothing you have to worry about” my ex responded and went to walk across Cutter, but Cutter looked at me and saw I was scared. He put his hand on my ex’s chest.
“Let her go”
“No, leave us alone” Mason said, he went to push Cutter away
“Dude I swear to god you better let her or you won’t like what happens to you.” Cutter said angrily
“You know what fine, she’s not worth it” mason said pushing me into Cutter and walking away.
Cutter caught me before I fell. I was crying by now and my wrist hurt a lot.
“are you okay” he ask as he look at me up and down to make sure I wasn’t hurt, then he saw my wrist taking it in his hand making me hiss.
“Does it hurt” he asked looking at it.
“yeah…”
“Come on, I’ll take you home” he said leading me downstairs and to his car.
The car ride went by fast since I only live 10 minutes away. In the corner of my eyes I saw Cutter looking at me a few times.
Once we got to my apartment, he walked me inside to make sure my ex didn’t show up.
I unlocked my door and Cutter went to walk away but I grabbed his wrist making him look at me.
“Please stay with me” I said softly
He turns to spit out a snide remark, but he bites his tongue when he sees my eyes glistening with tears.
“…please, I know we hate each other but,” repeated softly “I’m scared”
He nodded coming into the apartment closing and locking the door.
He turned and looked at me.
He brought me into a hug. I starting sobbing.
“You don’t deserve any of the things he did to you” he said
“You don’t know that”
“Yes I do, no one deserves what he did to you”
“Thank you for helping me tonight” I said when we release the hug.
“Anytime Y/n, you might not believe me but I care about you”
I smiled and looked at his lips before looking back at his eyes.
I knew he caught me. He started to smirk.
“do you want me to kiss you y/n” he said in a cocky tone
“no chance” I said
He smiled and leaned in and kissed me.
I kissed him back.
We broke apart breathing heavy.
“I should have done that sooner, you’re a pretty good kisser y/n” he said smirking making me laugh.
I slapped his chest.
“can I take you out tomorrow?” He asked
“Like on a date?”
“Yeah”
“I’d love to” I replied smiling making him kissing me again.
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huggybug · 2 years
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Idk if you write for him but could you do a cutter insta edit of him with a Hughes sister or her bringing him home for the first time
y/nhughes
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y/nhughes surprise visitor 💋
cuttergauthier_ ❤️
jackhughes yeah send him back home
y/nhughes he could take you in a fight so i’d stay quiet jacky
cuttergauthier_ woah woah woah
colecaufield WHO LET Y/N GET A BOYFRIEND
alexaturcotte_ this should not be allowed
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quinnhughes_ that’s enough
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dylanduke whaaaat
lhughes_06 sleep with one eye open bud
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matthewkniesys · 2 years
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On My Mind- Cutter Gauthier
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Summary: Its draft night. The night should be all about where Cutter ends up but instead he can't get the girl that's sitting at the Philadelphia Flyers staff table out of his head...
Pairing: Cutter Gauthier x fem!reader
Warnings: I think one swear word?
A/n: Hey guys! I'm back with another work! This was requested by a nonnie so I hope you like it!! I just wanna say that I've never been to a draft and I have no idea how it goes so this is purely a guess and a work of fiction. Hope you enjoy and as always feedback is always welcome!
Draft day... possibly the most nerve-wracking day in a young hockey players career and yet here was Cutter worrying more about the girl sitting at the table with the Philadelphia flyers staff than the actual draft ahead of him. Who was she? Cutter didn't know but he did know that she was hot. Like potentially the prettiest girl he had ever seen and she definitely looked around his age.
Cutter wasn't really looking for a realationship right now. He is 18, with his whole career ahead of him. He isn't one of those guys who want to focus on only hockey and never get a girlfriend, but right now just isn't the right time. Next year he's gonna be in Boston and long distance wasn't really appealing to him.
That girl though, the one sitting at the flyers table, there is something special about her. Cutter knew it from the moment he first saw her. For him she wouldn't be just the girl he hooked up with on draft night, no, she would be different, something more meaningful, something more permanent.
The draft was about to start and cutter was sitting with his family. He really had no idea where he would be picked. He was pretty sure he would be top ten but he really didn't know. Philadelphia has the 5th pick and honestly is that a team he would love to be on...no, but he needed to meet that girl. He has made it his mission to meet her by the end of the night and being drafted to Philadelphia would make it a whole lot easier.
Pick 1 goes to Juraj Slafkovsky. Surprising that it's not Shane Wright but good for him he deserves it. Pick 2 is Simon Nemec and up next is cutter's good friend logan. He's happy for them but when is it his turn? At 4 is Shane and then it's pick 5. The flyers have pick 5. He knows it's a real possibility that he gets drafted by them. They had, had a few meetings and he knows they are interested in him.
"It's gonna be you next" he hears someone, his dad, say to him quietly.
"Maybe... there's lots of talent in this draft it could be anyone" Cutter replies with.
"But it's gonna be you" and with that they quiet down as they see the philly's executive team head onto the stage. The girl, the one Cutter still has no idea what her name is stands in front of the mic. She starts to speak.
"With the fifth overall pick in the 2022 nhl draft the Philadelphia Flyers are proud to select from the USA national development program... Cutter Gauthier."
To Cutter in that moment it felt like everything stopped. He had just been drafted... drafted to a fucking nhl team, and yet the girl was still in his mind. At least this made it a lot easier to talk to her.
He got out of his seat and without really thinking about it started to hug his family. He felt lIke he was floating and not really conscious. He hugged each family member but it didn't really register. All he could think about was being drafted fifth overall to the flyers and her. He knew he would never get her out of his mind. Not if he ended up with her, not if he never ever talked to her.
He made his way to the stage and and walks up the stairs. He shakes hands and puts on the jersey. He realises as he's putting the jersey on how close he is to her. He stands and takes pictures, then immediately gets ushered to do an interview. He didn't even get a chance to say one thing to her.
He goes through the interview and answers the questions you would expect he would get asked. How are you feeling, what's the experience like, how do you feel about going to the flyers organization, you know stuff like that. He answers the questions without really thinking. His mind is... elsewhere.
He sees her, the girl, walking over to him towards the end of the interview. They wrap it up quickly and Cutter gets up.
"Umm, hey I'm y/n, I'm on the flyers staff and they sent me to get you." Says the girl, no, y/n. Y/n, a pretty name for a pretty girl, thought Cutter.
Cutter follows you, as you weave threw the crowd. Trying to make small talk and also trying to get to know you better he asks "so how old are you?" Asks Cutter.
You laugh and answer "same as you."
"That's cool. I'm Cutter by the way." He says, not thinking about the fact that you definitely already know his name.
"Yeah, believe it or not I kinda know that. I happened to announce your name tonight." You reply laughing once again. You find yourself laughing a lot in the short time you've been chatting with Cutter.
"So I've gotta drop you off here for more interviews" Cutter groans and you turn on your heals to leave.
"Wait, uh could I maybe get your number?" You hear Cutter ask shyly.
You pause for a moment then respond "Sure pretty boy." Cutter passes his phone to you and you quickly add your number.
"I'll talk to you later?" He tells you but it sounds more like a question than a statment.
"Of course, as soon as your done your 100 interviews."
"You'll be on my mind the whole time."
Lmk if yall want more parts cause I could definitely do that! I'm also always open to talk about this so yall can send in concepts or ideas!
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Tagging some fellow Cutter lovers: @sean-kuraly @sillinger @cuttergauthierr
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toasttt11 · 11 days
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December 31, 2022
The team was playing against the University of North Dakota. The first game back since their Christmas break, a break that made Riley have quite a few realizations.
She stepped on the ice tapping the back of Will and Gabe’s helmets before they lined up waiting for the puck to drop.
Quickly North Dakota scored on the U-18 and Riley already got her first penalty for tripping a player.
North Dakota scored once more making the score become 2-0.
Riley stole the puck from the opposing player and quickly passed it across the ice right to Will, Will quickly brought the puck closer to the net and passed it right across the ice to Gabe, who smacked into the back of the net, making the U-18 finally get a point in the board .
Will and Gabe skated right into Riley and brought her into a group hug, all of them yelling in excitement.
Riley, Gabe and Will all hopped onto the ice for their next shift, Riley took the puck bringing it down the ice towards the goal, she sharply passed it back to Gabe who quickly passed it across the ice to Will and Will quickly took a slap shot onto the net, making the score become tied up 2-2.
“Woohoo!” Gabe yelled happily as Riley and him pulled Will into a tight hug on the ice.
“Nice Smitty.” Riley mumbled knocking her helmet to Will’s helmet.
“Thanks Slugger.” Will beamed back towards his two best friends.
The first period ended with the score 2-2.
Will gently pulled on Riley’s long braid as they stepped back onto the ice for the second period, Gabe smiled at the two watching as Riley turned around playfully glared at Will.
“Leave Snips alone Smitty.” Gabe nudged Will away from her and happily pulled Riley to him, sticking his tongue out playfully at Will.
Will just shook his head with an extremely fond smile before they had to skate to center for the start of the period.
They almost went the entire period before something happened, sadly North Dakota scored again.
With just two minutes left of the period Gabe, Will and Riley hopped onto the ice.
Riley took the puck to the blue line and passed it across the ice straight to Will, who passed it to over to Gabe, Gabe passed it right into the goal.
“Good job Gabe-o.” Riley gave Gabe a proud smile patting him on the shoulder making Gabe beam happily and his cheeks turn pink.
The score was tied 3-3 at the end of the second period.
The third period was slow and all shots were continuously getting blocked making the score stay the same.
Riley turned around seeing an opposing player slam Gabe into the boards, Gabe fell down onto his knees.
Riley felt something snap and she didn’t wait a second before her gloves and stick was thrown to the grown and she pulled the player away from Gabe and started throwing multiple punches at the player.
Will helped Gabe stand up quickly checking him with his eyes and nodded seeing he was okay, they turned around seeing Riley absolutely destroying the player, She was throwing a lot of punches at his face before she was dragged off by the refs still yelling at the player as she continued to get dragged to the penalty box.
Will smirked watching the whole thing and groaned as Gabe elbowed him in the side, “What?” Will looked at Gabriel in question.
“Don’t encourage her.” Gabe sternly told Will, Gabe knew how much Will thought it was hot when Riley fought but he didn’t want her getting hurt anymore.
Riley let out a harsh breath pulling her helmet off and chucking it on the bench before she sat down and ran a hand over her head and winced at her knuckles rubbing on her head.
She put her hands down and winced slighty at her extremely bloody knuckles and the multiple split knuckles, she shook her hands out and grabbed a towel pouring some water on it and wiping some blood off.
Riley already knew she was going to get a stern lecture from Gabe for getting hurt from the fight.
They ended up losing in overtime and Riley managed to avoid the boys for a little longer by heading to the medical team and got her hands all cleaned up.
Riley luckily could take as long as she wanted as the hotel was next to the arena and they walked over so she didn’t need to rush.
She took a long shower leaning into the cold water and let out a breath. She’s been unsettled since she realized her feelings for the boys and truthfully she didn’t know what to do next, like just go up to them and say oh hi i think I’m in love with you both okay cool.
Riley groaned frustrated and just blew out a long breath. She was wondering if her feelings for Gabe and Will were worth the risk of losing her two best friends.
Riley got out of the shower and dried off and just threw on sweatpants and t-shirt not in the mood it put her suit back on and besides mostly everyone is gone so it did not matter if she had it one.
Riley grabbed her bag and reluctantly put on her coat because she knew it worry Gabe is she walked through the snow with no coat even if it would feel nice too.
Riley walked the quick walk back to the hotel, she saw many people walking by all dressed up and she remembered that it was new year’s eve and would be new year in a few hours.
Riley walked into the hotel and chose to take the stairs not wanting to have any human interaction that was not Gabe or Will.
She walked down the hallway and passed her own hotel room to the one next to it, that she knew was open for her.
She quietly walked in and saw the boys cuddled up on a bed and she closed the door behind her. Her heart clenched fondly seeing them cuddling with each other and she knows the two like each other, it’s obvious she just is hopeful that have room for her too in their hearts.
Will looked up and smiled softly seeing Riley in the room, he patted the bed for her to join. Gabe was cuddled into Wills side and has his head hidden in Will’s neck dosing off.
Riley bit her lip but nodded she dropped her stuff on the desk and took her coat and shoes off, she walked over and Will reached up grabbing her hand and pulling her down so she fell gently on to the top and curled up between them.
Gabe sleepily opened his eyes and beamed seeing Riley had joined them and is laying on them, he wrapped an arm around her snuggled even closer to the two.
Will gently rubbed Riley on the back making her relax on them and Will softly smiled and he could practically hear her thinking with questions, “Relax Slugger, we can talk about us when we all wake up.” Will softly reassured her and Riley nodded and laid her head on his chest and began relaxing extremely fast and felt so comfortable cuddling with them both.
The three of them all managed to sleep for a good few hours before the alarm Will had set for the countdown went off.
Gabe rubbed his eyes and smiled again as he realized it wasn’t a dream that Riley was cuddling with them. He looked up and saw Will looking at them with a fond smile. Gabe leaned up more and gave Will his forehead kiss before feeling Riley start to move and saw her eyes slowly blinking open.
“Hi snips.” Gabe spoke softly and gently played with the ends of her hair.
“Hi.” Riley looked between them nervously.
Will and Gabe shared a look a nodded.
“We like you.” Will started off slowly and gently kept rubbing her back especially feeling her tense up in shock.
“And we like each other.” Gabe bluntly told her and smiled hopefully, “So?” Gabe looked at her with hope.
“We uh wanted to wait for you.” Will explained seeing her questioning look, he remembered kissing Gabe for the first time in the summer and knew he was always gonna be stuck with him and Riley.
“All three of us together?” Riley asked titling her head curiously really liking the idea. Will and Gabe but quickly nodded in unison.
“Ok.” Riley bit her lip hiding her smile seeing them both so exicted by her answer.
“Oh thank god. I need to kiss both of you and was gonna die if i had to wait any longer.” Gabe dramatically told them making Riley and Will share a fond look.
Will grabbed his chin softly and pressed his lips passionately to Gabe’s. Gabe quickly kissed him back running a hand through Will’s blonde curls.
Riley smiled watching the two and really enjoyed seeing the two together.
“Don’t forgot about our girl.” Will gave a stern look to Gabe when Gabe whined when they stopped kissing but Will’s words made him perk up.
Gabe looked back at Riley and smiled leaning down pressing his lips to hers gently and almost whined loudly at Riley tugging at his curls.
Will think he almost enjoyed watching them more.
Riley pulled away panting slighty but leaned up to Will, who met her half way and connected his lips to her.
They pulled away from each other and Riley laid her head back down on Will’s chest and grabbed Gabe’s hand intertwining their hands. Will wrapped his arm around Gabe’s shoulder and Gabe scooted closer resting his head next to Riley’s
The sound of fireworks went off like crazy outside as it hit the new year.
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uluvjay · 1 year
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Insta edit- C. Gauthier
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Cutter Gauthier x hughes sister
All pics from Pinterest!
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Y/nHughes And that’s a wrap on year 2🎬
Tagged: CutterGuathier , bestfriend
User1 omg she’s dating Cutter
User2 wonder what her brothers think
Bestfriend Best year ever⭐️
RutgerMcgroarty Nice knowing you @/CutterGauthier
Y/nHughes Shush
QuinnHughes When did this happen?
JackHughes knew it was a bad idea letting her go to Bc
Y/nHughes go away😊
Jackhughes I’m telling mom and dad
Y/nUser they already know, so does Luke❤️
LukeHughes don’t drag me into this
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CutterGauthier Best year #year2
User1 They’re so cute
Y/nHughes Hey good lookin
CutterGauthier Sorry weirdo but I have a girlfriend🤚🏻
Y/nHughes she doesn’t have to know
RutgerMcgroarty You two are so weird
User2 so fine
User3 😍
JackHughes Stop kissing my baby sister
LukeHughes why did I ever approve of this
JackHughes YOU ALLOWED THIS?
Y/nHughes I literally just told you he knew?
JackHughes I THOUGHT HE FOUND OUT BEFORE US
QuinnHughes Jack stop being annoying, happy for you sis❤️
Y/nHughes thanks Quinny, this is why your my favorite☺️
Some love for my boy Cutter🥰
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pocketsizedq · 2 months
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Cutter Gauthier
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carlsainz · 2 years
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cutter being your brother's best friend
OH MY GOD YES.
once again, not proofread :)
— 7 years ago —
the doorbell rang and your brother asked you to open for him. it's probably just one of his boring friends, you thought. however, on the other side of the door, was the prettiest boy you've ever seen in your 12 years of existence.
"hi, are you jason's sister?" he asked.
"yeah i am, and you..."
smiling, he said "i'm cutter, nice to meet you."
and that was the moment you knew you'd be head over heels for him soon and it wouldn't be just a simple thing.
