'zébrures, éclats, fêlures et trouvailles dans le quadrillage d’un système'

'un petit rien, un bout de quelque chose, un reste devenu précieux dans la circonstance'

'Bloom will offer his coffee and bun in a revised, gentler version.'

'It is a reality of day-to-day sameness and an absence of variety—like prison—which requires, if one is to endure it, either a deadening of all the senses or a sharpening of them, so that the smallest change of mood or event can be noticed and seized on as representing something novel or meaningful.'

'avoir de la conversation'

'Reading is, after all, an act of following.'

'Close reading is a genre that turns quotations into evidence for well-crafted arguments made beautifully.'

Stardust on the audio.

'A life without speech and without action… is literally dead to the world; it has ceased to be a human life because it is no longer lived among men.'