Bullockbefriending

In Telemachus Mulligan tells Stephen, "You put your hoof in it now," and as he sets off carrying Deasy's FMD letter at the end of Nestor Stephen thinks that "Mulligan will dub me a new name: the bullockbefriending bard." From these details it would seem that, in addition to nicknaming Stephen "Kinch" and caustically calling him a "jesuit," Mulligan has for some reason decided to think of his friend as bovine. But the mythology originated with Joyce, and he did not merely peg it to his persona as an external symbolic accoutrement. Stephen has learned to think of himself in relation to cattle in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and those habits persist in Ulysses.

John Hunt 2024

Source: asthecrackerheadcrumbles.blogspot.com.