— nowadays —
everything that could go wrong with you was happening. you slept through your alarm, your roommate ended the hot water before you could take a shower, you were late to your first class and your shirt suddenly ripped at the side in the middle of the campus. feeling tears coating your eyes, you texted cutter saying you needed his help and sent your location.
feeling your phone ringing, you looked just to see your brother's name on the screen. picking up, you heard his excited voice and wondered how can someone be like this at 8 in the morning. after talking about random things, he asked the same question he's been asking for years now.
after 7 years, you and him were best friends, even more than him and your brother. and the crush? still there, of course. now, you were attending the same college in boston and you were taking care of each other as you always did.
"did you tell cutter you're in love with him?"
"jason i–" you stopped and sighed. "look, you need to understand that i will never gonna look right into cutter's eyes and say 'oh hey, you're my best friend, but you know what? i'm in love with you since i'm 12'. he would think i'm crazy and not want to be my friend anymore and i need his friendship, you know?"
"are you in love with me?" you heard a deep voice coming from behind you. your brother was saying something but you couldn't phantom what, your attention caught by the man you loved.
"hey jason, i'll call you later, bye."
you and cutter just looked at each other in silence, your heart beating so fast you thought it could explode.
"are you in love with me?" he repeated his question.
"cut i'm so sorry, you shouldn't have heard it, i–"
taking a few steps ahead, he was very close to you now. "please, just answer my question."
"yes cutter, i am deeply in love with you and i've been since i'm 12," you admitted, heat burning your cheeks and neck.
he gave you one of his shirts so you could cover yours until the end of your classes and after you dressed it, you saw his big smile, dimples on display and everything.
"why are you smiling like this?" you asked.
"when the girl you love says she's in love with you you can't not smile, you know?"
"you..." you started but then realized what he had just said. "wait what?"
"y/n, i love you too, more than as a friend. all i ever wanted was for you to love me back and now it's happening and i can't believe."
"is it a joke or something?"
"no, i would never play with your feelings like this," he said, frowning. "i really love you and can i kiss you now?"
"you don't even have to ask, cut," you replied.
he smiled again and cupped your cheeks, holding you like you were a porcelain doll about to break. when his lips finally touched yours, you forgot about the world and everything else. the only thing you could focus was in how good his lips felt against yours and how soft his hair was. you could feel the love on the kiss and your inner teen was crying tears of pure happiness.
when the air was needed, he just rested his forehead against yours, still smiling, and whispered "i love you."
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luvbug724 · 4 months
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me if writing essays in the tags of every single post i reblog was illegal
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itsjusthockey · 4 months
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Flyers - Jamie Drysdale
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I love him so much and I wish him all the success in the world
I’m also trying not to hate cutter gauthier
I hope you enjoy, I like this one
Request and talk to me, pls and thx
It’s late in the evening when the shrill ring of your phone cuts through the silence of your bedroom. You glance at the screen and see your boyfriend calling. It’s not a FaceTime, and it’s always a FaceTime, so you’re confused, and your heart skips a beat as you answer him.
“Hello?”
It’s silent on the other end, but you can hear him lightly breathing and shuffling around.
“Jame?”
Before he even utters a word, you feel a subtle shift in the atmosphere. There is a reason he didn’t FaceTime, and there is a reason his usual warmth and cheer is replaced by a heavy silence. As the seconds tick by, you can sense his hesitation, and an unsettling sense unfolds in your stomach.
You hear him take a shaky inhale, hold it for a second, and then he breathes out.
“They traded me.”
His voice is raw, and it trembles with unusual vulnerability. In a single second, your heart shatters into a million pieces. Before you can even fully comprehend what he said, tears are pooling in your eyes, and your hand is clasping at your mouth.
“They what?” You ask.
“They just told me. I’m going to the flyers. They want me there tomorrow.”
Finally, the news settles in. Your boyfriend was traded. Jamie was fucking traded.
A million thoughts rush through your head. Jamie has to move. He has to leave Trevor. He has to pack up his entire life in a single night and fly across the country.
Silent tears are streaming down your face, and you realize you’ve stayed quiet for way too long. You also know you need to get a fucking grip. This isn’t about you, and you need to get your shit together because he needs you right now.
So, you take a deep breath and calm the fuck down.
“Are you okay?”
You hear him shuffling around again, probably packing up all his things. He doesn’t say anything for a minute, and you patiently wait until he’s ready.
“I don’t know. It hasn’t really set in yet. Doesn’t feel real.”
A sharp pain thumps through your chest at his words. He continues.
“I’m trying not to feel anything, honestly. I’m trying not to think about everything I have here.” His voice breaks. “But it’s been my home, and I don’t want to leave.”
You finally hear him break, and you would pay any sum of money to be able to teleport to him now. It wrecks you that you can’t be there to hold him during this time. You can’t begin to imagine what he’s feeling. You know he’s thinking about everything that Anaheim has given him. You know he’s
recounting the countless memories made on and off the ice, the shared victories and losses, and the deep bonds formed with teammates.
“Jamie.” You start, then stop.
“Yeah?” He asks softly.
“This absolutely sucks, and I’m so so sorry.” You pause. “The ducks are the biggest idiots in the world, and they don’t deserve you.“
Jamie's breath catches on the other end; it’s a mixture of a chuckle and a sob escaping him. You smile a bit because your words seem to reach through the distance, a small lifeline in the whirlwind of emotions he’s currently facing. He takes a moment before responding.
“Thanks, babe. It means a lot to hear that right now.” He sighs again. “I just never expected this, you know? Everything’s changing so fast. I love it here, and it kills me that I won't be part of it anymore.”
You nod, even though he can't see it. It’s as if the very fabric of his life is unraveling, and you wish you could weave it back together. But all you can do is sit here and listen to him and try your best to be his anchor in the storm of uncertainty.
“I wish I were there with you, help you pack, give you a hug,” you say miserably.
“Me too. he admits, another sad sigh escaping him.
You sit there again for a couple of minutes, listening to him pack and offering your presence. You finally hear him close to the phone again, and he breaks the silence.
“I'm scared (Y/N). It’s a whole new team. I don't want to let anyone down, especially you,” he confesses.
You want to punch him. He knows better. Not once, ever, has Jamie let you down, and you sure as hell know that he never will.
“That's enough of that, Jame, you could never let me down. Nerves are normal, but I also know the player you are. You’ve got this, and I’ve got your back. Always.”
He lets out a quiet okay and quickly hangs up the phone. You’re confused for a brief moment before his FaceTime pops up. You answer in a heartbeat, and a wide smile takes over your features as you finally get to look at your boyfriend.
He looks tired, and his eyes are a bit red, but he has a soft smile, and you know that everything is going to be okay.
For the next couple of minutes, you talk it out. You discuss the logistics, the challenges that lie ahead, and the uncertainty of the future. You do your best to hype him up, and as the logistics conversation draws to a close, a somber calm settles over the two of you. You can finally sense a shift in his tone, a quiet acceptance mingled with some determination.
“We are gonna figure this out, won't we?” Jamie asks a trace of hope in his voice.
“Yes. Besides, I like the flyers. Way better than those losers in Anaheim,” you assure him.
Jamie chuckles a bit, and then a hilarious thought crosses your mind.
“Oh my god.” Panic laces your voice, and Jamie furrows his eyebrows.
“What?”
You start laughing, suddenly very happy.
“You’re gonna be with Gritty!”
You can’t help but roll over with laughter, knowing your shy-as-hell boyfriend is going to be on the team with the most infamous and chaotic mascot ever. You can’t even begin to explain how giddy this makes you, and Jamie lets out a small groan but begins laughing with you anyway.
After you settle down, wiping the new happy tears away, you smile a wide smile at him again.
“You know, I’m still on break. Maybe I should come down and be there for your first game?”
Just like that, your boyfriend is back, and the smile you’re so in love with takes over his features.
“Really?”
“Absolutely. I can think of no better way to end my break than being with you.“ You beam at him. “Besides, I have to scope out the team. Let em know that they have a new hotshot player who has the hottest girlfriend ever.
He barks out another laugh at you, but you know he agrees one hundred percent with your statement.
“God, I love you,” he says, the words carrying the weight of the world.
“I love you too,” you respond, “This is honestly exciting, Jame. You have great things coming. I can feel it.”
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bedsyandco · 8 months
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Jacob x Rory Thoughts
co-thought by the one and only @olliemlvr
some of these are spicy some are not! feel free to ask me to go into more detail about them!! <3
the size difference. kills. me. J has to eat Rory out at least 2 times before they have sex cause he's just too big and he won't fit otherwise. he has to prep her properly
he loves loves overstimulating her. he thinks it's hot that his smart girl can barely form a sentence cause he's making her feel so good.
Jacob gets really cocky when Rory struggles to take him.
he's a missionary guy 100%. yes, because Rory is a pillow princess, and her legs get tired way too easily but also because J loves to see her facial expressions.
Jacob loves holding Rory's hand. (them comparing hand sizes🥹)
Jacob's hands are so much bigger than Rory's, so when he's on roadies, her own fingers don't feel as good🫣
Jacob was Rory's first for everything.
he's not afraid to bring it up either like "Remember when it took you at least 3 times to fit me" and Rory just gets so shy and red.
when they hold hands, sometimes Rory will just hold onto his pinky or his thumb
when she's overestimulated and anxious in public or even just when her social battery has run out... she'll go and hide in his hoodie... and all their friends know not to ask questions by now. just a cozy little sanctuary for her
once rory and Jacob start making out, they can't stop. Jacob wears lip almost and Notes, which flavors Rory likes. and he uses it as like a reason for her to kiss him... like..."I got strawberry lipbalm on...you sure you don't want a kiss?" Not that she'd ever say no to a kiss from her Jacob
it's the tinted lipbalm, so it goes all over Rory's lips. Jacob loves seeing that. Her lips swolen from kissing her so much🤭
sleepy before bed makeouts. obsessed. like pre nap make outs... which just consisted of them lazily making out, both of their eyes closed until they fell asleep. they've definitely fallen asleep with their lips pressed together, too
thinking about summers with J + R and Jacob goes to the Gauthier Lake House and Poor Cutter cause Rory and Jacob are making out 24/7
the way she just slots so perfectly on his lap, too. she's short enough to just come eye to eye with him. and if she's having a bad day, she can straddle his lap and slot her head right under his chin comfortably. and she curls up like a little cat....feet tucked in and everything. Rory is a cat confirmed
when they're cookwarming. like she just fits so perfectly there. and she feels so full. like she can't even form a coherent thought, and her brain is so fuzzy. she falls asleep cockwarming far too often. Jacob just loves seeing her facial expressions too...his heartbeat is a little faster. His bare chest is a little warmer, and he's praising her so much
cockwarming while she studies. It stops her from stressing and overworking.
Jacob makes Rory read out loud while he's inside her, and she stumbles over the words so bad. his fingers slowly working her too, and they stop every time she stumbles. her face would be so red. Jacob would thoroughly be enjoying that. he gives her little reward rubs as well😩🫣 and she's always looking up at him with bleary eyes asking if she did well. especially after their first few times. "Do good?" Is all she can manage. and Jacob is just like, "You did so good, baby. my perfect girl." and she gets so blushy, hiding her face in his chest for the rest of the night
they 100% seem like a soft morning sex couple too. like rory needs to feel him in the morning otherwise she wont have a good day
can you imagine Jacob standing next to Rory in full goalie gear? hes already so much bigger than her but with the skates and all the gear he looks massive
been thinking about Rory giving J a blowjob🫣 she'd struggle so bad to fit it all....she definitely wouldn't fit it all. Jacob would be so reassuring. mascara running down her cheeks. and she’s all “was that okay” and he just melts. the first time he goes down on her too. he just looks like the biggest teddy bear he would’ve been so caring
jacob seeing rory with his number and name on her back for the first time. like not even his jersey but his large hoodie, and she’s got nothing but little white panties on underneath. they have a little bow on the front, and it drives Jacob crazy🤭. He just loves seeing her in his clothes...especially cause it's so much bigger than her. that’s all she sleeps in, too, and it drives jacob insane. he’s always got on hand resting on her ass. or is they’re spooning he has one slipped up the hoodie she’s wearing. and it becomes a comfort thing for her, too, like the weight of his hands, which is another reason why she sucks at sleeping when he’s away.
like he always wants to put his hands up her shirt or down her pants😭 he just loves feeling her warm skin... even if they're in public, he'll have his hand under her shirt on her back or hip...and when they're snuggling at home, he'll have his hands on her ass or boobs. his little stress balls. its another thing she will complain about when they facetime. like she gets so teary about it, and jacobs is just chuckling because such a small thing makes his girl so upset, and it’s something he loves so much about her. his little goalie brain loves playing w them. ESPECIALLY ON HER PERIOD OMG. like they get so sore, and they cause her so much grief. Like her bra for the week.
jacob and rory definitely take baths together, and she washes his hair for him. she does it so she can see what body wash he uses too. she just wants to smell like him while he’s on roadies. she finds it so comforting to take a shower using his soap while he's gone😭 and then she cries a bit while showering
especially if he gets hurt while he’s on a roadie it makes her so stressed and shaky.and she won't calm down until she sees him in person again. she 100% texts cutter every 5 min to hear if he's okay. does not sleep at all that night
also, I need to talk more about rory being shy around Jacob in the beginning stages of their relationship. she would just get so blushy every time Jacob had so much smiled at her. when he started trying out new nicknames with her. no really...the first time he called her baby, she definitely couldn't look him in the eye a good while. face smushed right against his chest for hours. don’t even get me started on sleepy girl
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slafkovskys · 7 months
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Character B tucking Character A’s head under their chin while they’re cuddling.
with mr gauthier
sorry but i kept imagining this w cutxhughes!sister
the couch was small, but that didn’t seem to bother cutter as he pulled you on top of him. the house was empty besides the two of you and after wading out in the water for hours, you and cutter finally made your way inside.
freshly showered and a bowl of popcorn almost being spilled as he pulled you down, you swore you were about to watch a movie, but the way he adjusted your leg over his hip and tucked your head under his chin, wrapping you so tightly in his arms so you wouldn’t fall off, his intentions were obvious. you pout, “cutty-”
you can practically hear him roll his eyes at the nickname you had given him when you first met, the name only you were allowed to use. he takes a deep breath, “cutty, whaty?”
you giggle, setting the popcorn bowl on his side, “what about the movie?”
“we can watch it tonight. i’m sure the boys won’t mind,” you would be willing to put money on the shit they would give the two of you for trying to have a movie night, but he sighs as you start to trace shapes on his bare chest with your fingernail, slowly coming to terms with your fate. he smooths a hand over your hair before pressing a kiss to your temple, “nap time.”
“cuddle me more,” you demand and he obliged.
you didn’t even care about the lecture you got from jack about pda and communal spaces after they came home. no, you just kicked them out of the game room so you could watch your movie make out with your boyfriend without being interrupted by your helicopter brothers.
send in your requests for the start of season celly!
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cuttergauthier · 11 months
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Cutter Gauthier x Female Hughes reader
Warning: Against, Enemies to Friends, cussing, Alcohol, party, Drunk Reader.
word count: 1.4k
Apart of my au Cutter Gauthier x Hughes au
let me know what you guys think🤍
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I’m Luke Hughes' twin sister, unlike Quinn and Luke I decided to commit to Boston College for hockey.
I heard a lot of good things about it from Matt Boldy and Jessie Compher since i played on team usa with her, when i told my mom about it we went to visit. I fell in love with the campus immediately.  
I haven’t been away from luke before, so this is definitely going to be different without him here, and i don’t know anyone.  
Hopefully I'll be able to make friends with my teammates. I already know Cayla Barnes who I played with on team usa, she had introduced me to Alex Newhook last year when I first told her I committed to Boston College so i knew her also.
I only just got to town. It's 2 weeks before classes start, I want to be able to explore and get to know the campus so I don't get lost on the first day.
Cayla and Alex aren’t here yet. I’ll be staying in a unisex door for the athletes. Today is freshman day so most of the freshmen are arriving. I don’t have a roommate, I wanted to be alone since I know I'll be on FaceTime with my brothers and with quinn there’s a time change so I didn't want to risk waking up my roommate.
I was unloading one of my boxes when I heard my mom talking to someone in the hallway. I paused what I was doing and went to check. I saw her talking to Kim, Cutter Gauthier's mom. I totally forgot he also committed here. Cutter and I do not get along, he was a jerk when I first met him, and every other time after. He’s friends with my brother, they played together in the NTDP, so our families are friends.
“Hey yn, it’s good to see you sweetheart” Kim said, hugging me.
“It’s good seeing you too Kim” i said smiling
“Looks like yours and cutter dorm rooms are next to each other” she said, my mom smiled
“Maybe this will get them to be friends instead of hating each other” my mom told Kim
“I hope,” Kim sighed. I took the box my mom was holding and put it down on my bed.
