| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 31723 |
| QUOTATION: | —He’s a cultured allroundman, Bloom is, he said seriously. He’s not one of your common or garden ... you know ... There’s a touch of the artist about old Bloom. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | James Joyce (1882–1941), Irish author. Ulysses, ch. 10, “Wandering Rocks,” The Corrected Text, ed. Hans Walter Gabler, Random House (1986).
The character, Lenehan, comments on Joyce’s Odyssean prototype, Leopold Bloom. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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