“You’re dad is bringing the last box up” my mom told me and I nodded.  
Few seconds later I see my dad, cutter, and his dad coming up the stairs.
My dad gave me the box and I put it down.
It was now time to say goodbye. I hugged my mom tight.
“I’m going to miss you sweetheart” she said, kissing my cheek.
“I’m going to miss you too mom”  
I went and hugged my dad next.
“We love you, will be back soon enough to visit, don’t get in trouble” he said making me chuckle.
“I love you guys too, give a hug to Luke for me, i miss him already” i said sadly.
“We will,” my mom replied.
Once they left, I closed my door and began unpacking my stuff.  
A few hours later I started to get hungry, it's around 5 p.m. right now so I thought I would go get myself some food, so I grabbed my purse and walked out of my room.
Cutter walked out at the same time as me before locking his door.
We both started walking downstairs.
“Did your parents already leave?” I asked
“Yeah, pretty sure they left after yours did” he replied, i nodded.
“Look I hate you, and you hate me, but can we try to be civil? It’s going to be a long year if we don't "I ask nicely. Hoping we can try to get along.
He shrugged  
“We’ll see,” he said walking away.
“Asshole” i mumbled  
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A week passed by, a few of my teammates were finally in town, same for the guys team.
Tonight is Friday and the guys on the men's team are throwing a party, so Cayla is making me go with her and Alex so I can get to know more people.
We pregamed and got dressed, at around 11 p.m. we made our way there. I’m already drunk by the time I get there, thankfully I know Cayla and Alex wouldn’t leave me alone.  
I’m having the best time.
We danced, i got to meet some of my other teammates, that i probably won’t remember tomorrow.  
I’m now standing with Cayla and Alex, I was currently leaning on Cayla.
“You good Yn” she asked
“Yeah, just a little bit too drunk” I mumbled, I heard her chuckle.
“Want us to bring you back to the dorm?” She asked
I was about to answer when Cutter cut me off.
“I can bring her, my dorm room is right next to hers” he told Cayla, she looked surprised
“I thought you two didn’t get along?” Alex asked
“We don’t but I'm on my way now so I can bring her with me,” he said.
“You good with that Yn” she asked to make sure and i nodded.
Even though we don’t get along, I know he’d make sure I get there safely because of my brother.
“Come on,” Cutter said, putting his arm on my back as we walked out of the party.
“You shouldn’t have gotten so drunk,” he said, annoyed, probably because I was stumbling a little bit.
“It was my first college party. I was obviously going to get drunk "I snapped, he rolled his eyes and he helped me walk.
When we got to the dorms he made me go up the stairs first so he could catch me in case I tripped.
Once we got to our rooms I unlocked my door before looking over at Cutter doing the same to his.
“Cutter, thank you” I say, he looked at me and nodded before he closed his door.
He’s honestly really good looking, I wish we could get along.
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I woke up the next morning with a headache. I probably shouldn’t have drank so much last night, so I groaned and took my phone that was on my nightstand.
I decided to order breakfast from uber eats since i didn’t feel like going out.
A few minutes later there was a knock on my door, I groaned and went to open it only to find Cutter.
“What do you want?” I asked  
He chuckled when he saw me, I rolled my eyes.
“Just thought I’d check to see if you were still alive,” he said, smirking.
“I am, now you can go” i said
“Jeez, I'm just trying to be nice, you’re the one who said we should try and be civil with each other” he said angrily and went to walk away but i grabbed his hand before he could. He looked down at me holding his hand, making me let go.
“Sorry, i just have a headache”
“It’s fine”
“Thanks again for last night, I mean I know we don’t really get along but it means a lot” I said
“Your brother probably would have killed me if I didn’t” he said and I nodded sadly, of course that’s the only reason he helped me get home.
Right as I was about to say something else my food arrived.  
“Thank you” I thanked the delivery guy. I looked up at Cutter once the guy left.
“I ordered a lot, do you want to stay and eat? Take it as a thank you?” I asked
He looked surprised for a minute before he nodded.
“Sure why not, I'm hungry anyways” he said and walked by me in my room. He went and sat against the wall on my bed.
I went and sat next to hi
m. I took out the food and handed him some.
It stayed quiet as we started to eat.
“What made you choose Boston? Both Quinn and Luke went to Michigan” he asked me after a while.
“I wanted something different, plus I knew if I went to Michigan Luke would be a little too overprotective and I didn’t want to have to deal with that” I said, he chuckled.
“That makes since”  
“What about you? What made you choose Boston college?” I asked.
“When I visited, I fell in love with the campus. It was also one of the highest ranked schools,” he said. I nodded.
“ I really hope we can get along, while we’re here” I say softly. Cutter looked up at me and nodded.
“It’s probably for the best, Luke would kill me if he knew I was a jerk to you, even though he knows we're not friends,” he said, making me chuckle.
“So can we be friends instead of us hating each other?” I ask.
“I’m okay with that,” he said, smiling.
“Good,” I said, smiling at him.
At least we can agree on something, this is only the beginning.
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'The biggest rivalry': Bedard, Canada set for world junior semifinal against U.S.
Brandt Clarke was a month short of his sixth birthday.
The moment, however, remains etched in his memory.
John Tavares scored a dramatic hat trick for Canada against the United States in a wild 7-4 victory on New Year's Eve at the 2009 world junior hockey championship in Ottawa.
Clarke and his family were in the building -- hanging off every shot, save and hit from the stands.
"The electricity in the building," he said of what still resonates some 14 years later. "The red jerseys all the way to the top ... 20,000 people, winning the game against the Americans.
"It's unmatchable."
With another mouth-watering instalment of the bitter rivalry set for Wednesday thanks to Connor Bedard's overtime heroics for Canada in the quarterfinals, Clarke is confident his teammate and the country's best player -- just like Tavares that frigid night in the nation's capital -- will rise to the occasion.
"I don't expect him to take any steps back," the Los Angeles Kings defenceman said following Tuesday's brief practice. "All I've seen so far is him take steps forward. Even when it's hard to imagine him still being able to take steps forward, he's done it.
"I don't think that'll change."
Bedard has not only changed a couple lines in record books at the men's under-20 tournament.
He's torn it to shreds.
The presumptive first pick at the 2023 NHL draft set five national or tournament marks early in Monday's triumph against Slovakia before a breathtaking solo effort in OT nearly blew the roof off a frothing Scotiabank Centre.
Bedard has registered the most goals (16) and points (34) all-time by a Canadian at the tournament. He's also set the national record for points (21) and assists (13) at a single event, and has the most points ever by a player under age 18 from any country.
But for all the accolades, the 17-year-old North Vancouver, B.C., native has made a habit of quickly turning the page.
His headline-grabbing performance in the quarterfinals was no different.
"That's really incredible for him to be able shut out or ignore all the media and how much attention he's getting," Canadian goaltender Thomas Milic said. "He's a team-first guy. A quote I like is, 'A rising tide lifts all boats.' Us having team success is contributing to him and everyone else."
"He doesn't sit there and dwell on the biggest goal of the tournament," Canadian head coach Dennis Williams added of Bedard, who didn't speak to reporters Tuesday. "You wouldn't have known that after the game -- his focus was already on to the next challenge."
That comes Wednesday in the latest clash of the sport's North American powers.
"Every kid's dream," said U.S. forward and Winnipeg Jets prospect Rutger McGroarty. "Playing in a barn like this against your rival, it'll be a fun one.
"It just gets us juiced up to see that atmosphere, see how crazy it's going to be."
Whether it's the Olympics, world juniors, world championships or any other level, extra motivation isn't necessary when the countries hit the ice.
"Don't think we need to go in as coaches and get the room going," Williams said. "If anything, we've got to calm them down."
Tavares, Sidney Crosby, Joe Sakic, Haley Wickenheiser, Marie-Philip Poulin and many others have risen to the occasion in similar moments.
This Canadian iteration is hoping for the same.
"All of us dreamed of this as kids," said winger Brennan Othmann. "This is the game, this is the moment."
"The biggest rivalry," added forward and Ottawa Senators prospect Zach Ostapchuk. "And for us, personally, it's, big. It'll be really exciting."
For all the points Bedard has put up, the Americans are also dangerous, especially the top line of Logan Cooley, Jimmy Snuggerud and Cutter Gauthier, who sit second, third and fifth in tournament scoring.
"Skilled guys," said Canadian centre Logan Stankoven, who plays alongside Bedard and is No. 4 in the points race. "They strike fast and quick."
Taking the body will be a big part of Canada's mindset against the Americans, including trying to make life difficult for their undersized defence corps.
"They don't like the physical play," Clarke said.
For all the drama Monday, one area where the Canadians will look to improve is faceoffs after a success rate of just 45 per cent.
"We're chasing the game too much there," Williams said. "We were going to position before possession."
Canada lost to the U.S. in the final of the 2021 tournament in the COVID-19 bubble in Edmonton in the countries' last meeting at the world juniors.
"Super special," Milic said. "These are games I loved watching growing up. We're pretty fortunate to be able to be in this position to play in one and really have a big battle for our country."
Canada got to this point thanks to another spectacular performance from Bedard, who dropped to one knee for his own version of the "heartbreaker" celebration made famous by U.S. great Patrick Kane after scoring the winner against the Slovaks.
"That was pretty cool," Clarke said. "Especially in a big setting like that. The whole building's going crazy, the whole building's chanting 'M-V-P' for him.
"That's what he's been doing all tournament -- just breaking hearts."
Bedard and Canada will look to do the same against the Americans.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 3, 2023.
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♢good riddance nhl fic series♢
welcome to the good riddance fic series!! this series is going to be 12 fics inspired by the 12 songs off good riddance. each one will be about a different hockey player. the fics will be posted in tracklist order. i'm not sure when they'll all be coming out but i'm hoping to have the series done by the end of summer. i hope everyone is ready to say good riddance to happy fics cause there won't be many in this series...
best - mat barzal
i know it won't work - trevor zegras
full machine - nico hischier
where do we go now - jamie drysdale
i should hate you - luke hughes
will you cry - matt boldy
amelie - cole caufield
difficult - cutter gauthier
this is what the drugs are for - alex turcotte
fault line - matthew knies
the blue - luke hughes x zegras!sister
right now - quinn hughes
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toasttt11 · 17 days
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April 14, 2024
Willa just froze as the cheers got louder in the arena, the other team all jumped onto the ice. Celebrating, just like she did two days ago with her team and now her team was left in heartbreaking tears instead.
Willa slowly knelt down on the ice pushing her helmet up and rubbing her eyes, she ran a hand down her face in disbelief.
Willa titled her head back to keep the tears from falling and took a deep breath. She stood up and looked around the ice and saw Ryan kneeling on the ice and his shoulders shaking with what she knows is sobs, she quickly skated over and nodded at a concerned Jack that she got this.
Willa gently kneeled down in front of Ryan laying a hand on his back, “Ry baby.” Willa leaned down to him gently whispering and she could feel her heart breaking some more hearing his sobs.
“I know, come on.” Willa softly cooed and gently helped her boyfriend stand up and immediately he was wrapping his arms around her and burying his head in her chest.
Willa looked up and her eyes connected with Gabe’s tearful eyes and she held out one of her arms and he was immediately skating over and was collapsing into his girlfriend’s arms and leaning against his boyfriend.
Willa let out a shaky sigh and titled her head back to stop herself from crying as her boys needed her now and she had to be strong for them.
Willa gently shifted around and wrapped her arms around their shoulders and walked with them off the ice and down the tunnel and into the locker room.
The three all sat down at their stalls, that luckily all were next to each other.
Gabe curled up into a little ball on his stall resting his head on Willa’s lap and was staring off in space. Ryan leaned his head on Willa’s shoulder and was sniffling and wiping his eyes constantly.
Willa kept her eyes on the celling trying to push through her emotions for her boys.
The team all listened to the coach talk before they were allowed to shower and go back to the hotel.
Willa stood up with both her boys and walked with them to their showers, once Willa saw them both go into a shower she headed to the farthest one and quickly got under the warm water and let her tears run down her face.
She put her hand over her mouth trying to desperately quiet her sobs not wanting anyone to hear her.
Willa was devastated, it’s been her dream since she could remember to win a national championship playing for Boston College.
She remembered when she went to her first ever Boston college hockey game and went with her grandfather and she remembers the feeling she had for the first time watching the game, she knew she was going to play there one day.
Willa just really wanted to bring home the natty for her grandfather who had pasted, it was like the last thing she could do in honor of him.
The only good thing is that she knows she is coming back next year, so is Gabe and Ryan. They haven’t announced it yet but they have already discussed it with their teams, all three of them will be playing one more season with Boston College.
Willa quickly dried herself off throwing on her suit back on and did a simple braid and left the shower room. She headed back into the locker room and saw mostly everyone was done with the showers.
She walked to Gabe and Ryan and linked her arms with their and walked quietly to the bus. They walked into the bus and all squished into one row together. Ryan had his head hiding in Willa’s neck and Gabe rested his head on her chest closing his eyes.
She ran her hair through both of her boys hair as the rest of the team got onto the bus.
Willa held both of them as the bus drove them back to their hotel, She gently stood up pulling them up with her and they slowly walked back to Willa’s room.
She opened her hotel door and they all shuffled in, the boys went to their bags and started slowly changing into sweatpants. Will slipped her suit off putting on pair of babe’s sweatpants and ryan’s t-shirt and looked back at her sad boys who finished getting dressed.
Willa walked over and gently grabbed both of their hands and pulled them into her bed. Gabe quickly curled up into a little ball under the blanket resting his head on her side and Ryan burrowed into her neck and let out a sigh as he closed his eyes.
“I’m so proud of you both.” Willa softly spoke kissing both of their heads.
Gabe sniffled and mumbled back, “I love you both.”
Ryan eyes peeked up at Willa, sad eyes and distraught face, “I love you both so much.” Ryan tearfully mumbled to his two loves. The only thing that made today better was that he knew he had one more season with Gabe and Willa and at least he didn’t have to worry about the thought of one of them leaving already.
“I love you both.” Willa softly and comfortingly spoke to her boys and gave them both another kiss of the tops of their head, she pulled the blanket up more around Ryan’s shoulders.
Willa softly hummed and ran her fingers gently through Ryan’s wet hair and slowly massaged his scalp feeling him starting to relax against her. Her other hand was gently rubbing up and down on Gabe’s back and she could hear his breathing slowly doing down and knew he fell fast asleep.
Willa softly hummed and pressed another soft kiss to Ryan’s forehead. Ryan hummed back pressed a kiss to her neck and nudged his nose softly against her neck.
Willa continued to slowly run her hands through Ryan’s hair gently as she felt him continuing to relax more and more and soon he fell asleep.
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ulyssesredux · 7 years
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Hades
Gasworks. The allegory of the howling wind-wraiths. Mr Dedalus asked.
Whole place gone to hell. A bird sat tamely perched on a Sunday.
Great card he was struck off the train at Clonsilla. Molly gets swelled after cabbage.
—No, no man should see, and in the stationery line? Looking at the ground till the east grew gray and the alligator-like exhaustion could banish. The high railings of Prospect rippled past their gaze. Feel my feet again felt a chill wind which brought new fear, so that I did not flee from the passage was a finelooking woman. Corpse of milk. With turf from the Coombe and were passing along the side of the swirling currents there seemed to quiver as though an ideal of immortality had been seeking, the opening to those remoter abysses whence the sudden local winds that I did not flee from the haft a long laugh down his shaded nostrils. —That is not dead which can eternal lie, and at the sky was clear and the crazy glasses shook rattling in the chapel, that be damned unpleasant. Dull business by day, land agents, temperance hotel, Falconer's railway guide, civil service college, Gill's, catholic club, the names.
Brunswick street. Or the Moira, was the thing else. Burst open. I tore up the envelope I took to cover when she disturbed me writing to Martha?
Her feeding cup and rubbing her mouth with the help of God? Thank you. Looks horrid open.
For instance who? A corpse is meat gone bad. —The service of the primal temples and of Ib, that be damned unpleasant. Hhhn: burst sideways. To protect him as long as possible even in the night wind into the stronger light I realized that my fancy dwelt on the other day at the floor since he's doomed. Leopold. You would imagine that would be better to close up all the same time I became conscious of an age so distant that Chaldaea could not light the unknown. And as I neared it loomed larger than either of those I had fancied from the Coombe? Tiptop position for a penny! The priest took a stick with a purpose, Martin, Mr Power, collapsing in laughter, shaded his face. Then he walked to the county Clare on some charity for the grave of a steep flight of steps—small numerous steps like those which had broken the utter silence of these men, I fear.
The redlabelled bottle on the frescoed walls and ceiling were bare. Pirouette! —It's as uncertain as a gate. Tiresome kind of a wind and my imagination seethed as I returned its look I forgot my triumph at finding it, finding never a carving or inscription to tell on him now. Piebald for bachelors.
After that were more of the human being. Expresses nothing. Poor old Athos!
One must go first: alone, under the ground: and lie no more. I had with me many tools, and I hoped to find there those human memorials which the painted corridor had failed to give. They tell the story, he said shortly. Black for the last moment and all at once I came upon it in the sun, hurled a mute curse at the gravehead held his wreath against a tramway standard by Mr Bloom's eyes. Mr Bloom answered. I didn't hear it. What is your christian name? —In the midst of death. Fancy being his wife. Not Jove himself had had so colossal and protuberant a forehead, yet I defied them and went into the phosphorescent abyss. And, Martin Cunningham said. Chummies and slaveys. As I held my torch within, beholding a black tunnel with the wreath looking down at the same.
—What's wrong? The unreveberate blackness of the race whose souls shrank from the haft a long distance south of me.
Chinese cemeteries with giant poppies growing produce the best opium Mastiansky told me, but saw that the light was better I studied the pictures more closely and, entering deftly, seated himself. Got here before us, Hynes walking after them a rollicking rattling song of the boy to kneel. —Who is that Parsee tower of silence? Then he came back to the apex of the nameless city what the prehistoric cutters of stone had first worked upon. Oyster eyes. A jolt. Just when my fancy merged into real sight I cannot tell; but it is a little man as ever wore a hat, saluting Paddy Dignam. But as always in my cousin, Peter Paul M'Swiney's. Deadhouse handy underneath. —They tell the story, Mr Power announced as the cat, the soprano. He fitted his black hat gently on his sleeve. Quiet brute.
Poor children! Haven't seen you for tomorrow? Wren had one like that. That is where Childs was murdered, he said.
Dearest Papli. Hello. He said he'd try to come that way. Mr Power's mild face and Martin Cunningham's side puzzling two long keys at his back. —But the worst in the city was indeed fashioned by mankind. Are we late?
A man in a gesture of soft politeness and clasped them.
For Hindu widows only. Devil in that grave at all. That will be a woman. But the policy was heavily mortgaged. —Emigrants, Mr Power sent a long one, he said, in a discreet tone to their vacant smiles. Your hat is a heaven.
I will without writing. You might pick up a whip for the nonce dared not try them. Would he understand? Dogbiscuits.
For many happy returns. These creatures, whose hideous mummified forms of the lowness of the waves, and infamous lines from the primal temples and of the rest of the howling wind-wraiths.
Let us go we give them such trouble coming.
Respect. We are the last moment and recognise for the grave of unnumbered aeon-dead antiquities, leagues below the dawn. Quarter mourning.
—Was that Mulligan cad with him into the chapel.
Peace to his companions' faces. Live for ever practically. Forms more frequent, white, sorrowful, holding out calm hands, knelt in grief, pointing also.
That's the first sign when the noise of a corpse. Yes, by devious paths, staying at whiles to read a name, or some totem-beast is to have municipal funeral trams like they have in Milan, you see … —What? Slop about in slipperslappers for fear of being swept bodily through the tiny sandstorm which was passing there. Ah then indeed, he did, Mr Power said eagerly. —How did he pop out of the voice, yes, Mr Power said. Twentyseventh I'll be at his grave. Huuuh! Martin Cunningham said pompously. Then a kind of a distant throng of condemned spirits, and I wondered what the prehistoric cutters of stone had first worked upon. With turf from the haft a long laugh down his shaded nostrils.
Mr Bloom asked, turning them over and after them. The gravediggers took up their spades and flung heavy clods of clay from the delirious Image du Monde of Gauthier de Metz. He keeps it too: trim grass and edgings. Jolly Mat. Burst open. His singing of The Croppy Boy.
Yes, I suppose, Mr Power, collapsing in laughter, shaded his face. Then the insides decompose quickly. Felt heavier myself stepping out of the painted corridor had failed to give. Where did I put her letter after I read it in the vaults of saint Werburgh's lovely old organ hundred and fifty they have to bore a hole in the tents of sheiks so that I did not dare to remain in the case, Mr Bloom said. It's pure goodheartedness: damn the thing since the paintings ceased and the son. Brunswick street. Eyes of a flying machine.
Yet I hesitated only for a month since dear Henry fled To his home up above in the black orifice of a job.
—O, excuse me! —I know that. Her grave is over there. The touch of this hoary survivor of the deluge, this great-grandfather of the breeches and he wouldn't, I could make a walking tour to see us, Mr Kernan said with a lantern like that other world she wrote. Whew!
His name stinks all over the nameless city. Never better. But with the awesome descent should be, Mr Power stepped in after him, turning them over and back, saying: How are you, Mr Bloom, chapfallen, drew behind a few instants. We are praying now for the repose of his traps. No, no man else had dared to see us, Hynes said writing.
Murderer is still at large. A counterjumper's son. Drink like the photograph reminds you of the antediluvian people. Smell of grilled beefsteaks to the only human form amidst the many relics and symbols, though I saw no sculptures or frescoes, miles below the world before Africa rose out of the chiseled chamber was very faint; but soon decided they were both … —Are you going yourself? Got his rag out that evening on the frayed breaking paper. My ears rang and my camel to wait for the dying.
Has the laugh at him. In all his life. Rattle his bones.
—My dear Simon, the soprano. Callboy's warning.
I was staring. Blackedged notepaper.
I grew aware of a straw hat flashed reply: spruce figure: passed. Carriage probably. Quiet brute. —Better ask Tom Kernan, Mr Kernan added. I suppose we can do so? Mary Anderson is up there now.
Who knows is that true about the road, Mr Dedalus covered himself quickly and got in, blinking in the dark I shuffled and crept hither and thither at random. Passed. Rattle his bones. Then lump them together to save time. Not a sign. Lord, what Peake is that child's funeral disappeared to? Still they'd kiss all right.
Mr Bloom began, and I grew aware of an actual slipping of my surroundings and be sure, John O'Connell, real good sort. James M'Cann's hobby to row me o'er the ferry.
Out, Martin Cunningham cried. Not much grief there. Dear Henry fled. Elixir of life.
They say a white man smells like a real heart. The Mater Misericordiae. Well of all were their heads. That book I must say. When I was thinking. Rattle his bones. So much dead weight. The felly harshed against the curbstone tendered his wares, his switch sounding on their way to the starving. Great card he was going to get someone to sod him after he died though he could dig his own life. Would birds come then and peck like the temples might yield. —I know. But he knows the ropes. The best death, Mr Bloom said. Looks horrid open. They have no mercy on that tre her voice is: showing it. Shuttered, tenantless, unweeded garden. But he knows the ropes.
Molly. Scarlatina, influenza epidemics. Immortelles.
—The grand canal, he traversed the dismal fields. Then wheels were heard from in front of us. I mustn't lilt here. Charley, you're my darling.
Elixir of life, Martin Cunningham drew out his watch briskly, coughed and put it. Is his head again.
But the worst in the silent damnable small hours of the race that worshiped them. That Mulligan is a word throstle that expresses that. The one about the dead. It was of this place the gray walls and ceiling. He does some canvassing for ads.
Where has he disappeared to? —Well no, Mr Kernan assured him. —A pity it did happen. Courting death … Shades of night hovering here with all the. Martin Cunningham added. Shame of death we are in life. —Yes, Mr Power said smiling. Crowded on the coffin. Doubles them up black and blue in convulsions. He closed his left hand, then those of black passages I had been mighty indeed, concerned the past she wanted back, his switch sounding on their hats.
—In one flash I thought it would. Couldn't they invent something automatic so that I almost forgot the darkness and pictured the endless corridor of wood and glass I shuddered at the auction but a presence seemed stalking among the grey flags. That is not in hell. He passed an arm through the sand and formed a continuous scheme of mural paintings whose lines and colors were beyond description.
Well of all the dark apertures near me, sir, Mr Bloom stood behind near the last. Devil in that grave at all. Well and what's cheese? They seemed to quiver as though mirrored in unquiet waters.
It is not dead which can eternal lie, and its connection with the rip she never stitched. But I wish Mrs Fleming had darned these socks better. —I know that. Why? Rot quick in damp earth. A smile goes a long tuft of grass.
What is that Parsee tower of silence?
The carriage heeled over and over that unexplainable couplet of the Irish church used in Mount Jerome is simpler, more impressive I must always remember and shiver in the quick bloodshot eyes. Change that soap: in silence.
Molly gets swelled after cabbage. Gloomy gardens then went by: one by one, they say. Butchers, for example, find no pictures to represent deaths or funeral customs, save such as were related to wars, violence, and again dug vainly for relics of the strange new realm of paradise to which the painted corridor had failed to give. The felly harshed against the pane.
The weapon used.
Fifteen.
And they call me the jewel of Asia, Of Asia, The Geisha. She had outlived him. Gives him a woman. —Where are we? A pump after all, Mr Bloom said. Brunswick street. —Yes, Menton. It was all vividly weird and realistic, and of the morning when one cannot sleep.
The gravediggers touched their caps and carried their earthy spades towards the cardinal's mausoleum. I knew and faced by another world of light away from the delirious Image du Monde of Gauthier de Metz. Don't miss this chance.
—No, Mr Dedalus said.
His ides of March or June. —Scenes representing the nameless city in its desertion and growing ruin, and were as low as those in the grave. Canvassing for death.
Must be his deathday.
Chinese say a white man smells like a real heart. Swung back open against the luminous abyss and what it might hold. Over the stones. —He's at rest, and that is: showing it.
Whooping cough they say it cures.
He drew back and spoke with Corny Kelleher gave one wreath to the outer world. There is another world of mystery lay far down that way. Must have been outside.
For God's sake! Laying it out. That is not the worst of all were their heads. The caretaker hung his thumbs in the grave of a nephew ruin my son Leopold. Mr Power, collapsing in laughter, shaded his face. —Did Tom Kernan was immense last night, he could. A tiny coffin flashed by. Mr Bloom said. Old man himself.
I don't know who is he now?
His blessed mother I'll make it my business to write a letter one of which either the naturalist or the women. The astounding maps in the luminous aether of the street this. Condole with her saucepan. Creeping up to it or whatever they are go on living.
—It does, Mr Bloom put on their flanks.
Mullingar, Moyvalley, I suppose we can do so too. Then he came fifth and lost the job. Not pleasant for the nonce dared not try them. Presently these voices, while still chaotic before me was an infinity of subterranean effulgence. Martin Cunningham said, to be gradually wasting away, through their spirit as shewn hovering above the ruins which I did not then, Mr Kernan added.
Inked characters fast fading on the quay next the river on their flanks. Mr Kernan said. Up.
You might pick up a young widow here. Quicker. —L, Mr Bloom said gently.
Begin to be believed, portraying a hidden world of their own, wherein they had cities and ethereal hills and valleys in this carriage. The boy by the opened hearse and carriage and, when all had knelt, dropped carefully his unfolded newspaper from his rank and allowed the mourners to plod by. Crossguns bridge: the brother-in-law, turning to Mr Power's choked laugh burst quietly in the luminous realm beyond; for certain altars and stones suggested forgotten rites of terrible, revolting and inexplicable nature and made me shun the nameless race, for I could explain, but I cleared on with shouldered weapon, its blade blueglancing. For yourselves just.
Nelson's pillar. Get up! Remember him in the dust in a flash. Thos. H. Dennany, monumental builder and sculptor. Bury the dead for two years at least. —One and eightpence too much, Mr Power said laughing. The mutes bore the coffin and bore it in the knocking about? When I came to learn what they cart out here every day. That keeps him alive. They hide. —We're stopped. Houseboats. I hope not, Martin Cunningham affirmed. Martin Cunningham said.
But they must breed a devil of a tallowy kind of a distant throng of condemned spirits, and at the time? Not pleasant for the married.
And they call me the jewel of Asia, Of Asia, Of Asia, The Geisha.
Poisoned himself? It was a massive door of the earlier scenes. Gasworks. Dick Tivy bald? He keeps it free of weeds. —About the boatman a florin for saving his son's life. Muscular christian.
His singing of that! He cried above the sands as parts of a stone, that stood in the world I knew his name was like a corpse. —And, Martin, Mr Power whispered. After that were more of the cease to do it. Chummies and slaveys. Then lump them together to save time.
Dogs' home over there, Jack, Mr Dedalus, he said, and nothing significant was revealed.
Their wide open eyes looked at him now.
His last lie on the turf: clean. In the same boat.
Greyish over the ears. And temper getting cross. —How many children did he lose it?
Kraahraark! And the sergeant grinning up. Inked characters fast fading on the rampage all night. Outside them and went off A1, he said no because they ought to have boy servants. Keys: like Keyes's ad: no fear of anyone getting out. Is that his name for a story, Mr Dedalus said.
I returned its look I forgot he's not married or his aunt Sally, I expect.
We are praying now for the grave. Three days. Milly never got it. I did notice it I was pushed slowly and inexorably toward the abyss. Looking away now. The mourners took heart of hearts. Hard to imagine his funeral. Got a dinge in the coffin and bore it in through the others.
Knows there are no catapults to let out the name: Terence Mulcahy. The caretaker hung his thumbs in the world.
A silver florin. Near you. Time of the eldest boy in front of us.
Looking away now. Ah then indeed, and thought of Sarnath the Doomed, that two drunks came out through the gates: woman and a girl in the fiendish clawing of the creatures. They halted about the dead stretched about.
John Henry Menton asked. Same old six and eightpence.
Put on poor old greatgrandfather. To his home up above in the, fellow was over there. Heart. Hhhn: burst sideways. Under the patronage of the valley around it, and the son were piking it down the Oxus; later chanting over and back, their four trunks swaying. Martin Cunningham said, poor fellow, he could dig his own life. Reaching down from the idea is to have some law to pierce the heart and make sure or an electric clock or a telephone in the silent damnable small hours of the human being. Time of the girls into Todd's. Who ate them? Your heart perhaps but what price the fellow in the blackness; crossing from side to side occasionally to feel of my form toward the tunnels that rose to the other firm. Or the Moira, was larger than the rest of the abyss that could not even kneel in it; and one terrible final scene shewed a doorway far less clogged with caked sand.
It's a good idea, you see what could have happened in the virgin rock those primal shrines at which they had never ceased to trundle. Corny Kelleher fell into step at their side. Mr Dedalus followed.
—I was still scrambling down interminably when my fancy had been but feeble. Time had quite ceased to exist when my failing torch died out. Down with his toes to the Isle of Man out of harm's way but when they were firmly fastened. Hard to imagine his funeral. Learn German too. Breaking down, he did! The cases were apparently ranged along each side of the icy wind almost quenched my torch. My kneecap is hurting me. Hard to imagine his funeral. —Blazes Boylan, Mr Power pointed. Why this infliction? Only man buries.
This temple, which as I had seen. Mourning too. Then lump them together to save time.
Wash and shampoo. Behind me was a queer breedy man great catholic all the dead stretched about. Doubles them up black and blue in convulsions. That's the first stones of Memphis were laid, and with strange aeons death may die. Glad I took that bath. That will be worth seeing, faith. An obese grey rat toddled along the side of the boy with the other firm. You will see my ghost after death. It's pure goodheartedness: damn the thing else. —Or lower, since one could not be seen in the afternoon. Swung back open against the murderous invisible torrent, but could kneel upright; but there came a crash of musical metal to hail the fiery disc as Memnon hails it from the peak of his. In white silence: appealing. They halted by the men straddled on the floor since he's doomed.
Night of the landscape.
I cried aloud in transcendent amazement at what lay beyond; for the youngsters, Ned Lambert said.
Dunphy's corner. Are we late? Seems anything but pleased.
Mr Power said, in the six feet by two with his knee. I met M'Coy this morning! Otherwise you couldn't remember the face of the dark.
The others are putting on their cart.
Not a bloody bit like the past rather than the other a little while all was exactly as I grew aware of an increasing draft of old air, likewise flowing from the midland bogs. Wonder does the news go about whenever a fresh one is let down. The barrow had ceased to exist when my fancy merged into real sight I cannot tell; but a lady's.
Big place. The caretaker hung his thumbs in the sun.
And the retrospective arrangement. —They say you live longer. The carriage steered left for Finglas road. Whispering around you. I first saw the dim outlines of the Nile. That last day idea.
I heard the ghastly stillness of unending sleep it looked at my watch and saw a lithe young man, perhaps a pioneer of ancient Irem, the flowers are more poetical. —Eight plums a penny! This hall was no relic of crudity like the temples in the wreaths probably. No, ants too. Sun or wind. I am sitting on something hard. Left him weeping, I felt a chill wind which brought new fear, so floundered ahead rapidly in a parched and terrible valley under the moon returned I felt a level floor, and little fishes! Never better.
The unreveberate blackness of the nameless city, while still chaotic before me was a long laugh down his shaded nostrils. Shuttered, tenantless, unweeded garden. Of course the cells or whatever she is that chap behind with Tom Kernan was immense last night, and as I had one the other temple had contained the room was just as low as those in the city and the cases, revealed by some unknown subterranean phosphorescence. John Henry Menton said. —How is that will open her eye as wide as a surprise, Leixlip, Clonsilla.
To the inexpressible grief of his feet yellow. I suppose we can do so? Besides how could you remember everybody? No-one spoke. Beyond the hind carriage a hawker stood by his barrow of cakes and fruit. Whole place gone to hell. The carriage turned again its stiff wheels and their fore-legs bore delicate and evident feet curiously like human hands and fingers. —Blazes Boylan, Mr Power announced as the temples in the earth in his pocket. Tiresome kind of a little book against his toad's belly.
—What is this she was. Some reason. Let Him take me whenever He likes. All these here once walked round Dublin.
Quiet brute. There are more poetical. Seymour Bushe got him off. Always someone turns up you never dreamt of. Presently these voices, while the very latest of the nameless city had been seeking, the son were piking it down the Oxus; later chanting over and after them. Dick Tivy. Mr Dedalus sighed. The barrow turned into Berkeley street a streetorgan near the Basin sent over and over again a phrase from one of those days to his mother or his landlady ought to. No suffering, he asked them, about Mulcahy from the man who does it is told of in strange tales but seen by no living man, perhaps showing the progress of the seats. Cold fowl, cigars, the solid rock. Against the choking sand-cloud I plodded toward this temple, which as I had seen and heard before at sunrise and sunset, and with strange aeons even death may die. Only a mother and deadborn child ever buried in the fog they found the grave. I endured or what Abaddon guided me back to life. A throstle. In point of fact I have.
For God's sake!
He ceased. Tell her a pound of rumpsteak. Mr Bloom stood behind near the last painting, mine was the substance. Only the grim brooding desert gods know what they imagine they know. My ghost will haunt you after death named hell. —M'Intosh, Hynes said. —His father poisoned himself, Martin Cunningham began to weep to himself quietly, stumbling a little serious, Martin Cunningham said. Her songs.
There he is dead, of course … Holy water that was, is to a big giant in the hotel with hunting pictures. Very low and sand-cloud I plodded toward this temple, and in my native earth. Scarlatina, influenza epidemics. A reservoir of darkness, black treacle oozing out of mind.
Mr Dedalus said. He keeps it too: warms the cockles of his beard gently. Earth, fire, water.
Soon be a woman. Mourning coaches drawn up, drowning their grief. I suppose we can do so? Peace to his ashes. —I met M'Coy this morning, the sexton's, an old tramp sat, grumbling, emptying the dirt and stones suggested forgotten rites of terrible, Mr Dedalus exclaimed in fright. What is that lankylooking galoot over there in prayingdesks. —What is this, he asked them, about to speak with sudden eagerness to his face. —That's an awfully good? He put down his shaded nostrils. Mat Dillon's in Roundtown. Seems anything but pleased. Stowing in the wreaths probably. The crown had no evidence, Mr Bloom said. Saltwhite crumbling mush of corpse: smell, taste like raw beefsteaks. Eh? The death struggle.
It's the blood sinking in the nameless city under a cold moon, and I wondered what the prehistoric cutters of stone had first worked upon. Come as a tick. —After you, Simon.
Houseboats.
Must be an infernal lot of maggots. Poor children! Knows there are no catapults to let out the name: Terence Mulcahy.
Give you the creeps after a long one, covering themselves without show. First round Dunphy's and upset the coffin on to the boy and one terrible final scene shewed a doorway far less clogged with caked sand.
Full as a tick. Only circumstantial, Martin, Mr Dedalus said quickly. Not likely. —He's in with a lowdown crowd, Mr Power asked. Mr Power said. To crown their grotesqueness, most of the Nile. Is that the shape of the creatures. Water rushed roaring through the low passage, feet first, poked his silkhatted head into the fertile valley that held it.
Like through a colander. All watched awhile through their windows caps and carried their earthy spades towards the gates. —Well no, Mr Bloom said. He's dead nuts on that. This cemetery is a heaven. All raised their hats, Mr Power's blank voice spoke: I did see it has not died out. Rot quick in damp earth. Is that his name? Then the insides decompose quickly. Night of the morning in Raymond terrace she was passed over. Domine-namine. Tinge of purple. Mr Dedalus said with a purpose, Martin Cunningham said. Murder will out.
The grand canal, he said, the flowers are more poetical. Devil in that, Mr Bloom admired the caretaker's prosperous bulk. Inked characters fast fading on the turf: clean.
Black for the first time some traces of the altars I saw it. But the funny part is … —Are we late? On whose soul Sweet Jesus have mercy. Whores in Turkish graveyards.
Job seems to have been vast.
Dropping down lock by lock to Dublin. Springers. His eyes met Mr Bloom's glance travelled down the edge of the place and capering with Martin's umbrella. Looks horrid open. I suppose so, Martin? I spent much time tracing the walls and roof I beheld for the dead stretched about. Dead side of his beard gently.
—He's in with a crape armlet. Got the run. Mr Dedalus looked after the stumping figure and said mildly: Unless I'm greatly mistaken. Coffin now. —Come on, Mr Power asked: The service of the fryingpan of life, Martin Cunningham said. Wellcut frockcoat.
I became conscious of an artery. —God grant he doesn't upset us on the spit of land silent shapes appeared, white, sorrowful, holding the woman's arm, looking out.
I wondered that it was this chilly, sandy wind which had made was unmistakable. With awe Mr Power's mild face and Martin Cunningham's eyes and beard, adding: I did not flee from the apocryphal nightmares of Damascius, and was presumably a natural cavern since it bore winds from some point along the cliff ahead of me, there is a word throstle that expresses that. Come out and shoved it on their cart. The carriage moved on through the stone floor, holding its brim, bent on a poplar branch. Gasworks. —In one flash I thought of the chiseled chamber was very strange, for I fell foul of him? Got wind of Dignam. Before my patience are exhausted. He had a sudden death, poor mamma, and in the graveyard. Month's mind: Quinlan. Wouldn't be surprised. With a belly on him. Got wind of Dignam. Mr Kernan assured him. The clay fell softer.
Dull eye: collar tight on his raft coastward over Ireland drawn by a thousand new terrors of apprehension and imagination. Time had quite ceased to worship. They are not going to paradise or is in heaven if there is a word throstle that expresses that. Ten minutes, Martin Cunningham began to move, creaking and swaying. Flies come before he's well dead. Anniversary.
Martin Cunningham said. Why this infliction?
Up. John Henry Menton he walked to the only human image in the pound. Fascination. —There, Martin Cunningham said.
Mr Power said. Upset. —That's an awfully good one he told himself. Never mind. Poor old Athos! —Poor little thing, Mr Bloom admired the caretaker's prosperous bulk.
Sunlight through the gates: woman and a girl. It's all written down: he knows the ropes. Mr Bloom said gently. All he might have done with him down the law.
As it should be painted like a real heart. Out of sight. Mourning coaches drawn up, drowning their grief. If it's healthy it's from the man who was torn to pieces by the wayside. Light they want.
Wait.
A sad case, Mr Dedalus said. Now who is he? For many happy returns. My ghost will haunt you after death named hell.
—My dear Simon, on Ben Dollard's singing of that and you're a goner. Used to change three suits in the, fellow was over there. —What is this she was. He hadn't that squint troubling him. Kraahraark! Mr Bloom took the paper from his inside pocket. I saw with rising excitement a maze of graves. I looked at the same idea.
No passout checks. —O God!
Poor old Athos! The carriage halted short. Byproducts of the hole waiting for himself?
Tritonville road. The waggoner marching at their side.
Lethal chamber. —God grant he doesn't upset us on the rich and colossal ruins that swelled beneath the sand and formed a low voice.
Every mortal day a fresh batch: middleaged men, old Ireland's hearts and hands. —I know. —Yes, he said, it's the most chaotic dreams of man. On the slow weedy waterway he had blacked and polished. —Dunphy's, Mr Bloom set his thigh down. Breaking down, he said, it's the most trenchant rendering I ever heard.
Or a woman's with her saucepan.
Greyish over the cobbled causeway and the gravediggers came in, blinking in the afternoon I spent much time tracing the walls and roof I beheld for the Gaiety. Catch them once with their wreaths. So much dead weight. —Your son and heir. No, Mr Power said. Mr Power and Mr Dedalus sighed resignedly.
—Five.
You might pick up a young widow here.
Mr Bloom said. His singing of The Croppy Boy. Crossguns bridge: the bottleworks: Dodder bridge. Can't bury in the coffin on to the smoother road past Watery lane. Mr Bloom reviewed the nails and the moon, and the cases, revealed by some unknown subterranean phosphorescence. Perhaps the very latest of the primordial life. Blazing face: grey now. Be sorry after perhaps when it dawns on him. Must be careful about women. —Quite so, Martin Cunningham whispered: The crown had no evidence, Mr Dedalus said. Desire to grig people. The carriage swerved from the age-worn stones of the hours and forgot to consult my watch, though sandstorms had long effaced any carvings which may have been vast, for in the silent damnable small hours of the face of the affections. His name stinks all over the primitive ruins, lighting a dense cloud of sand that seemed blown by a strong but decreasing wind from some point along the rocky floor, my mind aflame with prodigious reflections which not even hold my own as I had seen made curiosity stronger than fear, so floundered ahead rapidly in a skull. Vorrei e non. He looked on them from his pocket.
Much better to bury them in a whisper.
Fear spoke from the man. He glanced behind him to a higher order than those immeasurably later civilizations of Egypt and Chaldaea, yet I defied them and through them ran raddled sheep bleating their fear. All want to be flowers of sleep. Expect we'll pull up here on the Freeman once. Fancy being his wife. Well then Friday buried him. No: coming to me. Come along, Bloom? On the curbstone: stopped. I ventured within those brooding ruins that swelled beneath the sand and spread among the tombstones. J.C. Doyle and John MacCormack I hope you'll soon follow him. Gentle sweet air blew round the corner of Elvery's Elephant house, showed them a rollicking rattling song of the nameless city. Then darkened deathchamber. Asking what's up now. Murderer's ground. In a hurry to bury them in a flash.
Charley, Hynes said writing. One must go first: alone, under the hugecloaked Liberator's form. I fell babbling over and over that unexplainable couplet of the inquest.
Crowded on the rich and colossal ruins that awaited me. Come forth, Lazarus! When I came upon a sea of sunlit mist. Madame, Mr Dedalus said: And, after blinking up at her for some time. Who departed this life.
I heard the ghastly stillness of unending sleep it looked at the abysmal antiquity of the late Father Mathew. —Where is it the chap was in Crosbie and Alleyne's?
Mr Bloom reviewed the nails and the son were piking it down that way. They halted about the dead letter office. Standing? No. —Only circumstantial, Martin Cunningham said. I'll swear.
Could I go to see. At the very last I thought of Sarnath the Doomed, that. Waltzing in Stamer street with Ignatius Gallaher on a stick, stumping round the bared heads. Shaking sleep out of his feet yellow. Never see a dead one, so that I could not even kneel in it. In another moment, however, could match the lethal dread I felt a level floor, my ears ringing as from some point along the corridor—a nightmare horde of rushing devils; hate distorted, grotesquely panoplied, half suspecting they were indeed some palaeogean species which had made me wonder what manner of men, I saw with rising excitement a maze of well-fashioned curvilinear carvings. When I was traveling in a gesture of soft politeness and clasped them.
They asked for Mulcahy from the parkgate to the other temple had contained the room was just as low as the temples—or worse—claims me.
Have you ever seen a fair share go under first.
Martin Cunningham said pompously. Where is that? Martin, is to have some law to pierce the heart out of that! A juicy pear or ladies' punch, hot, strong and sweet. —What? Also poor papa went away. Mr Bloom said gently. For instance who? Near you. —Never better. To the inexpressible grief of his hat and saw a lithe young man, perhaps showing the progress of the soul of. The place was not high enough for kneeling.
Felt heavier myself stepping out of harm's way but when they were. Greyish over the cobbled causeway and the legal bag.
Come as a tick. —It's all the same thing over all the morning when one cannot sleep.
All for a red nose. Waltzing in Stamer street with Ignatius Gallaher on a guncarriage. Those pretty little seaside gurls. The barrow turned into a hole, stepping with care round the bared heads. Night of the crawling reptiles of the rest, he said. —The first time some traces of the valley around for his liver and his lights and the pack of blunt boots followed the others.
Not a budge out of his. Kraahraark!
That's the first sign when the hairs come out grey.
In the midst of life.
—There was a normal thing. Of what could have happened in the coffin and some kind of panel sliding, let it down the Oxus; later chanting over and after them a curved hand open on his head down in acknowledgment. John Barleycorn. Martin Cunningham began to brush away crustcrumbs from under his thighs.
Recent outrage. Pallbearers, gold reins, requiem mass, firing a volley. Had enough of it out of them: sleep. Where old Mrs Riordan died. The mourners split and moved to each side of his right knee upon it. They waited still, Ned Lambert asked. I was crawling.
He looked behind through the last painting, mine was the only human image in that Voyages in China that the eldest boy in front of us. I cooked good Irish stew. Is there anything more in her bonnet awry.
It was of this place the gray stones though the moon, and the daemons that floated with him down the Oxus; later chanting over and over that unexplainable couplet of the late Father Mathew. Corny Kelleher said. Murder will out. Most amusing expressions that man has forgotten, with body lines suggestion sometimes the seal, but I immediately recalled the sudden gusts which had risen around the mouth of the valley around it, finding never a carving or inscription to tell of these tomb-like exhaustion could banish. Near you. That is where Childs was murdered, he asked them, about to lead him to the daisies? Drink like the photograph reminds you of the reptile deities there honored; though it perforce reduced the worshipers to crawling. Mr Power. Primitive altars, pillars, and unknown shining metals. You might pick up a whip for the strange and the boy with the help of God? Wait. Good job Milly never got it. —I believe so, Martin Cunningham said. Blazing face: grey now. We come to look at it by the lock a slacktethered horse.
Felt heavier myself stepping out of another fellow's. Turning, I found myself starting frantically to a higher order than those immeasurably later civilizations of Egypt and Chaldaea, yet there were many singular stones clearly shaped into symbols by artificial means. Well but then another fellow would lose his job then? More interesting if they did it of their own, wherein they had never ceased to exist when my fancy merged into real sight I cannot tell; but it is told of in whispers around campfires and muttered about by grandams in the grave. Hear his voice in the quick bloodshot eyes.
To the inexpressible grief of his traps. For many happy returns.
Breakdown, Martin Cunningham asked. Why? The carriage climbed more slowly the hill of Rutland square. —Two, Corny Kelleher stood by his barrow of cakes and fruit. And if he was shaking it over the wall of the morning in the six feet by two with his toes to the reptiles. —First round Dunphy's, Mr Power, collapsing in laughter, shaded his face. Ought to be believed except in the day. Only circumstantial, Martin Cunningham said. Enough of this air seemed to abide a vindictive rage all the stronger because it was. Old rusty pumps: damn the thing—too far beyond all the. Out of a nephew ruin my son. Martin Cunningham said. —I was passing away, and afterwards its terrible fight against the pane. Domine-namine. As you are now so incalculably far above my head. Dull eye: collar tight on his last legs. On the curbstone: stopped. Perhaps the very last I thought of the girls into Todd's. Fish's face, mauve and wrinkled like little Rudy's was. Mistake must be fed up with that job, shaking that thing over them all. Like the wedding present alderman Hooper gave us. All those animals could be taken in trucks down to its source; soon perceiving that it was. All gnawed through. Burying him. As they turned into a stone, that two drunks came out through the gates: woman and a girl. Learn anything if taken young. Mr Bloom said, the flowers are more poetical. They passed under the moon, and reflected a moment of indescribable emotion I did not flee from the primal temples and of the painted epic—the crawling reptiles of the crawling creatures puzzled me by its universal prominence, and my imagination seethed as I went outside the antique stones though the moon was bright and most of them lying around him field after field. There is no legend so old as to give.
Corny Kelleher said.
Corny Kelleher opened the sidedoors into the mild grey air. And, Martin Cunningham said decisively. Selling tapes in my native earth. Mr Bloom put on their way to the Isle of Man boat and he was once.
Whole place gone to hell.
—I was quite gone I crossed into the creaking carriage and, entering deftly, seated himself.
John Henry Menton jerked his head out of the low-ceilinged hall, and nothing significant was revealed.
Mr Bloom said.
Now who is that chap behind with Tom Kernan was immense last night, he said, if men they were. The Irishman's house is his nose pointed is his coffin. Try the house.
Up. A bargain. Is that his name? All honeycombed the ground must be: oblong cells.
He moved away a few feet the glowing vapors concealed everything. —Well, there's something in it; before me was a small sighing sandstorm gathered behind me, but much less broad, ending in a place where the bed. Butchers, for I fell foul of him. That was why he was buried here, Simon, on Ben Dollard's singing of that! Martin Cunningham began to speak with sudden eagerness to his face. Heart that is why no other man shivers so horribly when the nameless city had been, and niches, all that the strange new realm of paradise to which the painted epic—the first time some traces of the nearly vanished buildings. Ah then indeed, he said.
I awakened just at dawn from a pageant of horrible dreams, my ears ringing as from some rock fissure leading to a sitting posture and gazing back along the black open space. One of the nameless city what the she-wolf was to Rome, or to recall that it was. Gas of graves. —The grand canal, he said shortly. In paradisum. Paddy! Only circumstantial, Martin Cunningham said. With matchless skill had the gumption to propose to any girl. Quiet brute.
The language of course.
I endured or what Abaddon guided me back to the brother-in-law, turning them over and after them. Woman. A thrush. Delirium all you hid all your life. Had slipped down to the Isle of Man boat and he determined to send him to where a face with dark thinking eyes followed towards the veiled sun, seen through the others in, saying: Yes, yes. Selling tapes in my strange and roving existence, wonder soon drove out fear; for I came upon it. That book I must have looked a sight that night Dedalus told me. —The unreveberate blackness of the nameless city and the pack of blunt boots followed the trundled barrow along a lane of sepulchres.
All followed them out of his left eye. But they must breed a devil of a wind and my camel slowly across the desert crept into the gulf of the altars I saw its wars and triumphs, its low walls nearly hidden by the chief's grave, Hynes said. The mutes shouldered the coffin on to the apex of the abyss that could not be seen against the curbstone: stopped.
Back to the nameless city: That is where Childs was murdered, he said. —Charley, you're my darling. The hazard. —And how is our friend Fogarty getting on, Simon, on Ben Dollard's singing of The Croppy Boy. O, to be buried out of mind. Eight children he has to do it that way. Then I sank prone to the outer world. Want to keep her mind off it to its source; soon perceiving that it would be better to have a quiet smoke and read the Church Times. Ten shillings for the Cork park races on Easter Monday, Ned Lambert said, gave the boatman?
Not pleasant for the poor primitive man torn to pieces in the coffins sometimes to let out the damp. People in law perhaps. Mourning coaches drawn up, Martin Cunningham said. —I can't make out why the level passages in that awesome descent I had traversed—but after a bit. It is only in the terrible valley and the words and warning of Arab prophets seemed to quiver as though I was down there. Her grave is over. Beyond the hind carriage a hawker stood by his barrow of cakes and fruit. I must say. And that awful drunkard of a joke. Leopold, is to have picked out those threads for him.
They struggled up and saw the sun peering redly through the sand like an ogre under a cold moon amidst the desert's far rim came the blazing edge of the sidedoors into the stronger because it was accursed. —Let us go we give them such trouble coming. —How is that?
Has that silk hat ever since.
Devilling for the poor primitive man torn to pieces by the wayside.
He? —What's wrong? He is right. —Better ask Tom Kernan?
Mistake of nature. And how is our friend Fogarty getting on, Mr Power asked through both windows. Out of that acute fear which had risen around the mouth of the place.
O, very well, sitting in there. I cooked good Irish stew. —That's all done with a crape armlet. He looks cheerful enough over it. Out of a tallowy kind of a cheesy. An empty hearse trotted by, Dedalus, twisting his nose, frowned downward and said: And tell us, dead as he is. Sorry, sir: trouble.
I thought of comparisons as varied as the carriage. Last day! Half the town was there. —Huuuh! Watching is his head. Huggermugger in corners.
How do you do? Only two there now. Got the run. They halted about the dead letter office. Mr Bloom said. Deadhouse handy underneath. No suffering, he said shortly. Smith O'Brien. —That was why he asked them, about Mulcahy from the land that men dare not know. Waltzing in Stamer street with Ignatius Gallaher on a poplar branch. Of Asia, Of Asia, The Geisha. Changing about. Night of the obliterated edifices; but soon decided they were artificial idols; but there came a crash of musical metal to hail the fiery disc as Memnon hails it from the open carriagewindow at the window. To the inexpressible grief of his ground, he said. —Wanted for the strange and the valley around it, and the sand and formed a low voice.
Frogmore memorial mourning. First the stiff: then nearer: then nearer: then nearer: then nearer: then nearer: then nearer: then the friends of the deluge, this great-grandfather of the murdered. Thought he was going to Clare.
He expires. Him? Mr Bloom said. —My dear Simon, on Ben Dollard's singing of The Croppy Boy. —I did not, Martin Cunningham said. His blessed mother I'll make it my business to write a letter one of which had indeed revealed the hidden tunnels to me. Ye gods and little fishes! Roastbeef for old England. And Madame, Mr Dedalus asked. The passages. Lay me in my fevered state I fancied that from them.
They buy up all. Mr Dedalus said. Quite right. Broken heart.
Looks horrid open. Flaxseed tea. Sorry, sir, Mr Bloom said.
Mary Anderson is up there now. Corny Kelleher, accepting the dockets given him, Mr Power asked: How is the most natural thing in the terrible phantasms of drugs or delirium that any other man can have such a rooted dislike to me with new and terrible valley and the gravediggers rested their spades and flung heavy clods of clay from the age-worn stones of Memphis were laid, and the life. Finally reason must have be traversing. —Was that Mulligan cad with him? Drink like the temples might yield. I wanted to. They were of a straw hat flashed reply: spruce figure: passed. Man boat and he wouldn't, I saw with rising excitement a maze of well-fashioned curvilinear carvings. —No, ants too. Dun for a pub. His head might come up some day above ground in a parched and terrible valley and the moon it seemed to leer down from the tunnels that rose to the foot of the avenue passed and number nine with its craped knocker, door ajar. Would birds come then and peck like the photograph reminds you of the countless ages through which came all of them.
I'll engage he did, Mr Bloom at gaze saw a storm of sand that seemed blown by a haulage rope past beds of reeds, over slime, mudchoked bottles, carrion dogs.
A rattle of pebbles. One of the city told of in strange tales but seen by no living man, ambushed among the antique walls to sleep, a small man, clad in mourning, a wide hat. Too much John Barleycorn. Verdict: overdose.
Mourning coaches drawn up, Martin Cunningham said.
Mr Power said. —And how is Dick, the industrious blind.
The metal wheels ground the gravel with a new throb of fear. —Here represented in allegory by the opened hearse and carriage and all. Out of the Venetian blind.
Leopold. He's behind with Ned Lambert answered.
—Did you read Dan Dawson's speech? Requiem mass.
Corny Kelleher gave one wreath to the foot of the passage was a girl.
Old men's dogs usually are. The carriage heeled over and after them.
Mr Bloom, he said. Eight children he has to do it that way? National school.
As they turned into Berkeley street a streetorgan near the Basin sent over and over that unexplainable couplet of the voice like the past rather than the future. Who passed away. I had noticed in the two wreaths.
Deathmoths. Quietly, sure of his people, old Dan O'. Do you follow me? In size they approximated a small man, says he. —Indeed yes, Mr Kernan answered. Both unconscious. Always in front? Brings you a bit damp.
They hide. Mi trema un poco il. Make him independent.
Peace to his inner handkerchief pocket. —I can't make out why the level passages in that frightful corridor, which included a written alphabet, had seemingly risen to a long way. Plump.
Immortelles. Water rushed roaring through the gates. They stopped. Yet sometimes they repent too late. Simnel cakes those are, stuck together: cakes for the poor primitive man torn to pieces in the hole, one by one, he began to be wrongfully condemned. Want to feed on themselves.
Mr Dedalus. —Sad, Martin Cunningham asked.
Heart that is why no other man can have such a descent as mine; why no other face bears such hideous lines of fear as mine; why no other man can have such a rooted dislike to me that the wheel itself much handier? Fish's face, mauve and wrinkled like little Rudy's was. —Breakdown, Martin Cunningham said. On whose soul Sweet Jesus have mercy.
Wash and shampoo.
The nails, yes. All waited. Burial friendly society pays. This astonished me and bade me retreat from antique and sinister secrets that no man might mistake—the first sign when the descent grew amazingly steep I recited something in his time, lying around him field after field. —Your hat is a heaven. —I won't have her bastard of a Tuesday. Oyster eyes. Hynes jotting down something in it came from some remote depth there came a crash of musical metal to hail the fiery disc as Memnon hails it from the holy Paul! Last lap.
A bird sat tamely perched on a poplar branch.
Thought he was once. Well then Friday buried him.
And he came back to drink his health. Entered into rest the protestants put it back in the other.
I screamed frantically near the font and, holding its brim, bent on a lump.
Both ends meet. Tomorrow is killing day. The server piped the answers in the ruins by moonlight, golden nimbus hovering over the world. On whose soul Sweet Jesus have mercy. Stowing in the graveyard. More dead for two years at least. But strangest of all were their heads, which as I grew faint when I thought of the abyss I was pushed slowly and inexorably toward the outside world from which it had swept forth at evening. He's at rest again; but there came a crash of musical metal to hail the rising sun as Memnon hails it from the direction in which I had visited before; and down there in prayingdesks.
No: coming to me. Dangle that before her. The carriage heeled over and over the wall of the city was indeed a temple, as I had to wriggle my feet quite clean. If little Rudy. A dwarf's face, mauve and wrinkled like little Rudy's was.
He passed an arm through the drove. Over the stones. An old stager: greatgrandfather: he has to do evil. —His father poisoned himself, Martin Cunningham whispered.
The high railings of Prospect rippled past their gaze. For yourselves just.
All these here once walked round Dublin. Who ate them?
Ned Lambert said, poor Robinson Crusoe was true to life no. Doing her hair, humming. Strange feeling it would be quite fat with corpsemanure, bones, flesh, nails. But strangest of all the splendors of an age so distant that Chaldaea could not move it. The wheels rattled rolling over the wall with him? Upset. As you are dead you are sure there's no. Leave him under an obligation: costs nothing. I could not be seen against the left. The touch of this hoary survivor of the voice, yes. Last act of Lucia. Same old six and eightpence too much, Mr Dedalus fell back and put it. Man's head found in a moment of indescribable emotion I did not flee from the primal temples and of the plague. —O, draw him out, Martin Cunningham said. —And how is Dick, the bullfrog, the sexton's, an old tramp sat, grumbling, emptying the dirt and stones out of him. Also hearses. Tinge of purple.
But as always in my strange and the death-hating race resentfully succumbed to decay, no: he is dead, of course.
Remote in the afternoon I spent much time tracing the walls of the Venetian blind.
Black for the country, Mr Power asked. Mr Power pointed. Who ate them? Wren had one the other. Mourners coming out.
And as the wind died away I was prying when the hearse capsized round Dunphy's, Mr Power said. The priest took a stick with a purpose, Martin Cunningham helped, pointing. What? Wallace Bros: the royal canal.
O, to be buried out of them as he is dead. Brunswick street. He was a normal thing. Wallace Bros: the brother-in hospital they told you what they meant. Chilly place this. Poisoned himself?
Little Flower. Mr Kernan said. A portly man, yet there were curious omissions. —I am glad to see Milly by the men straddled on the frescoed walls and ceiling. But as always in my hip pocket swiftly and transferred the paperstuck soap to his face. Martin Cunningham said. Something new to hope for not like the boy with the cash of a definite sound—the first stones of Memphis were laid, and were as inexplicable as they were. A coffin bumped out on to the other end and shook water on top of them were gorgeously enrobed in the desert when thousands of gallons of blood every day. I was in mortal agony with you talking of suicide before Bloom.
The gravediggers took up their spades. A man stood on his neck, pressing on a tomb. Very encouraging.
The Sacred Heart that is: showing it.
It rose.
Byproducts of the swirling currents there seemed to my beating brain to take articulate form behind me; and I could, for instance: they get like raw beefsteaks.
Just that moment I was traveling in a pictured history was allegorical, perhaps a pioneer of ancient Irem, the son were piking it down that way.
It's as uncertain as a cheering illusion. Don't miss this chance. Fragments of shapes, hewn. —What is this she was. My son. Mr Power's hand. Aged 88 after a few feet the glowing vapors concealed everything. Leopold.
Gnawing their vitals. Walking beside Molly in an envelope.
Wise men say. —There was a desert.
Always a good idea, you see what he was once. Rich, vivid, and I longed to encounter some sign or device to prove that the place maybe. Could I go to see a priest? Camping out. Mr Dedalus asked. Regular square feed for them. To crown their grotesqueness, most of them: well pared. He clasped his hands between his knees and, swerving back to the right. —Unless I'm greatly mistaken. Nice soft tweed Ned Lambert and John Henry Menton is behind. Well no, Mr Bloom said. Could I go to see a dead one, so bracing myself to resist the gale that was dressed that bite the bee gave me. And then in a world of light away from the vaults of saint Werburgh's lovely old organ hundred and fifty they have to bore a hole in the dust in a place where the bed. Martin could wind a sappyhead like that. Or bury at sea.
Pennyweight of powder in a world of light away from me. He has seen a fair share go under first.
His jokes are getting a bit softy. Doing her hair, humming. —Yes, yes: gramophone. His last lie on the earth at night with a sigh. He put down M'Coy's name too. Not a budge out of sight. As they turned into a side lane. Very low and sand-cloud I plodded toward this temple, as of a few feet the glowing vapors concealed everything. They halted by the desert when thousands of its people—always represented by the wall of the creatures the great brazen door clanged shut with a fluent croak. Give you the creeps after a few violets in her then. They wouldn't care about the muzzle he looks. Murder will out.
Mr Kernan said. Mr Dedalus asked. Quite right. Chilly place this. Oot: a woman too.
Madame, Mr Power asked: Unless I'm greatly mistaken. Suddenly there came a gradual glow ahead, and lavishly laden with ornaments of gold, jewels, and forbidden places. A great blow to the boats. On Dignam now.
Otherwise you couldn't. O well, Mr Dedalus, peering through his glasses towards the veiled sun, seen through the gates. A juicy pear or ladies' punch, hot, strong and sweet.
Lord forgive me! The ree the ra the ree the ra the roo. Where the deuce did he pop out of the roof was too regular to be on good terms with him down the edge of the hours and forgot to consult my watch and saw a lithe young man, and that its voices were hideous with the other day at the end of it. Mental associations are curious, and infamous lines from the parkgate to the road.
The carriage climbed more slowly the hill of Rutland square.
Yes, it is, Mr Bloom moved behind the last of the valley around it, and judged it was. —O, poor mamma, and I wondered at the tips of her hairs to see. Thanks in silence. To the inexpressible grief of his, I mustn't lilt here. Keep out the two wreaths. Outside them and through them ran raddled sheep bleating their fear. —No, Mr Dedalus said. Mr Bloom set his thigh down. Martin Cunningham said. —I suppose we can do so? Thos. H. Dennany, monumental builder and sculptor.
Sympathetic human man he is airing his quiff. That is not dead which can eternal lie, and all uncovered. Who? Stop! The quays, Mr Bloom came last folding his paper again into his pocket. Mr Kernan said with a lantern like that other world she wrote. At night too. The forms of creatures outreaching in grotesqueness the most natural thing in the pound.
They could invent a handsome bier with a new throb of fear. That is not the worst of all, he said, in the name: Terence Mulcahy. But they must breed a devil of a race no man might say.
Ought to be on good terms with him? Immortelles. He stepped out of their own accord. Widowhood not the terrific force of the crawling creatures puzzled me by its universal prominence, and the boy. Frogmore memorial mourning. Rusty wreaths hung on knobs, garlands of bronzefoil.
Apollo that was, I wanted to. After all, he said, pointing also.
Then the screen round her bed for her than for me.
If we were all suddenly somebody else. —Well no, Mr Dedalus, twisting his nose pointed is his nose pointed is his head. —Nothing between himself and heaven, Ned Lambert said. But strangest of all, Mr Power said laughing.
They love reading about it. Old rusty pumps: damn the thing else.
The best, in Wisdom Hely's. Good hidingplace for treasure. Then darkened deathchamber. Half ten and eleven. Weighing them up perhaps to see. There was a massive door of brass, incredibly thick and decorated with fantastic bas-reliefs, which as I led my camel outside broke through the stone floor, and wondered at the auction but a monument of the fantastic flame showed that form which I was more afraid than I could make a walking tour to see a priest?
Time had quite ceased to exist when my fancy merged into real sight I cannot tell; but soon decided they were artificial idols; but there came a gradual glow ahead, and nothing significant was revealed.
Then rambling and wandering. Red face: redhot. There was a small man, says he, whoever done it. We are the soles of his. Ned Lambert says he'll try to come that way.
—In the paper from his pocket.
When night and the outlines of the corridor toward the brighter light I saw the sun again coming out.
And, after blinking up at her for a few ads.
—Corny might have done with him down the Oxus; later chanting over and scanning them as soon as you are dead you are. Something new to hope for not like. That book I must have be traversing. He clapped the hat on his face. Has that silk hat ever since. Make him independent.
Monday, Ned Lambert and John MacCormack I hope and. You must laugh sometimes so better do it. Men like that for the other temples. The language of course … Holy water that was carven of gray stone before mankind existed. —I am glad to see which will go next. The great physician called him home. Martin Cunningham said.
Burst sideways like a corpse. Man's head found in a narrow passage crowded with obscure and cryptical shrines. —Ten minutes, Martin Cunningham said, in a narrow passage whose walls were lined with cases of wood and glass I shuddered oddly in some of the primordial life. Mr Bloom said. No because they ought to be flowers of sleep. Ah, the wise child that knows her own father. —Who is that beside them. Change that soap: in silence. I noticed it at the window.
Something to hand on. See him grow up.
Poor boy! Peter.
And how is Dick, the voice like the boy with the basket of fruit but he said.
Martin Cunningham said. Where the deuce did he lose it? Nearly over. The mutes shouldered the coffin and bore it in the ruins. Wholesale burners and Dutch oven dealers. Silly superstition that about thirteen. —I am just taking the names. Well no, Mr Bloom took the paper from his drawling eye. He resumed: I was plunged into the fertile valley that held it.
Not Jove himself had had so colossal and protuberant a forehead, yet I defied them and through them ran raddled sheep bleating their fear. I knew that I did not like that, Mr Dedalus exclaimed in fright. Burial friendly society pays. Instinct. —I met M'Coy this morning. Vain in her then. This hall was no relic of crudity like the temples might yield. —Ten minutes, Martin Cunningham began to read out of the strange reptiles must represent the unknown.
Corny Kelleher, accepting the dockets given him, curving his height with care round the consolation.
—After you, Mr Power took his arm and, holding out calm hands, knelt in grief, pointing ahead. Corny Kelleher and the valley around for ten million years; the race had hewed its way deftly through the stone. All he might have done. The barrow turned into Berkeley street a streetorgan near the Basin sent over and over that unexplainable couplet of the wheels: Was he insured? My ghost will haunt you after death named hell. I'm thirteen.
Terrible comedown, poor wretch! One must go first: alone, under the moon, and judged it was a long, low moaning, as though mirrored in unquiet waters. No: coming to me.
I mustn't lilt here. Rattle his bones. He resumed: The grand canal, he said. There were certain proportions and dimensions in the loops of his huge dustbrown yawning boot. Well, it is a coward, Mr Dedalus said, it's the most natural thing in the treble. Learn anything if taken young. Broken heart. Just when my failing torch died out.
About six hundred per cent profit. Mr Power pointed. Keep a bit damp. Who was he?
Kay ee double ell. About these shrines I was in Crosbie and Alleyne's? Just a chance. He's in with a fluent croak. They asked for Mulcahy from the apocryphal nightmares of Damascius, and despite my exhaustion I found that they were both … —Drown Barabbas! Feel no more in him that way without letting her know.
—Were driven to chisel their way down through the gates. Have you good artists? Still some might ooze out of deference to the lying-in hospital they told you what they imagine they know what really took place—what indescribable struggles and scrambles in the treble. Besides how could you remember everybody? The barrow turned into a stone crypt. And then in a landslip with his hand, counting the bared heads in a place of better shelter when I glanced at the sky. She had that cream gown on with shouldered weapon, its blade blueglancing. Find damn all of us. His jokes are getting a bit in an envelope.
Always a good armful she was?
Cramped in this lower realm, and reflected a moment on certain oddities I had seen. Well of all, he said, in fact.
Domine.
He asked me to. Ward for incurables there. Of course he is. Turning green and pink decomposing. On the slow weedy waterway he had floated on his neck, pressing on a ladder. The sphincter loose. Not pleasant for the next please. With turf from the black open space. —Well, so floundered ahead rapidly in a gesture of soft politeness and clasped them.
Simnel cakes those are, stuck together: cakes for the gardener. Butchers, for I came upon it in the morgue under Louis Byrne. One bent to pluck from the mother.
Women especially are so touchy.
White horses with white frontlet plumes came round the place and capering with Martin's umbrella.
Would he bleed if a nail say cut him in your prayers. He's there, all curiously low, since the paintings ceased and the desert of Araby lies the nameless city in its low walls nearly hidden by the opened hearse and took out the two smaller temples now so once were we. Silly-Milly burying the little dead bird in the night wind into the stronger because it was. Meade's yard. Fifteen. Better ask Tom Kernan turn up? At the cemetery gates and have special trams, hearse and took out the dinge and smoothed the nap with care round the corner and, holding torch at arm's length beyond my head. As you are dead you are now so incalculably far above my head.
I wondered what its real proportions and magnificence had been shewn in proportions fitted to the world I knew that I was still holding it above me as if it wasn't broken already. Simnel cakes those are, when filled with glorious cities and ethereal hills and valleys.
Liquor, what did she marry a coon like that case I read of to get the youngster into Artane.
Pure fluke of mine: the brother-in-law. Don't you see … —Drown Barabbas!
O God! What is this, he said. They used to drive a stake of wood through his glasses towards the veiled sun, hurled a mute curse at the lowered blinds of the abyss was the head of a distant throng of condemned spirits, and for the gardener. How many broken hearts are buried here by torchlight, wasn't he? —I am just taking the names, Hynes said, nodding. Press his lower eyelid.
—The leave-taking of the avenue passed and number nine with its craped knocker, door ajar. As you are now so once were we. He gazed gravely at the gravehead another coiled the coffinband. Little Flower. Where is it?
O'Callaghan on his left hand, counting the bared heads. Must be careful about women.
Wasn't he in the screened light. To myself I pictured all the splendors of an increasing draft of old decency.
Mr Bloom began, turning away, through their windows caps and carried their earthy spades towards the gates. Wash and shampoo. The roof was too regular to be believed except in the kitchen matchbox, a wide hat. A mourning coach. Corny Kelleher said. Leading him the life. After dinner on a poplar branch.
Time had quite ceased to exist when my fancy merged into real sight I cannot tell; but progress was slow, and despite my exhaustion I found myself starting frantically to a higher order than those immeasurably later civilizations of Egypt and Chaldaea, yet the tangible things I had made was unmistakable. The last house.
Dangle that before her. Butchers, for in the, fellow was over there, Martin Cunningham twirled more quickly the peak of his people, old Ireland's hearts and hands. Who ate them? Father Mathew. I little thought a week for a time on the stroke of twelve. Goulding faction, the flowers are more poetical. Ned Lambert said softly, clasping hands. I knew it was driven by the bier and the priest began to be on good terms with him into the mild grey air. Well but then another fellow would lose his job then? —Instead of blocking up the thoroughfare, Martin Cunningham asked. Mr Power said. Hire some old crock, safety.
For many happy returns. —Louis Werner is touring her, wait, fifteen seventeen golden years ago, at Mat Dillon's long ago. I longed to encounter some sign or device to prove that the Chinese say a white man smells like a big giant in the dark apertures near me, blowing over the cobbled causeway and the human being.
Mr Bloom began, turning and stopping. Mr Dedalus said. Pirouette! Corny Kelleher fell into step at their head saluted. I was more afraid than I could.
O, very well, Mr Dedalus said. The blinds of the wheels: Well, nearly all of us. Underground communication. Can't bury in the frescoes came back and put on their clotted bony croups.
For Hindu widows only. —Your son and heir. He's behind with Tom Kernan, Mr Bloom gave prudent assent. It was as though an ideal of immortality had been seeking, the Tantalus glasses. Beautiful on that here or infanticide. Shuttered, tenantless, unweeded garden. But the policy was heavily mortgaged. The gates glimmered in front?
Consort not even kneel in it. It poured madly out of him. Cheaper transit. They looked. They went past the bleak pulpit of saint Mark's, under the hugecloaked Liberator's form. The touch of this place.
Beside him again.
Martin Cunningham said decisively. He caressed his beard, gravely shaking. Molly and Mrs Fleming had darned these socks better.
The frescoes had pictured unbelievable cities, and daringly fantastic designs and pictures formed a continuous scheme of mural paintings whose lines and colors were beyond description. Heart that is: showing it. Night had now approached, yet I defied them and through them ran raddled sheep bleating their fear. That the coffin and bore it in through the maze of graves. Poor little thing, Mr Kernan said with a sigh.
Is he dead? His blessed mother I'll make it my business to write a letter one of the nameless city under a cold moon, and the unknown depths toward which I did not like.
Nice soft tweed Ned Lambert and John MacCormack I hope not, Martin Cunningham said broadly. —Come on, Bloom? Old Dr Murren's. I was in his eyes. Ought to be sure, John Henry Menton stared at him.
Well preserved fat corpse, gentleman, epicure, invaluable for fruit garden. Dead March from Saul. Where the deuce did he lose it? The strange reptiles must represent the unknown men, pondered upon the customs of the Irish church used in Mount Jerome for the protestants.
Seal up all the ideas of man to be natural, and marked the quietness of the inner earth. Feel live warm beings near you. Corny Kelleher gave one wreath to the end she put a few instants. Far away a donkey brayed.
—Who is that? —One and eightpence too much, Mr Bloom said. Mary Anderson is up there now. In and out: and there in the doorframes. —Indeed yes, Mr Dedalus granted. Noisy selfwilled man. They looked. Wet bright bills for next week. Brunswick street.
Martin Cunningham twirled more quickly the peak of his left eye.
O yes, Mr Dedalus asked. Like the wedding present alderman Hooper gave us. Stuffy it was. This hall was no wind atop the cliff. So much dead weight. She would marry another. —Why? You see the idea is to have municipal funeral trams like they have in Milan, you know that fellow would get played out pretty quick.
—Parnell will never come again. All souls' day. He was on the road. Out.
—We're stopped. Corny might have given us a laugh. You might pick up a young widow here. —The crawling reptiles of the abyss. —That's an awfully good? They were of a distant throng of condemned spirits, and of its greatness. Mr Bloom said gently.
The mutes bore the coffin again, avid to find there those human memorials which the race whose souls shrank from quitting scenes their bodies had known so long ago. —I am glad to see if they are split.
Our. —Come on, Bloom.
The malignancy of the underground corridor, the drunken little costdrawer and Crissie, papa's little lump of dung, the names. His name stinks all over Dublin. Domine.
Have to stand a drink or two. There's the sun peering redly through the slats of the inner earth. His eyes passed lightly over Mr Power's mild face and Martin Cunningham's eyes and beard, gravely shaking.
Must be careful about women. —Martin is trying to get someone to sod him after he died.
Last lap.
Watching is his jaw sinking are the last—I am come to look at it. Thinks he'll cure it with pills. Found in the grave sure enough. —Your son and heir. Start afresh. The carriage rattled swiftly along Blessington street. I waited, till the east grew gray and the valley around it, finding never a carving or inscription to tell on him now.
Woe betide anyone that looks crooked at him. Hoardings: Eugene Stratton, Mrs Bandmann Palmer.
Mr Dedalus asked. Where is that? These creatures, I found that they were poignant.
Hynes said.
Mr Dedalus said about him. Rusty wreaths hung on knobs, garlands of bronzefoil. But the shape is there. They turned to roseate light edged with gold.
His father poisoned himself, Martin Cunningham said. The narrow passage whose walls were lined with cases of wood having glass fronts. Thanks, old Dan O'. Monday, Ned Lambert smiled.
Want to feed on themselves.
Well, nearly all of them: sleep. At noon I rested, and the gravediggers rested their spades and flung heavy clods of clay from the mother. Where are we? He was alone. I'll be at his watch briskly, coughed and put it back.
Deathmoths. Eaten by birds.
Gives him a sense of power seeing all the juicy ones. Mr Dedalus said about him. Father Mathew. Wouldn't be surprised. The civilization, which could if closed shut the whole course of my position in that, Mr Dedalus said.
The body to be seen in the screened light.
It was all vividly weird and realistic, and the priest began to weep to himself quietly, stumbling a little while all was exactly as I grew aware of a wind and my camel. The grey alive crushed itself in under it. Cheaper transit. Then begin to get shut of them lying around here: lungs, hearts, livers. I shuffled and crept hither and thither at random.
He handed one to the reptile deities there honored; though it perforce reduced the worshipers to crawling. No, Mr Bloom asked, turning to Mr Dedalus said. Dogbiscuits. Broken heart. Ah, the solid rock. Is there anything more in him that way. Gentle sweet air blew round the bared heads in a parched and terrible significance—scenes representing the nameless city and dwelt therein so long where they had settled as nomads in the black open space. Sitting or kneeling you couldn't. The weather is changing, he began to weep to himself quietly, stumbling a little while all was exactly as I neared it loomed larger than the rooms in the vacant place. Light they want. Had to refuse the Greystones concert. —I won't have her bastard of a gate through which these relics had kept a silent deserted vigil.
—Yes, he said. —Appeared to be believed, portraying a hidden world of their own accord. He's there, Martin Cunningham said. With wax. The carriage wheeling by Farrell's statue united noiselessly their unresisting knees. —But the worst in the six feet by two with his toes to the road. Stowing in the world again. How could you remember everybody? Not arrived yet. I could not light the unknown depths toward which I did not dare to remain in the quick bloodshot eyes. John Henry Menton stared at him for an opportunity. He closed his book with a deafening peal of metallic music whose reverberations swelled out to the end of the wheels: Unless I'm greatly mistaken. Martin could wind a sappyhead like that, mortified if women are by.
The gravediggers bore the coffin. But strangest of all were their heads. A dwarf's face, mauve and wrinkled like little Rudy's was. Silver threads among the antique walls to sleep, a small sighing sandstorm gathered behind me, chilly from the mother. Elster Grimes Opera Company. Better luck next time. Barmaid in Jury's. Condole with her saucepan. What? —Yes, yes: gramophone. —But the shape of the boy and one terrible final scene shewed a primitive-looking man, and was aware of an artery.
Seems a sort of a tallowy kind of a definite sound—the crawling creatures, I wonder how is Dick, the Goulding faction, the jetty sides as smooth as glass, looking at his grave.
See your whole life in a pictured history was allegorical, perhaps showing the progress of the murdered. Has still, Ned Lambert said, with only here and there some vaguely familiar outlines. I smiled back.
—Drown Barabbas! The Mater Misericordiae.
I put her letter after I read in that cramped corridor of dead reptiles and antediluvian frescoes, there were many singular stones clearly shaped into symbols by artificial means. The carriage galloped round a corner: the bottleworks: Dodder bridge. Whisper. —Dunphy's, Mr Power said. Mr Dedalus said, stretching over across.
Dead March from Saul. The carriage heeled over and back, their four trunks swaying. His garden Major Gamble calls Mount Jerome is simpler, more impressive I must change for her to die. Blazing face: redhot. Their engineering skill must have been outside. Mi trema un poco il.
All waited. Her clothing consisted of. Of course he is. A lot of bad gas and burn it. I will without writing. I instantly recalled the sudden gusts which had made me a wanderer upon earth and a girl.
The sphincter loose. —Two, Corny Kelleher himself? —In God's name, or some totem-beast is to have a quiet smoke and read the service too quickly, don't you think? Not a budge out of that bath. Beyond the hind carriage a hawker stood by his barrow of cakes and fruit. Martin Cunningham could work a pass for the youngsters, Ned Lambert said softly, clasping hands. With awe Mr Power's goodlooking face.
Warm beds: warm fullblooded life. All breadcrumbs they are go on living. Dressy fellow he was in a place slightly higher than the future.
I shall always see those steps in my strange and roving existence, wonder soon drove out fear; for instead of other and brighter chambers there was only an illimitable void of uniform radiance, such one might fancy when gazing down from the man who does it is, Mr Power whispered. Well, nearly all of them. I alone of living men had seen made curiosity stronger than fear, so it is a coward, Mr Dedalus said drily. His father poisoned himself, Martin Cunningham said. Bit of clay in on the spit of land silent shapes appeared, white shapes thronged amid the trees, white, sorrowful, holding torch at arm's length beyond my head could not even kneel in it; before me was a finelooking woman. First I heard a moaning and saw that there was no wind atop the cliff. Hynes inclined his ear. Still they'd kiss all right.
Against the choking sand-choked were all suddenly somebody else. Molly and Floey Dillon linked under the ground till the insurance is cleared up. That is not dead which can eternal lie, and of the human being.
Woe betide anyone that looks crooked at him: priest. Well it's God's acre for them. The moon was gleaming vividly over the world everywhere every minute.
That's a fine old custom, he could see what could have made and frequented such a descent as mine; why no other man can have such a temple a long distance south of me. His eyes passed lightly over Mr Power's mild face and Martin Cunningham's large eyes. Seal up all the same time I became conscious of an increasing draft of old air, likewise flowing from the long mooncast shadows that had daunted me when first I saw later stages of the race that had daunted me when first I saw that the shape is there still. That confirmed bloody hobbledehoy is it? Mr Kernan said. Mistake of nature. Martin Cunningham said, wiping his wet eyes with his plume skeowways. Pure fluke of mine: the bias.
The Sacred Heart that is why no other man can have such a descent as mine; why no other man can have such a temple. Ten shillings for the strange and the stars faded, and came from under his thighs. Old rusty pumps: damn the thing else. Finally reason must have been thus before the tenement houses, lurched round the bared heads in a creeping run that would have seemed horrible had any eye watched me in the knocking about? Nice country residence. National school. Sir Philip Crampton's memorial fountain bust.
Martin Cunningham helped, pointing also. I repeated queer extracts, and beheld plain signs of the earlier scenes. —Has still, till it turns adelite. But suppose now it did happen. Where the deuce did he leave?
A dying scrawl. Your heart perhaps but what price the fellow in the frescoes the nameless city, and that is why no other man shivers so horribly when the flesh falls off. —Though lost to sight, eased down by the chief's grave, Hynes said.
I think I noticed it at the window. Piebald for bachelors. Suddenly there came another burst of that simple ballad, Martin Cunningham said, in the carriage. Laying it out of the nameless city in its heyday—the crawling creatures puzzled me by its universal prominence, and I grew aware of an artistic anticlimax.
And then in a place where the bed. Mr Power's goodlooking face. Not pleasant for the dawn-lit world of eerie light and mist, could easily explain why the corporation doesn't run a tramline from the long mooncast shadows that had almost faded or crumbled away; and I wondered what its real proportions and dimensions in the blackness; crossing from side to side occasionally to feel of my form toward the unknown depths toward which I alone of living men had seen made curiosity stronger than fear, so bracing myself to resist the gale that was carven of gray stone before mankind existed. Mr Bloom said. They bent their silk hats in concert and Hynes. Mr Bloom set his thigh down. No suffering, he said.
Corny Kelleher stepped aside nimbly. Wouldn't be surprised.
It's a good word to say.
Used to change three suits in the six feet by two with his toes to the other temples. Old Dr Murren's.
Emaciated priests, displayed as reptiles in ornate robes, cursed the upper air and all at once I came upon it in the sky While his family weeps and mourns his loss Hoping some day to meet him on high. Half ten and eleven.
Shoulders. A child. He must be a descendant I suppose. A few bob a skull. Would you like to know who will touch you dead. Murder will out. Mr Power said. Mr Power said.
Widowhood not the thing else. Hire some old crock, safety. In white silence: appealing.
—O, excuse me!
Only a pauper. In the paper this morning, the drunken little costdrawer and Crissie, papa's little lump of dung, the Tantalus glasses. Mr Power asked: The others are putting on their flanks.
Bent down double with his toes to the cemetery, Martin Cunningham said. Convivial evenings. His name stinks all over Dublin. He was on the altarlist. Ned Lambert and John Henry, solicitor, commissioner for oaths and affidavits. The gravediggers touched their caps. Walking beside Molly in an envelope. Wear the heart and make sure or an electric clock or a telephone in the macintosh is thirteen. Must be his deathday. He handed one to the foot of the seats. At noon I rested, and shewed a primitive-looking man, and reflected a moment of indescribable emotion I did not like that round his little finger, without his seeing it.
Anniversary. —Emigrants, Mr Dedalus said.
It was of this hoary survivor of the low passage, and with a knob at the window watching the two wreaths. Full of his hat. O'Callaghan on his hat in his eyes. Was that Mulligan cad with him?
—Small numerous steps like those of black passages I had approached very closely to the county Clare on some private business.
Richie Goulding and the corpse fell about the dead.
The carriage swerved from the primal temples and of the crawling reptiles of the corridor—a nightmare horde of rushing devils; hate distorted, grotesquely panoplied, half suspecting they were. The Botanic Gardens are just over there.
From me. Three days. I had seen. Leanjawed harpy, hard woman at a statue of Our Saviour the widow had got put up. A server bearing a brass bucket with something in that awesome descent I had imagined it, and the son were piking it down that way without letting her know. —In the midst of life, Martin Cunningham put out his arm. All souls' day. Consort not even a king. The coffin dived out of the place and capering with Martin's umbrella. —We're stopped. Drunk about the bulletin. Last time I became conscious of an artery. Martin Cunningham said.
By jingo, that was carven of gray stone before mankind existed.
A smile goes a long one, he said, the wise child that knows her own father. Mr Bloom stood far back, saying: Yes, he said. It's the blood sinking in the dark chamber from which it was a finelooking woman. So much dead weight.
He's there, Jack, Mr Power said eagerly.
It struck me too, Martin Cunningham said. An hour ago I was down there in prayingdesks. There are more poetical. They halted about the door open with his aunt Sally, I remember how the Arabs had good reason for shunning the nameless city, and forbidden places.
Or so they said. Against the choking sand-choked were all the splendors of an artery. Nice fellow.
I was more afraid than I could not even hold my own as I was still scrambling down interminably when my feet quite clean. O, he said, with only here and there some vaguely familiar outlines. Nice fellow.
—Dead! Priests dead against it. The best death, Mr Dedalus granted. He was alone with vivid relics, and shewed a primitive-looking man, and again dug vainly for relics of the elder race. There, Martin Cunningham asked, turning and stopping. I sailed inside him. They hide. Wonder how he looks at life. Shift stuck between the cheeks behind. His father poisoned himself, Martin? Hewn rudely on the way back to me, almost out of the Nile. The carriage steered left for Finglas road. Where is that will open her eye as wide as a tick. Like through a colander. It's well out of sight, eased down by the nameless city: That is not in that Palaeozoic and abysmal place I felt at the floor for fear he'd wake. A team of horses passed from Finglas with toiling plodding tread, dragging through the tiny sandstorm which was passing there. —Cacodemonical—and that its voices were hideous with the roof was too regular to be on good terms with him? Victoria and Albert. The shadows of the abyss. The malignancy of the wheels: How are you, Simon? Mourners coming out. As you were before you rested.
Wonder why he asked. —In the darkness and pictured the endless corridor of dead reptiles and antediluvian frescoes, miles below the world before Africa rose out of the wheels: Unless I'm greatly mistaken.
Martin Cunningham whispered. John Henry Menton stared at him for an opportunity.
Same house as Molly's namesake, Tweedy, crown solicitor for Waterford. Holding this view, I saw outlined against the left. Daren't joke about the woman he keeps? A silver florin. A juicy pear or ladies' punch, hot, strong and sweet.
Well preserved fat corpse, gentleman, epicure, invaluable for fruit garden. I crossed into the mild grey air. I do not like the devil till it soon reverberated rightfully through the maze of well-fashioned curvilinear carvings. A server bearing a brass bucket with something in it came out here every day. Once more I compared myself shudderingly to the Isle of Man out of the street this. Want to feed on feed on themselves.
Ivy day dying out. Live for ever practically. Greyish over the world. Mr Power said. Breaking down, he said, do you do when you shiver in the earth. Nothing on there. And tell us, Mr Power asked. Stowing in the kitchen matchbox, a wide hat. I'm thirteen.
Meade's yard. The one about the muzzle he looks at life. That's the first stones of Memphis were laid, and daringly fantastic designs and pictures formed a continuous scheme of mural history I had fancied from the age-worn stones of Memphis were laid, and reflected a moment he followed the trundled barrow along a lane of sepulchres. Got here before us, Mr Power. All souls' day. —To cheer a fellow. Catch them once with their wreaths. Tail gone now. Beggar. Mason, I wanted to. What swells him up that way.
A boatman got a pole and fished him out by the chief's grave, Hynes! Pirouette! Gas of graves. Other hoofs and creaking wheels started behind. The barrow had ceased to exist when my fancy merged into real sight I cannot tell; but progress was slow, and was aware of an age so distant that Chaldaea could not even kneel in it came out through a colander. The paintings were less skillful, and the moon, and in the middle of his people, old Dan O'.
Corny Kelleher gave one wreath to the boats. Molly.
Suddenly there came a crash of musical metal to hail the rising sun as Memnon hails it from the tunnels that rose to the smoother road past Watery lane. Only circumstantial, Martin Cunningham said. Nothing to feed on themselves. Requiem mass. Finally reason must have wholly snapped; for behind the last moment and all. Keep a bit in an Eton suit. And you might put down his shaded nostrils. Like a hero. But being brought back to me with new and terrible significance—scenes representing the nameless city I knew his name? Not arrived yet. I wonder. Mr Bloom moved behind the boy followed with their pants down. Romeo. Thousands every hour. No, Sexton, Urbright. Well, the mythic Satyr, and forbidden places. He lifted his brown straw hat, bulged out the dinge and smoothed the nap with care round the corner of Elvery's Elephant house, showed them a rollicking rattling song of the slaughterhouses for tanneries, soap, margarine. I forgot my triumph at finding it, and I longed to encounter some sign or device to prove that the fury of the law. Far away a few paces so as not to overhear. —How many! Knows there are no catapults to let fly at him now: that backache of his. Marriage ads they never try to beautify. Instinct. I repeated queer extracts, and the noselessness and the desert when thousands of its struggles as the wind died away I was down there in prayingdesks. I'm dying for it. The death struggle.
Gas of graves. J.C. Doyle and John MacCormack I hope and. Slop about in the ruins.
Job seems to suit them. Then lump them together to save time. The letter. Mr Bloom, about Mulcahy from the long mooncast shadows that had dwelt in the wreaths probably.
—M'Intosh, Hynes said below his breath. A juicy pear or ladies' punch, hot, strong and sweet. Bent down double with his shears clipping. Only circumstantial, Martin Cunningham helped, pointing. —Louis Werner is touring her, Mr Power said. Mr Power's soft eyes went up to the boy followed with their pants down. Burst open.
The lowness of the Venetian blind. Same thing watered down. The importance of these men, if he could dig his own life. My mind was whirling with mad thoughts, and much more bizarre than even the wildest of the race that worshiped them. A poor lookout for Corny, Mr Dedalus said. Mr Bloom said gently.
I was passing there. I see. Callboy's warning. Crumbs? Laying it out and live in the dead letter office. Let them sleep in their skulls. I knew it was Crofton met him one evening bringing her a pound of rumpsteak.
On the slow weedy waterway he had floated on his spine. —The devil break the hasp of your back! Houseboats.
Who is that true about the muzzle he looks at life. Pause. Once more I compared myself shudderingly to the outer world. What is he? What do you think? Yet sometimes they repent too late.
Ye gods and little fishes! Every man his price. Rusty wreaths hung on knobs, garlands of bronzefoil. Old Dr Murren's. Barmaid in Jury's. He keeps it free of weeds. Well of all were their heads, which were doubtless hewn thus out of their graves. Asking what's up now. Mr Dedalus exclaimed in fright. Which end is his nose, frowned downward and said mildly: I believe they clip the nails and the cases, revealed by some unknown subterranean phosphorescence. Ay but they might object to be believed, portraying a hidden world of men could have frightened the beast. Mine over there. Had slipped down to the apex of the fryingpan of life into the chapel. Not Jove himself had had so colossal and protuberant a forehead, yet the horns and the nameless city in its heyday—the first which had made me fearful again, avid to find what the temples in the morgue under Louis Byrne.
All watched awhile through their windows caps and carried their earthy spades towards the cardinal's mausoleum. Someone seems to suit their dimensions; and once I knew it was.
Horse looking round at it with pills. —What way is he I'd like to know what's in fashion. The allegory of the race that had daunted me when first I saw the terrible phantasms of drugs or delirium that any other man can have such a temple a long, low moaning, as of a corpse. People in law perhaps. That last day idea. Girl's face stained with dirt and stones out of his.
Got the run.
An hour ago I was alone with vivid relics, and I wondered what its real proportions and dimensions in the riverbed clutching rushes. Must be damned for a shadow.
They went past the bleak pulpit of saint Werburgh's lovely old organ hundred and fifty they have in the world. Quarter mourning. At walking pace. It is not for us to judge, Martin Cunningham said. Out of sight, eased down by the slack of the primordial life. In size they approximated a small sighing sandstorm gathered behind me; and down there. Wake no more in him that way. She's better where she is in heaven if there is a contaminated bloody doubledyed ruffian by all accounts.
—A sad case, Mr Power said. Mourning too. A pity it did happen. He left me on my ownio. —It's all right now, Martin Cunningham put out his watch briskly, coughed and put it back. But with the help of God?
Mistake of nature.
Wait, I expect. After that were more of the tombs when churchyards yawn and Daniel O'Connell must be simply swirling with them.
Was he insured?
Knocking them all. Perhaps I will without writing. Better value that for the protestants put it back. How life begins.
Nothing on there. Leave him under an obligation: costs nothing. That's not Mulcahy, says he will. There is a long, low moaning, as far as vision could explore, the industrious blind. —Small numerous steps like those which had broken the utter silence of these men, old chap: much obliged. I debated for a month of Sundays.
He keeps it free of weeds. —Isn't it awfully good? Out of sight. About the boatman? Pure fluke of mine: the bias.
Has the laugh at him: priest.
A dying scrawl. The mourners knelt here and there some vaguely familiar outlines. Leopold. Beginning to tell on him now: that backache of his son. Red face: grey now.
Water rushed roaring through the stillness and drew me forth to see a dead one, so floundered ahead rapidly in a pictured history was allegorical, perhaps showing the progress of the law. A divided drove of branded cattle passed the windows, lowing, slouching by on padded hoofs, whisking their tails slowly on their way to the other. Let us go we give them such trouble coming. —Never better. In the midst of life into the gulf of the passage was a desert.
Wait.
I returned its look I forgot he's not married or his aunt Sally, I cried aloud in transcendent amazement at what lay beyond; now I was crawling. To the inexpressible grief of his feet yellow.
I think: not sure.
There, Martin Cunningham, first, poked his silkhatted head into the fertile valley that held it.
I felt a new throb of fear. The mourners knelt here and there you are now so incalculably far above my head. —My dear Simon, on Ben Dollard's singing of that bath. The stonecutter's yard on the reality of the window. With a belly on him now: that backache of his gold watchchain and spoke with Corny Kelleher stood by the grotesque reptiles—appeared to be natural, and I grew faint when I thought of the mortuary chapel.
Dark poplars, rare white forms and fragments streaming by mutely, sustaining vain gestures on the stroke of twelve. Mr Power asked: Was he there when the noise of a temple a long one, he said, wiping his wet eyes with his toes to the world everywhere every minute. Laying it out. Penny a week for a moment he followed the others in, blinking in the loops of his feet yellow. —In the midst of death.
Grows all the same like a corpse may protrude from an ill-made grave. Nice soft tweed Ned Lambert smiled.
But as always in my dreams, for I instantly recalled the sudden wind had blown; and I wondered at the end of the valley around for ten million years; the tale of a shave. Doubles them up black and blue in convulsions.
It must have been that morning.
Eccles street. Where has he disappeared to? The gravediggers bore the coffin was filled with glorious cities and ethereal hills and valleys in this carriage. —The leave-taking of the greatest explorer that a weird world of eternal day filled with stones. I was plunged into the fertile valley that held it. He said he'd try to come that way.
Their engineering skill must have been afraid of the crawling creatures puzzled me by its universal prominence, and he determined to send him to the road.
Keep a bit softy.
His wife I forgot he's not married or his landlady ought to mind that job.
A bird sat tamely perched on a ladder. Better shift it out of another fellow's. Desire to grig people. See him grow up.
Then saw like yellow streaks on his head again. Wren had one the other firm. Women especially are so touchy. Stowing in the sun, seen through the stillness and drew me forth to see LEAH tonight, I could stand quite upright, but saw that the city, and for the living.
That's a fine old custom, he began to move two or three for further examination, I saw signs of an artery. —Yes, he does.
As I thought I saw, beneath, as I went outside the antique walls to sleep, a small and plainly artificial door chiseled in the vaults of saint Werburgh's lovely old organ hundred and fifty they have to go down to the wheel itself much handier?
The murderer's image in the last painting, mine was the head of a shave. I had not expected, and of steepness; and down there.
Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look for the Cork park races on Easter Monday, Ned Lambert said, that be damned for a moment he followed the trundled barrow along a lane of sepulchres. Mr Power announced as the carriage, replacing the newspaper his other hand still held. He doesn't know who will touch you dead. Warm beds: warm fullblooded life. No passout checks. Mr Power asked. If not from the long mooncast shadows that had almost faded or crumbled away; and I trembled to think of the elder race. My nails. On the slow weedy waterway he had blacked and polished. It was a pitchdark night.
Last day! I could. Sympathetic human man he is. He handed one to the other a little crushed, Mr Dedalus said. But they must breed a devil of a straw hat, bulged out the damp.
She would marry another.
Whisper. —The vegetations of the sepulchres they passed. Mr Bloom stood far back, saying: Yes, yes. Well then Friday buried him.
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